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COMMUNITY EDUCATION SERVICE
October 2025
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Supporting Student Well-Being:
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A Collaborative Webinar Series for Families and Caregivers
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Throughout October, CES, in proud partnership with the Calgary Board of Education, invites you to the Child & Youth Well-Being Family & Caregiver Series.
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Together, CES and CBE are launching educational initiatives designed to foster environments where children, youth, and their families feel supported and empowered. In today’s world, many students are navigating complex mental health challenges - including emotional dysregulation, stress, and anxiety.
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This curated series of webinars below aims to equip parents and caregivers with practical tools, insights, and strategies to nurture well-being, build resilience, and help young people thrive - both in school and beyond.
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CES presentations are FREE
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They qualify as Cat B learning credits
Not all presentations are recorded or include handouts
Attendance certificates are always emailed within 3 days
Have a topic you’d like us to cover? Send your suggestions to ces@recoveryalberta.ca.
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Through your participation, you agree that you will not save content, record content, share, or post photos from any presentation without prior permission. Doing so will result in you being removed from the session.
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At the P.A.I.N.S Lab, we focus on pediatric pain, anesthesia, imaging, and neurodevelopmental science.
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Led by Principal Investigator, Dr. Jillian Miller, the P.A.I.N.S lab uses state-of-the-art neuroimaging and experimental techniques to understand the effects of pain and anesthesia on the developing brain.
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The Resilience Scale: A Tool for change
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Resilience is the ability to adapt and remain healthy in the face of adversity and can be strengthened or weakened over time in response to our experiences.
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The Resilience Scale tool developed by the Palix Foundation (Alberta Family Wellness Initiative) helps to illustrate how three factors interact to determine resilience: adversities, positive supports, and acquired skills and abilities.
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Wednesday Oct 22
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Vaping: What’s Really Going On?
Health Promotion Facilitators, Community Health Promotion Services (CHPS), Recovery Alberta
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Youth vaping is increasing - let’s understand what they’re using and why.
• Learn about vaping devices, nicotine, cannabis, and the health risks.
• Discover how to have open, honest conversations with your teen about vaping.
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Wednesday Oct 29
6 - 8 pm
Stressed but Strong, Anxious but Awesome: Understanding your child's worries through a strength-based lens
Dr. Sterling Sparshu, MD, FRCPC, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
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Participants will:
- Understand the stress-anxiety spectrum in children and teens
- Recognize healthy vs problematic stress
- Learn how to respond to stress and anxiety through a strength-based lens
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Thursday Oct 30
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Navigating the Pressure to Perform: Benefits of Well-being Centered Identity Development for Children and Teens
Shelbi Snodgrass, MC, RCC, CCC, CMPC, Registered Clinical Counsellor, Snodgrass & Duff Performance Consulting and Counselling Inc.
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The pressure to perform is increasingly impacting children and teen’s ability to cope, negatively impacting their confidence and sense of self. From navigating school pressures, friendships, after school curricular activities, and an ever-evolving political climate, the need for well-being focused values are more critical than ever.
Learning Objectives
- Understanding the pressure to perform influencing children and teens
- Identify vulnerabilities to and indicators of low confidence and self-esteem
- Reflect on the language, behaviours, and environments that help or hinder healthy identity development
- Explore dimensions of well-being and their benefits to identify development and confidence
- Review contributing factors to safe and accountable performance environments
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Tuesday Nov 4
Noon - 1:30 pm
Growing Resilient Teens
Andrea Halwas Larsen, PhD, CT, REACE
Associate Therapist and Education Coordinator of Juno House
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Before high school graduation, 1/3 of adolescent girls will experience depression, anxiety disorders, self-harm or an eating disorder. However, parents, coaches and teachers have extraordinary healing powers to support our teens as they develop into young adulthood.
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Resilience is not taught; it is grown in our children. There are ways that we can help our children become more resilient starting within our relationship first.
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This session is facilitated by a therapist from Juno House who has years of both clinical and facilitating experience. Juno House was founded in 2008 as a Centre of Excellence for adolescent girls and young women who are experiencing anxiety-based mental health
issues of self harm, obsessive compulsive disorders, depression and eating disorders.
This 90-minute session will provide participants with:
• a basic introduction of interpersonal neurobiology and anxiety,
• the essential role emotions play in mental well-being,
• how to identify emotions in your child,
• strategies to have a better relationship with your child including how to be an emotion coach. *This presentation will NOT be recorded*
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Wednesday Nov 5
11 - 12:30 pm
Mental health for highly sensitive teens; unique struggles for these emotional feelers
Tracy Fields, BSW, MSW in partnership with Tracy Fields Counselling
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Highly sensitive teens are often misunderstood by parents and teachers as they often have stronger emotional reactions. In this presentation, learn why this happens, and the necessary tools required to help these teens manage their emotions so they don't become derailed. *This presentation will NOT be recorded*
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Thursday Nov 6
11 - 12:30 pm
ADHD, Autism and Anxiety - Can you have them all?
Dr. Cheryl Gilbert MacLeod, Registered Psychologist
The Family Psychology Place
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ADHD, Autism and Anxiety share common characteristics. This presentation aims to help parents, caregivers, and educators understand what these characteristics are, how they are often misdiagnosed, and ways to help support your child/student with one or all of these diagnoses.
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Researchers at the P.A.I.N.S lab located at the Alberta Children's Hospital in Calgary want to understand how the brain responds to pain RESEARCH IS ALWAYS VOLUNTARY!This study might be a good fit for you if:- you are between the ages of 14 to 18 years- you are healthy and fluent in English.
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Contact: Dr. Jillian Miller at 403-955-5768 or info@painslab.ca
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Community Health Promotion Services (CHPS) aims to prevent and reduce harms related to substance misuse and mental health disorders by maximizing the well-being of children, adolescents and families. Our team works in the Calgary Zone as a part of Recovery Alberta's Child & Adolescent Addiction, Mental Health & Psychiatry Programs (CAAMHPP).
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