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RESOURCES FOR SCHOOL STAFF AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS:
MENTAL HEALTH: CONFLICT RESOLUTION

	Acting Peace: A High School Violence Prevention Educational Resource and Tool Kit	Gr 9 - 10
	YMCA-YWCA of Winnipeg	English
	Available at: Manitoba Text Book Bureau
	This resource challenges students' attitudes towards and tolerance of violence around them. It consists of a binder and a video. The binder of print materials contains detailed lessons, followed by several activity options that initiate critical thinking, group discussion, role-playing, personal reflection, and sharing of values, beliefs, and ideas regarding issues associated with violence. The 14-minute video was filmed in Manitoba schools. Sequencing in the video allows for appropriate contextual pauses for instructional purposes.

	Project Gang-Proof: A Handbook for Families and Community Members
	Manitoba Justice	English/French
	This handbook is a resource for families and communities who want to stop young people from joining or staying in street gangs.

	Solving School Problems: Solution-focused strategies for principals, teachers, and counselors
	By Nancy McConkey	English
	Available at: CMHA Mental Health Education Resource Centre of Manitoba (borrow) (Toll-free: 1-866-997-9918)
	This book will give school professionals practical, solution-focused strategies for solving problems with students and parents.

	Out on a Limb: A Guide to Getting Along
	Urban Programs Resource Network	English
	This website is designed to help teach youth how to better manage conflicts and challenges they face on a daily basis.

	Ready-To-Use Conflict Resolution Activities for Elementary Students	Gr K - 6
	By Beth Teolis	English
	Available at: Jossey-Bass Local or online bookstores
	Over 100 step-by-step lessons and illustrated activities that give students the tools and empathy they need to solve conflicts peacefully and feel like winners.

	Second Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum	Gr 5 - 8
	Committee for Children	English
	Available at: Committee for Children
	This program focus on three levels of skill, building for students in areas of empathy, problem solving, anger management, and conflict management.

	Violence Prevention: Inside Out
	By Robert Cormier	English
	Available at: AFM William Potoroka Memorial Library (VTR/BF 723/.I645/V5/200) (borrow) (Toll-free: 1-866-805-8885)
	Through narration, interviews, and dramatization, INSIDE/OUT examines the feelings inside oneself leading to and resulting from violence, and violence experienced externally in the home, school, society and environment in general. Part 1: Understanding Violence, Part 2: Preventing Violence, Part 3: Coping with violence.

	We Can Work It Out! : Conflict Resolution	Gr K - 2
	Sunburst Visual Media	English
	Available at: Sunburst Visual Media CMHA Mental Health Education Resource Centre of Manitoba (borrow) (Toll-free: 1-866-997-9918)
	This program teaches children strategies for resolving conflicts. It shows how asking questions, listening, and thinking of ways to do things differently can provide satisfying solutions.

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