Semester 1:
- MADD (September)
- It is important to educate youth on the dangers of impaired driving and getting in a vehicle with an impaired driver. Youth and school programming have been a key component of MADD Canada’s youth services, education, and awareness initiatives since 1994.By educating our future generation about impaired driving, lives will be saved and injuries prevented.
- Tyler Smith (September)
- Tyler was involved in the Humboldt Broncos crash on April 6, 2018. For the weeks and months following that day, Tyler chose to suffer in silence as a deeper understanding of vulnerability and mental health was simply not there. The team at Not Alone has one ultimate goal: to help initiate those tough, meaningful conversations around mental health.
- Grade 10- McMan Presentation (October)
- The COPE Series provides education for students in grade 9-12 with a focus on teaching students about sexual exploitation, online safety and resiliency. The education series covers the following topics: What is sexual exploitation, What are the risk factors, Where can exploitation happen, What are the stages of grooming; trust, luring and payback, How to interrupt sexual exploitation, How do you maintain safety online, What is sextortion, Safety tips for popular apps used by youth, Consent and limitations, Privacy online and does it really exist, How to identify fake profiles online, Resiliency Plan, Supports that are available and how students can access them. Students will have opportunities to ask questions and participate in activities during the presentation as well as prepare a resiliency plan.
- Grade 11- CASASC Presentation (October)
- Responding with Respect (RwR) is a workshop focusing on responding respectfully to healthy and unhealthy dating relationship breakdowns. RwR focuses around a workbook of tools and tip sheets for students to keep that helps them to understand relationship breakdowns, how to end a relationship respectfully, and helping ourselves and others. We recommend the HDR 101 program be taken first, as a prerequisite.
This program covers:
What makes up a healthy dating relationship
Understanding feelings related to relationship breakdowns, anger management
Ending a relationship respectfully
How to help ourselves and others
- Grade 11 Distracted Driving Presentations (October)
- Distracted and impaired driving is one of the leading causes of serious injury or death to young drivers. This is preventable through education and encouraging our young drivers to make the correct choice. Driver inattention is involved in 80% of crashes. This can be due to the use of a phone or fatigue or impairment. In partnership with St. Joseph’s High School, Safe Communities of Central Alberta and the RCMP will be conducting a presentation on the impacts of Distracted and Impaired Driving for Grade 11 students. An education session with videos will be presented by the RCMP and will allow the students to ask questions followed by a physical demonstration of the impacts on alcohol impairment through the use of “impaired goggles.” These goggles visually impair students' visual perception. The students will be asked to perform a few sobriety tasks to help get the point across.
- Grade 10- CASASC Presentation (November)
- Healthy Dating Relationships 101 (HDR101) is an overview program highlighting the basic concepts of healthy youth dating relationships. As this program provides only an overview into dating relationships content, it is ideal to start the conversation with youth about relationship dynamics. HDR101 focuses on healthy and unhealthy dating relationships, communication and conflict resolution, sexual violence including sexting, consent and consent laws.
This program covers:
What makes up a healthy dating relationship
Clear communication and conflict resolution
Dating violence (emotional violence and physical violence)
Sexual violence and consent, consent laws, sexting
- Grade 11- Outreach Centre Suicide Awareness Presentations (November)
- This presentation offers an open discussion of protective and risk factors of suicidal behaviour, recognizing warning signs and seeking help.
Accoridng to Statistics Canada, approximately 12 people die by suicide each day and there are approximately 4500 deaths by suicide per year. Unfortunately, suicide is the second leading cause of death among youth and young adults (15-34 years) in Canada. If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, please call 9-1-1. Help is available 24/7 for suicide prevention and mental health. Here are some resources:
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- Talk Suicide Canada: 1-833-456-4566 (or text 45645 from 4pm to midnight ET)
- Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868 or text CONNECT to 686868
- Hope for Wellness Helpline for Indigenous peoples: 1-855-242-3310
- Wellness Together Canada
- Preventing suicide: Warning signs and how to help
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- Available to all students- Outreach Centre- The Stress of Tests (January)
- Addressing effective study habits, causes of test anxiety and building de-stressing skills.