Healthy Relationships (Resources for Educators)

It is important that youth learn about healthy and unhealthy relationships.

As an educator, you play a key role in providing youth with knowledge and skills to support healthy relationships.

Check out the following healthy relationship resources:

Toolkits:

• Healthy Relationships Toolkit – YMCA Calgary
• Healthy Relationships Toolkit – Healthy Child Manitoba and Canadian Red Cross

Lesson Plans and Resources:

• Healthy or Unhealthy Relationships? – Grade 8 – Advocates for Youth
• Relationships & Dating – Grade 9 – Teaching Sexual Health
• Relationships – Grade 10-12 – Teaching Sexual Health
• Personal Values & Decision-Making – Grade 10-12 – Teaching Sexual Health
• Educator Guide: Healthy Relationships & Consent – Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research
• Healthy Youth Relationships – Canadian Red Cross
• Saskatoon Sexual Health: Healthy Relationships Grades 7, 8, & 9
  • Lesson Plans
  • Presentation Slides
• Saskatoon Sexual Health: Healthy Relationships Grades 5, 6, & 7
  • Lesson Plans
  • Presentation Slides
• Tips for Talking With Your Students: How to Build Healthy Relationships, Including Dating Relationships – Saskatchewan Prevention Institute
• Need Help Now: Downloadable Resources – Canadian Centre for Child Protection

Amaze Kahoots (Games and Quizzes)

• Healthy vs Unhealthy (7 Questions)
• Can you break up and still be friends? (9 Questions)
• How to get out of an Unhealthy Relationship (10 Questions)
• Social Media: Ways to Stay Healthy (9 Questions)

Amaze Videos

Services related to this information:

• Contact your Public Health Nurse:
  • Eastern Urban/Rural Zones
  • Central Zone
  • Western Zone
  • Labrador-Grenfell Zone
• 811 HealthLine (Newfoundland & Labrador) – Call 811 or 1-888-709-2929 / TTY 1-888-709-3555
  • 811 is free and confidential. 811 is available 24/7 and can provide support with mental health and addictions issues and more.
  • Services formerly offered by the Provincial Mental Health Crisis Line are now offered by 811. Call 811 to speak with a registered nurse who is also a trained crisis intervener.
• Kids Help Phone – e-mental health services 24/7 across Canada call 1-800-668-6868 or text 686868
• NL Sexual Assault Crisis and Prevention Centre – 1-800-726-2743
• 2SLGBTQIA+ Warm Line – Planned Parenthood NL call/text 1-866-230-8041
• Bridge the Gapp
  Newfoundland and Labrador’s ‘go-to’ website for mental health information. Bridge the gapp offers self-help resources, links to local services, and invites people to share their personal stories. Bridge the gapp is free of cost and available to every resident in the province. The site is divided into adult and youth sections, however many services are appropriate for both.