Stay active with this free healthy community program for young people and families across Canada.  YGym is instructed by YMCA certified fitness instructors and features content based on YMCA Canada’s Health & Fitness Programs and Canada’s Physical Activity Guidelines:

https://www.ymcahome.ca/ygym

Calm is a mental health app for your phone, full of goodies like guided meditation, breathing exercises and visualization:

Mindshift is another mental health app for your phone that uses cognitive behavioural therapy to change your mindset for healthy and positive thinking:

There is a free online weekly seminar called Parenting in a Pandemic, every Thursday from 7 to 8 pm Pacific time, which started on Thursday April 23.  Previous weeks have been recorded and can be viewed.  FREE to the public on a weekly basis, join Gordon Neufeld, Deborah MacNamara and Tamara Strijack as they address your questions about parenting from an attachment-based developmental approach: https://neufeldinstitute.org/event/parenting-in-a-pandemic-qa-panel/

I have a PDF version of this great book – message me if you’d like a copy!

Information via Burnaby School District: https://burnabyschools.ca/blog/2020/03/26/ministry-update-on-the-novel-coronavirus/

To assess your health status, call 8-1-1 to ask questions or to pre-arrange health testing if you think that you have symptoms of COVID-19

From Income to Housing. School, Food and/or Employment conerns, “We Gotchu” is a comprehensive support website that addresses many challenging impacts of COVID-19: https://www.wegotchu.ca/

There is a comforting article here about our collective loss/grief due to COVID-19 at this website: https://hbr.org/2020/03/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief

For the Combined Community Support Services During COVID-19, copy-and-paste this link into your browser to view the list: file:///C:/Users/getap/Downloads/Community%20Support%20Services%20Combined%20(3).pdf

Family doctors – All doctors in the province are now offering their services by telephone (as well as in person if needed).

Foundry BC is now offering virtual drop-in counselling sessions by voice, video, and chat to BC’s young people ages 12-24 and their caregivers.  Foundry’s virtual services are free and confidential and easy to access. There is no referral or assessment required.  See more at:  foundrybc.ca/virtual and  promotional materials

https://crisiscentre.bc.ca/special-programming-during-the-current-health-situation/ – Offering free online course beginning April 1st by Webinar Tools for Managing Stress and Burnout

BC has a new information hotline solely dedicated to answering non-medical questions about COVID-19.  It will help answer questions about travel recommendations, social distancing, and what kinds of support, resources and assistance are available from the provincial and federal governments:  1-888-COVID19 or 1-888-268-4319, will be staffed from 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day with information available in more than 110 languages.

There is a newly developing counselling network aimed at supporting residents of BC during the COVID–19 crisis. They are offering free, short-term one-on-one counselling online or by phone.
Potential clients are instructed to email bccovidtherapists@gmail.com to receive an appointment time.

“Open Parachute” has a  COVID-19 well-being video series by clinical psychologist, Dr. Hayley Watson, made for both  parents and youth:  https://openparachuteschools.com/covid

To view “COVID and Substance Abuse: What Youth and Families Need to Know,”, copy-and-paste this link into your browser :  file:///C:/Users/getap/Downloads/vaping_PRINTABLE%20canadian%20paediatrics%20(2).pdf

To view “COVID-19, Alcohol & Cannibis Abuse,” , copy-and-paste this link into your browser:  file:///C:/Users/getap/Downloads/CCSA-COVID-19-Alcohol-Cannabis-Use-Infographic-2020-en_1%20(3).pdf