Programs & Resources

Kids in the Know is the Canadian Centre for Child Protection's national safety education program. The purpose of the program is to help educators teach children and youth effective safety strategies in an engaging, age-appropriate, and interactive way that builds resiliency skills and reduces the likelihood of victimization in the online and offline world. 

Sources of Strength is a suicide prevention and mental health promotion program. This program takes a strength-based, upstream approach to preventing negative outcomes while promoting well-being, help-seeking, resilience, healthy coping, and a sense of belonging. 

The Zones of Regulation, also known as Zones, is a systematic, cognitive behavoural approach used to teach self-regulation by categorizing all the different ways we feel and states of alertness we experience into four concrete coloured zones. The Zones framework provides strategies to teach students to become more aware of their emotions/impulses, manage sensory needs, and improve problem solving conflicts. 

Thrival Kits™ is a classroom-based program to promote the mental health of students in Grade 4 to 6 across Manitoba. Thrival Kits™ are shoebox-sized kits that Grade 4, 5, and 6 students fill with small, meaningful items as they complete fun, daily practices that protect and promote their mental health and well-being throughout the school year. 

Mind Up is a classroom-based social and emotional learning program (SEL) designed to enhance self-awareness, social awareness, attention, self-regulation, problem solving, and pro-social behaviour (helping, sharing, and cooperating). 

The Circle of Courage© is a model of positive youth development based on the universal principle that to be emotionally healthy all youth need a sense of belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity. This model integrates the cultural wisdom of First Nations peoples, the heritage of early pioneers in education and youth work, and contemporary resilience research. 

Project 11 supports mental health awareness for students from an early age and aims to help them develop the understanding that they can positively influence their own mental wellness by learning skills and adopting healthy coping strategies into their lives. Project 11 is inspired by Rick Rypyen (former hockey player of the Winnipeg Jets and Manitoba Moose). 

"Canada’s tipline for reporting online child sexual abuse and exploitation... is also a place for Canadians to turn to for help with concerns about shared intimate images, online luring, and other areas involving child victimization on the internet. "

"For youth who have been targeted by the non-consensual distribution for intimate images, or experienced luring, sextortion, or other forms of online sexual violence."

"ProtectKidsOnline.ca is a one-stop website where parents/guardians of kids, tweens, and teens can get free cyber safety information from internet safety and childhood education professionals."

This program works with cities and towns to "implement a plan to first examine and then enhance safety protocols, reporting procedures, and staff training at city-run facilities to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation."

Calm Kids aims to help children develop healthy habits and coping skills by providing a space for them to track and reflect on their feelings while providing content to help children relax, focus, and sleep.

Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame is designed for children ages 2-5 and their caregivers, teaching children a three-step strategy to handle frustrations and big feelings.

Calm is a mindfulness and meditation app that helps users with sleep, anxiety, and stress. The app offers multi-day meditation programs, sleep stories, breathing exercises, mood check-ins, and soundscapes.

Smiling Mind is a mindfulness and meditation app designed for people of all ages to improve mental health and well-being. It has curated collections of content for adults, children, families, schools, and workplaces.