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I'm OK! Building Resilience Through Physical Play by Publication Date: 2017eBook
Children must learn to pick themselves up, brush themselves off, and bounce back. How do you allow for the physicality required to build resilience why you are tasked with children's safety? This guide provides the tools and strategies for creating a culture of resilience, including families in the process, and keeping safety front-of-mind.
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The Medicine of Peace: Indigenous Youth Decolonizing Healing and Resisting Violence by Call Number: Fennell and IAHS STACKS E98.Y68 .A57 2017Publication Date: 2017
Transgender Children and Youth by Call Number: Fennell STACKS HQ77.9 .N43 2017Publication Date: 2017
Understanding Child and Adolescent Grief: Supporting loss and Facilitating Growth by Call Number: IAHS STACKS BF723.G75 .U53 2018Publication Date: 2018
Working with Challenging Youth by Call Number: Fennell STACKS HV1421.R53 2016Publication Date: 2016 Second Edition
Pediatric Collections: LGBTQ+: Support and Care Part 1: Combatting Stigma and Discrimination by Publication Date: 2021eBook
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Multidisciplinary research database. Covers the subjects of biology, chemistry, engineering, physics and psychology. Includes peer-reviewed, full-text articles and videos from the Associated Press.
- ERIC
Educational resource database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. Includes records for a variety of source types, including conference papers, curriculum guides, dissertations and policy papers.
- MasterFILE Elite
Multidisciplinary research database. Covers a wide range of subject areas including business, health, education, general science and multicultural issues. Includes articles, reports, reference books and an extensive image collection.
- MEDLINE (EBSCO)
Bibliographic health database. Covers life sciences, with a focus on biomedical information. Includes citations and abstracts for biomedical and health journals used by health care professionals, nurses, clinicians and researchers.
- Child and Youth Care ForumConcerned with the advancement of this field and the improvement of child care practice in a variety of day and residential settings.
Coverage: 08/01/1998 to present (Full Text Delay: 12 Months) - Journal of Youth StudiesDevoted to a theoretical & empirical understanding of young people's experiences & life contexts.
Coverage: 02/01/1998 to present (Full Text Delay: 5 months) - Journal of Youth and AdolescenceJournal of Youth and Adolescence provides a single, high-level medium of communication for psychologists, psychiatrists, biologists, criminologists, educators, and professionals in many other allied disciplines who address the subject of youth and adolescence.
Coverage: 02/01/1992 - present (Full Text Delay: 1 year)
- Ontario: Ministry of Children, Community and Social ServicesInformation on the following topics can be found: Aboriginal children and youth, Adoption, Children's aid, Early childhood, Financial help, School snacks and meals, Special needs, Youth and the law, Youth opportunities.
- Service Canada: Services for Families & ChildrenInformation about the services the Government of Canada provides for families and children can be found on this site.
- Council of Canadian Child & Youth Care AssociationsSince 1986, the Council of Canadian Child and Youth Care Associations has been the national networking organization representing child and youth care professionals in Canada through their provincial associations.
- Ontario Association of Child and Youth CareThe OACYC is dedicated to the professionalization of Child and Youth Care by providing Child and Youth Care Practitioners (CYCPs) with high ethical practice standards, advocating for recognition and growth of the profession, and by supporting the professional development of practitioners, children and youth.
- Videatives
Online streaming video collection of short videos intended for teachers and college students that support the understanding of young children. Note: Does not work on mobile devices, Chrome is the recommended browser.
- America’s Most Unwanted: LGBTQI Foster Youth in America (Video Duration 21 minutes)
This documentary explores the lives of LGBTQ youth in California's foster care system. America's Most Unwanted lends the case for more access to LGBTQ foster parenting and adoption by providing a human face to youth whose lives would have benefited from such support. - Little Treatments, Big Effects: Single-Session Interventions That Create Lasting Change (Video Duration 1 hour 16 minutes)This video seminar with Dr. Jessica Schleider introduces research on targeted, single-session interventions (SSIs) for mental health problems in youth and adults. Given their low-cost, brevity, and flexible delivery format, SSIs hold especially high potential for disseminability.
- TED Talks: The Mysterious Workings of the Adolescent Brain (Video Duration 14 minutes)In this TEDTalk, cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore compares the prefrontal cortex in adolescents to that of adults to show us how typically "teenage" behavior is caused by the growing and developing brain.
- TED Talks: Mental Health for all by Involving All (Video Duration 12 minutes)In this TEDTalk, mental health care advocate Vikram Patel outlines a highly promising solution: training members of communities to give mental health interventions, empowering ordinary people to care for others.