What Is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is the ability to fully engaged in the present moment. At that moment, you are aware of your thoughts and feelings. In that same moment, you have the ability to uncover and accept different [...]
YouthSMART: Fact or Fiction
With the support of Sagium and Kinsted Wealth, YouthSMART.ca has the opportunity to expand it’s youth-based content to great lengths reaching even more viewers across the country. Other than just being a resourceful website, the YouthSMART initiative aims [...]
What Is Resiliency?
We hear the word "resilient" being used a lot, especially when talking about recent events. But what does it actually mean? What Is Resiliency? Resilience is the ability to recover from difficult times. Being resilient [...]
How To Handle Zoom Fatigue
How To Handle Zoom Fatigue The term Zoom fatigue has become quite a popular term for the mental and physical exhaustion that follows video conferencing, specifically on the Zoom platform. Zoom spiked in popularity throughout the [...]
Language Matters
Words matter. Words have the power to inspire, motivate and raise people up, but they also have the weight to negatively impact someone—even if it's unintentional. As communities and cultures continue to shift, and others [...]
February 24 Is Pink Shirt Day 2021
How Did Pink Shirt Day Start? CKNW Kids' Fund's Pink Shirt Day aims to raise awareness of bullying issues, as well as raise funds to support programs that foster children’s healthy self-esteem. On [...]
How To Identify Trusted Adults
Opening Up to a Trusted Adult Taking the first step and opening up to someone about your struggles can induce feelings of anxiety and fear. Opening up about what you're feeling could have been widely [...]
Mental Health Matters To Marshall Springs
The Grade 7 students from Marshall Springs School - CBE chose CMHA Calgary as their charity of choice to support this past holiday season. Through a candy drive, they raised $800 for our programs [...]
How To Find Youth Peer Support
Although it's a brand new year, we are still living in the midst of a pandemic that restricts who we can be around and where we can go. As it has the past 10 months, [...]
Speak Up, Speak Out About Mental Health
CMHA Calgary Youth Educators have been a part of a three month campaign called Speak Up, Speak Out, a project led by Calgary Immigrant Women's Association (CIWA). CIWA Community Liaison, Abiodun Odueke, says the idea [...]