COVID-19

Fort McKay has created posters for challenges, activities and contests to get the whole community involved! Check out this folder containing 11 awesome posters to spark ideas in your community.

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How can we heal the system in a time of intense challenge? It starts with healing yourself. In this webinar, Melanie Goodchild shared traditional indigenous medicines and ways of healing, and how healing the system as a whole, starts with healing ourselves.

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15 minute chair yoga class availalbe online through a video, accessible to all and FREE

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Bingo ideas for being active, eating well, taking care of our mental health and creating social networks. Great idea to modify to suit your community.

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The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada With your students, join a youth driven movement calling for First Nations children to have the same chance as other Canadians to grow up safely at home, get a good education, be healthy, and be proud of their cultures.

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Play from Home Resource Hub available.

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Preventative programming and services for youth and children, seniors, families and the whole community of Manning.

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Videos on simple recipes, physical activity, seniors resources and more!

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An educational mobile gaming platform that uses augmented reality to get youth active. Empowering educators in all sectors to turn the whole world into an engaging, fun and safe learning environment.

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Up to date information about the current public health measures in place in Alberta

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Daily activities for all summer long – set up to help support initiatives for June is Recreation and Parks month.

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Free physical activity anytime, anywhere! Using these Youtube videos created by YMCA certified fitness instructors for ages 5-15 years old.

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The activity calendar encourages youth across the country to participate in daily physical activity and get introduced to olympic sports.

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The purpose of the COVID Community Roots Program is to provide support for the populations made most vulnerable by the COVID-19 crisis. Through grants up to a maximum of $5,000, Alberta Blue Cross, Alberta Recreation and Parks Association and Communities ChooseWell are partnering to support the social, mental, emotional and physical well-being of vulnerable populations in rural, remote and secondary communities across Alberta.

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In an effort to support individual health and well-being throughout this pandemic, this list was compiled and aligns with the eight Dimensions of Wellness. This list is designed to help you find and access the support you might need as we navigate these complicated times together.

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Blog post with ideas about how community has shown up throughout the pandemic in kind, generous, vibrant and resourceful ways. Includes many resources to support communities.

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Online resources where the landing page is in multiple languages to connect individuals who speak various languages with health resources. Includes community presentations.

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Modules and resources to support physical and mental well being of Canadians. Text, online and telephone support – individual and group, community of support. Youth and adult strategies.

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Staying healthy with nutrition from the Canadian Nutrition Society.

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You can eat a variety of healthy foods every day to feel good and maintain your health, even during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Alberta Health Services resource supporting well-being through meaningful activity and leisure during COVID-19.

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There is a wide variety of useful and relevant resources available to individuals and organizations focused on healthy aging. Currently, we are focusing on supports that will help seniors serving organizations continue their operations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Physical Literacy at home videos for parents and children, and partner resources linked below their videos.

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Harvard Business Review is highlighting way to combat fatigue from many online meetings during the time of COVID-19

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In collaboration with partner organizations, this is a compiled list of resources to support the broader non-profit sector with operational and business continuity planning.

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Webinars and resources for Recreation and Parks sector.

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NCCIH will be frequently updating our home page and social media channels to provide reliable, accurate and up-to-date information as well as information sources in relation to COVID-19.

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Created by dancer James Jones, aka Notorious Cree, a professional dancer with 15+ years of experience in traditional hoop and Pow Wow dance. Join James for a high intensity Indigenous dance exercise session.

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The StyleHorse Collective from the Coeur D’Alene tribe (Schitsu’umsh), whose headquarters is in northern Idaho created a fun and interactive video series incorporates culture into fitness programming.

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WHO has created ideas to stay active at home and tips for keeping nutrition in check.

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Highlights from a conversation that covered topics important to indigenous communities during COVID-19.

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Variety of opportunities for students to connect to museums, zoos, artists, storytellers and more from home!

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Variety of resources for COVID-19, topics include: Fundraising, Human Resources, Communications, Policy Updates, Mental Health, Volunteers, Peer Connections and more!

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Indoor activities to keep kids busy, happy and away from screens

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Free at home workouts – article wording is geared towards mothers, however, the content and classes available are great for all adults and parents.

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Dietitians of Canada and dietitians across the country have been asked a number of questions about nutrition and dietary issues related to the COVID-19 / Coronavirus outbreak.

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Here are 5 community building stories and ideas sent in by Tamarack Institute members in response to COVID-19. Send your inspiring stories to Glenda and every week we will choose five to share.

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COVID-19 updates and resources in 15 languages

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Brooks Communities Choosewell, along with our partners, have assembled the following list of activities for families to help them stay healthy, active and safe while social distancing at home.

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Access environmental education activities and resources to support home-based learning. Parents, we want to support you as you adjust to the changes brought along by classes being cancelled and social distancing. Over the next few months, we will be populating this page with resources that may be of use to you as you help your kids learn from home.

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No gym? No park? No problem! Introducing our physical activity resource guide. To help you and your family stay active and healthy, we’ve rounded up some of our best resources and some others from awesome organizations who also promote active living and are making their resources available online.

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There’s no doubt about it: trying to juggle working from home with children is challenging. Whether you’re teleconferencing, focusing on writing, or trying to balance a budget, having kids around your home office is tricky. That’s why we’ve put together this list of 42 no-parent-needed activities to keep your kids entertained, so you’re able to focus on your work.

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Indigenous Services Canada is working closely with First Nation partners, as well as provincial/territorial counterparts to protect the health and safety of First Nations and support communities in responding to the concerns from COVID-19.

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With classes cancelled and public health recommendations to practice social distancing to limit the spread of COVID-19/Coronavirus, we’ll be compiling and sharing ideas to keep the whole family moving while at home.

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Tips to support children and families in their communities during this time of COVID-19.

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A seniors’ centre from the comfort of your own home! Join us for a variety of interactive telephone-based social and health programming, free of charge. Provides opportunities to socialize, learn new skills and stay connected. New series of participant-selected topics every four months. Program funded in part by the Government of Canada`s New Horizons for Seniors Program.

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The Lethbridge Sport Council has compiled a list of local organizations and businesses (and non-local related organizations) who are offering active living, active recreation and sport opportunities in alternate ways such as providing online resources, Facebook Live or YouTube videos.

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This webpage links to a variety of our partner resources to support teachers and parents in promoting health, well-being and physical activity.

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Text4Hope is a free evidence-based tool that helps people identify and adjust thoughts through a set of daily messages, people receive advice and encouragement helpful in developing healthy personal coping skills and resiliency. Feeling stress, anxiety and depression due to the COVID-19 crisis? We can help.

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Check out the links on the following document for activities, metal health, education, and other information.

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Access tips for tackling eating issues at home during COVID-19 and ideas for healthy meals.

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While staying home and social distancing to avoid spreading COVID-19, you may be finding yourself with more time to spend in your garden. And now that it’s spring, it’s the perfect time to get planting! To help you learn exactly how to get started, a number of organizations are offering free online gardening classes, and right now a few are even making some of their paid classes free for a limited time.

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To keep us all connected in this time of isolation and social distancing, Cochrane has created a sense of belonging with the help of technology. Learn more about the Cochrane online food pantry, Gourmet Go To Catering, and the Farmhouse Sessions.

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A short video about staying home to protect those around you, positive messaging 1 minute video.

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Medicine wheel developed by EHWC staff on EHWC logo.

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Engage youth to try making a salad in a jar at home with the supplies they have available.

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Red Deer developed a wellness bingo card that could be modified to suit activities for COVID-19.

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Ideas for young children to unleash their creativity and get active.

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Bingo ideas for being active, eating well, taking care of our mental health and creating social networks. Great idea to modify to suit your community.

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Physical distancing poster using a hockey stick to show the length of 2m from @siksikahealth (can follow on twitter).

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Daily Physical Activity videos

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Fun workouts and activities for the whole family.

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Shelley from Edmonton, Alberta has created a postcard template to help her neighbours and others in the community reach out to each other. She says: This file makes 4 postcards and can be edited. It seems to be giving people permission to reach out.

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Posting videos and links with tips for a variety of activities.

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Workout ideas for the whole family!

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Live stream seniors fitness classes

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Though there’s much about the COVID-19 outbreak out of our control, you can choose to embrace the kinds of activities that will keep you and your loved ones safe and healthy. Find wellness tips and resources here.

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Emotional wellness support information.

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Working from home safely and effectively: use this hazard assessment form to ensure you are safe.

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Environment Health and Safety bring you great tips to reduce injury and pain due to ergonomics working from home.

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