Resources: Mental health for youth
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Lesson plans
Our ready-to-use lesson plans offer engaging activities to help you connect with youth on important topics.
Mental health basics (grades 5 and 6)
- Defining what is mental health, how to care for it, and who to go to when you need help
- Discussing the stigma around mental health
- Identifying people, resources, and services in the school and the community
Self-harm prevention (grades 7 and 8)
- Identifying signs of self-harming behaviours in oneself and others
- Understanding what mental health and mental illness mean
- Learning coping strategies when support is needed
- Understanding what self-harm means and clarifying misconceptions
- Discussing the stigma around mental health, with a focus on self-harm and how to help counter stigma
Suicide prevention (grades 9 and 10)
- Identifying warning signs and symptoms that could be related to mental-health concerns
- Identifying factors that enhance mental health and emotional and spiritual well-being
- Learning about available supports to youth
Suicide prevention (grades 11 and 12)
- Describing the stigmatization of mental illness and myths about people living with mental illness
- Identifying strategies to reduce stigma around mental illness, and how to support those living with mental illness
- Describing warning signs for suicide
- Identifying sources of support for those who may be contemplating suicide
To obtain one or more of these lesson plans, please email cycp_cpcj@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.
School presentations
To obtain one or more of these files, please email cycp_cpcj@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.
More resources
RCMP
Government of Canada
External sources
Getting help
- Mental health support: get help - Canada.ca
- Getting Help - CMHA National
- Kids Help Phone - I need Help Now (1-800-668-6868 or text 686868)
- First Nations and Inuit Hope for Wellness Help Line (1-855-242-3310)
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