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RESOURCES FOR SCHOOL STAFF AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS:
MENTAL HEALTH: RELATIONSHIPS

	Getting Along: A Guide to Healthy Relationships
	John Howard Society of Manitoba, Inc.	English/French
	This workbook contains 28 lessons that provide information about what makes up healthy and unhealthy relationships, how to build healthy relationships, and how to make personal changes. Especially suited for low level readers.

	Nobody's Perfect Manitoba
	Nobody's Perfect Manitoba	English
	A program giving parents a safe place to meet others with children of the same age and with whom they share interests and concerns.

	RespectED Youth Presentations: It's Not Your Fault	Gr 7 - 10
	Canadian Red Cross	English
	This presentation explores healthy and unhealthy relationships while stressing communication and prevention skills. Legal issues and community resources are also discussed.

	RespectED Youth Presentations: What's Love got to do with it?	Gr 7 - 10
	Canadian Red Cross	English
	This presentation explores healthy and unhealthy relationships while stressing communication and prevention skills. Legal issues and community resources are also discussed.

	Teen Talk: Appreciating Diversity 1	Gr 9 - 12
	Klinic Community Health Centre	English/French
	The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the destructiveness of discrimination in society and to identify the linkages existing between different forms of discrimination.

	Teen Talk: Appreciating Diversity 2	Gr 9 - 12
	Klinic Community Health Centre	English/French
	This workshop expands on the discussion of diversity and discusses the implications of both positive and derogatory labels for the individual and for society.

	Teen Talk: Communication Skills	Gr 8 - 12
	Klinic Community Health Centre	English/French
	This workshop demonstrates passive, assertive, and aggressive styles of communication in relationships as well as appropriate methods of communicating.

	Triple P Parenting Program
		English
	Triple P is a world-renowned parenting program which promotes positive, caring relationships between parents and their children and helps parents learn effective management strategies for dealing with a variety of childhood developmental and behavioural issues. If your organization is interested in learning more or partnering with Healthy Child Manitoba on Triple P, please e-mail healthychild@gov.mb.ca.

	Canadian Council on Social Development
	Canadian Council on Social Development	English/French
	Mission is to develop and promote progressive social policies inspired by social justice, equality and the empowerment of individuals and communities.

	Kids Helping Kids: A Peer Helping and Peer Mediation Training Manual for Elementary and Middle School Teachers and Counsellors	Gr 5 - 8
	Peer Resources	English
	Available at: Peer Resources Manitoba Text Book Bureau
	This resource focuses on implementing peer support and conflict mediation training programs to help students develop personal and social management skills.

	Kids Helping Kids: Student Manual and Workbook for Elementary and Middle School Students	Gr 5 - 8
	Peer Resources	English
	Available at: Peer Resources Manitoba Text Book Bureau
	This student manual and workbook suggests learning activities for developing skills such as "helping skills," problem solving, personal and peer support planning (goal setting), and creative conflict resolution.

	Lifechoices: Relationships	Gr 9 - 10
	Pearson Education Canada	English
	Available at: Pearson Education Canada Manitoba Text Book Bureau
	Student and teacher resource exploring issues related to conflict, communication skills, violence, abuse, grief, AIDS, and divorce.

	The Stars Program: Getting Along With Others	Gr 5 - 9
	Guidance Centre - University of Toronto Press	English
	Available at: CMHA Mental Health Education Resource Centre of Manitoba (borrow) (Toll-free: 1-866-997-9918) University of Toronto Press
	Part of a six interactive workbook series designed to teach specific life skill: Learning About Anger; Learning More About Anger; Knowing Yourself; Getting Along with Others; Respecting the Rights of Others; Knowing how Drugs and Alcohol affect our Lives: Making wise Decisions.

	The Stars Program: Respecting the Rights of Others	Gr 5 - 9
	Guidance Centre - University of Toronto Press	English
	Available at: CMHA Mental Health Education Resource Centre of Manitoba (borrow) (Toll-free: 1-866-997-9918) University of Toronto Press
	Part of a six interactive workbook series designed to teach specific life skill: Learning About Anger; Learning More About Anger; Knowing Yourself; Getting Along with Others; Respecting the Rights of Others; Knowing how Drugs and Alcohol affect our Lives: Making wise Decisions.

	All About Respect	Gr 5 - 9
	Sunburst Visual Media	English
	Available at: Sunburst Visual Media
	This workshop is designed to help students think critically about the role of respect in their lives. A wide variety of scenarios, followed by thought-provoking discussion questions, challenge viewers to analyze situations and arrive at realistic definitions.

	Belonging: Self and Social Discovery for Children and Adolescents	Gr 5 - 8
	By Jayne Revencenzi and Sus Pendergast	English
	Available at: PRO-ED Online Store Local or online bookstores
	A guide for facilitating acquisition of people skills. Contains group work, games, and role plays.

	Choosing your Friends	Gr 5 - 9
	Sunburst Visual Media	English
	Available at: Educational Communications Board (workbook) Sunburst Visual Media
	This program explores why teens select the friends they do and helps them assess their choices.

	Citizenship and Personal, Social and Health Education: Grade 2-5	Gr 2 - 5
	Folens Publishing Limited	English
	Available at: Manitoba Text Book Bureau
	These student resources focuses on developing citizenship as an individual, as part of a family, and as a community. It contains a rich variety of current, colourful, and inclusive visuals and graphics (including cartoons) appropriate for Grades 2-5 students.

	Guy's Guides: Chillin': A Guy's Guide to Friendship	Gr 5 - 8
	Rosen Publishing	English
	Available at: Rosen Publishing Manitoba Text Book Bureau
	This reader-friendly student reference book addresses, from a male point of view, various aspects of making and maintaining friendships during adolescence.

	Learning Relationship Skills	Gr 5 - 9
	Sunburst Visual Media	English
	Available at: Sunburst Visual Media
	This highly effective program shows viewers how to improve relationships by: withstanding peer pressure; communicating clearly, listening actively and reading body language; acting assertively; communicating appropriately with adults; and use negotiation and compromise.

	Project REACH - Strategies for Teachers
	Project REACH	English
	This website was created to provide teachers with interventions that will help to make their classrooms positive and productive environments for learning.

	Ready-to-Use Social Skills Lessons & Activities for Grades Pre-K - K	Gr 1 - 3
	By Ruth Weltmann Begun	English
	Available at: National Professional Resources, Inc. Local or online bookstores
	These lessons are designed to help teach positive behavior skills (e.g. social skills as dealing with anger productively, setting goals, building self-confidence, dealing with prejudice) to students of all abilities.

	Ready-to-Use Social Skills Lessons & Activities for Grades 1-3	Gr 1 - 3
	By Ruth Weltmann Begun	English
	Available at: National Professional Resources, Inc. Local or online bookstores
	These lessons are designed to help teach positive behavior skills (e.g. social skills as dealing with anger productively, setting goals, building self-confidence, dealing with prejudice) to students of all abilities.

	Ready-to-Use Social Skills Lessons & Activities for Grades 4-6	Gr 4 - 6
	By Ruth Weltmann Begun	English
	Available at: National Professional Resources, Inc. Local or online bookstores
	These lessons are designed to help teach positive behavior skills (e.g. social skills as dealing with anger productively, setting goals, building self-confidence, dealing with prejudice) to students of all abilities.

	Ready-to-Use Social Skills Lessons & Activities for Grades 7-12	Gr 7 - 12
	By Ruth Weltmann Begun	English
	Available at: National Professional Resources, Inc. Local or online bookstores
	These lessons are designed to help teach positive behavior skills (e.g. social skills as dealing with anger productively, setting goals, building self-confidence, dealing with prejudice) to students of all abilities.

	Role Plays: Practice Assertive Skills
	Wellness Reproductions	English
	Available at: Guidance Channel Online CMHA Mental Health Education Resource Centre of Manitoba (borrow) (Toll-free: 1-866-997-9918)
	Activity engages students in problem-solving responses and increases assertive communication and behaviours in challenging real-life situations.

	The Love Addict, the Avoidant, and the Co-Addicted Couple
		English
	Available at: AFM William Potoroka Memorial Library (VTR/RC 569.5/.C63/L6/199-) (borrow) (Toll-free: 1-866-805-8885)
	In childhood our caregivers teach us how to be in relationships with others. If we have been neglected we tend to expect too much from others. If we have had to take care of others rather than ourselves we tend to avoid intimacy. People who have had such experiences are prone to attract one another and form co-addicted relationships. Here is a way to address such issues.

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