New Brunswick’s Wellness Strategy Framework
A visual infographic summarizing New Brunswick’s Wellness Strategy, 2014-2021.
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On the Right Track: Guide to Mental Fitness and Resilience
A guide to help school staff and teachers promote mental fitness and resilience in schools. The objective is to produce a paradigm shift, from an intervention and prevention model, to a development and promotion one. Inspiring ideas to integrate the concepts of mental fitness and resilience in the classroom.
On the Road to Quitting
This guide will give you the information and skills you need to successfully stop smoking. This booklet will help you consider your options, understand what to expect during your quit attempt and learn tips to help you along the way.
- Author/Origin:
- Health Canada
Partners Section
The Wellness Movement provides its partners with tools to help them continue to champion The Wellness Movement in their communities, schools and workplaces. In this section, find downloadable logos for co-branding, poster templates, PowerPoint templates, a list of materials community groups can borrow from their Regional Wellness Consultant, promo items they can get to distribute at events, and other resources and tools.
- Author/Origin:
- The Wellness Movement
Passport for Life
Passport for Life is a free, online program that includes tools to help assess students’ physical literacy, guides to help teachers interpret and use the results, and resources to help teachers improve the physical literacy levels of their students.
- Author/Origin:
- Physical & Health Education Canada
Physical Activity – Active Communities Grant Program
This Program provides support for initiatives that raise awareness of the importance and enjoyment of physical activity and provide new or expanded opportunities for New Brunswickers to be active. The activity must correspond to a need identified in the “Community Health Profile” of their community.
The objectives of this grant program is to help to:
- Increase the number of opportunities available for New Brunswickers to become and stay active every day
- Encourage and support leadership in the community
- Promote the benefits and enjoyment of continued involvement in physical activity
- Address common barriers to physical activity faced by New Brunswickers
- Actively encourage those not already involved in participation to get active
Not-for profit organization, local community physical activity, sport or recreation organization and municipalities are eligible to this program. The maximum funding is $5000 per project per year. The Program is intended for initiatives that create and support opportunities to engage in physical activity and/or to promote the benefits of physical activity. It also aims to create new activities or programs, or in enhance those that already exist in the province. Examples of eligible activities may include but are not limited to: Training sessions and workshops that help increase/improve physical activity and networking opportunities and innovating partnerships within the community such as sport/recreation forums.
Positive Mental Health Toolkit
An interactive toolkit where school staff will find inspiration and advice on implementing good practices to create a school environment that encourages positive mental health and fitness.
- Author/Origin:
- Pan-Canadian Joint Consortium for Health
Quit4Life (Q4L)
This free program is organized around 4 central steps: Get Psyched, Get Smart, Get Support, Get On With It. The handbook will help you learn about why you smoke, and how to quit and not start again.
- Author/Origin:
- Health Canada
Recreation New Brunswick
A not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing the recreation and parks field by broadening the knowledge and experience base of its members and by advocating for the value and benefit of leisure and recreation opportunities for all people. The organization provides educational opportunities, offers resource materials, distributes a broad range of information through its publications, and acts as a voice for the recreation and parks movement in New Brunswick.
- Author/Origin:
- Recreation NB
School Travel Planning Toolkit
School Travel Planning is a comprehensive process designed to increase local ownership of Active & Safe Routes to School by engaging stakeholders that include school boards, municipal transportation planners and engineers, public health, police, parents, students and school staff. School Travel Planning undertakes research to assess the barriers to active school travel and uses this knowledge to develop and implement action plans.
- Author/Origin:
- Active and Safe Routes to School