Healthy Minds for Healthy Children

HIGH FIVE^® Healthy Minds for Healthy Children is a 1-hour online training and downloadable resource to help those working with children positively influence their mental health. The training builds on the HIGH FIVE Principles of Healthy Child Development with expert content from Dr. Stanley Kutcher and Dr. Wayne Hammond. The training provides engagement strategies for nurturing resiliency in children and offers insights into common mental health distress or disorders that children could be experiencing.

Learner Outcomes

At the completion of this training, learners will be able to:

• Use engagement strategies with children who may be suffering from mental health conditions
• Use a Strength Based Decision Making Model to engage children
• Communicate with children and parents about sensitive topics

Duration: 1-hour

This training is available complimentary only after completing HIGH FIVE Principles of Healthy Child Development or HIGH FIVE Sport

Pre-Requisite: Now offered to anyone who might be working with children

Audience: Program Leaders, Lifeguards, Coaches, Instructors, Counsellors, Managers, Supervisors, Educators

National Coaches Certification Professional Development Points (NCCP) – 1 point

Training participants who have completed PHCD or HIGH FIVE Sport training can access Healthy Minds for Healthy Children through the following steps:

1. Go to www.HIGHFIVE.org  
2. Log into the Database (if you do not have Login and Password, you can email your Authorized Provider to get a new Login and Password)
3. Once logged in, go to ‘Person’ tab followed by ‘View my Profile’ tab
   Select the ‘Training’ tab 
4. Under ‘Available Training’ you should see your training, click on ‘Take the Training’
5. You will be re-directed to ‘My Learning’ platform, click on ‘HIGH FIVE’, followed by ‘My Courses’, then select your training

If you have any questions, you can email us at info@HIGHFIVE.org

Further learning

1. Resiliency and Recreation: Substantiates the foundation on which HIGH FIVE is based, specifically that as the role of A Caring Adult and Friends increases, so does resiliency in children
2. Healthy Minds in Active Bodies: A Resource of the Canadian Active After School Partnership: Provides information regarding the links between participation in quality, active after school programs and children and youth’s mental health

“Our children and youth are often excluded from recreational activities due to their mental health challenges and we are thrilled to see training like HIGH FIVE® Healthy Minds for Healthy Children that will provide information that can hopefully enhance our children’s ability to participate once again in sports and recreation programs.” 

Keli Anderson Executive Director, The F.O.R.C.E. Society for Kids' Mental Health