Resources - For Parents
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What Parents need to know about Teens: Facts, Myths & Strategies (David A. Wolfe) (CAMH website, this is a booklet, of which only excerpts available online)
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Safety on the Internet: A Parent's Guide for Children Ages 8 & 9 (Canadian Centre for Child Protection)
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Safety on the Internet: A Parent's Guide for Children Ages 10 - 12 (Canadian Centre for Child Protection)
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Safety on the Internet: A Parent's Guide for Children Ages 13 - 15 (Canadian Centre for Child Protection)
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Divorce: A Parents' Guide for Supporting Children (NASP website)
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Parent Guide (for the prevention of child sexual abuse) (Canadian Centre for Child Protection)
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Children and Self-Esteem (CMHA factsheet)
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How to Talk to Your Teen About Drugs (Government of Canada)
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My Kid on Drugs: What Can I Do? (CAMH website)
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Ten Tips for Talking to Your Kids about Substance Use (CAMH website)
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The Stress of Parenting (CMHA website)
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The Parent-Teen Relationship: How Parents can make the most of it (PDF from National Clearinghouse on Family Violence)
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Tips for Parents on Building Healthy Relationships with Their Teens (David Wolfe) (CAMH website)
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The Incredible Years: Resources for Parents (with links to articles for parents of 0-12 year olds) (Incredible Years website)
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The Canadian Father Involvement Initiative - a site for fathers and those working with them
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Ten Ways to be an Involved Dad (PDF from the Canadian Father Involvement Initiative)
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Help Your Child Build Healthy Relationships (education.com)
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Helping Your Kids Deal with Death (kidshealth.org)
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Information on Mental Health issues (teenmentalhealth.org)
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Barbara Coloroso's books (Kids Are Worth It / Kids Are Worth It: Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline / The Bully, The Bullied and the Bystander / Parenting with Wit and Wisdom in Times of Chaos and Loss / Just Because it Isn’t Wrong Doesn’t Make it Right / Parenting Through Crisis: Helping Kids in Times of Loss, Grief and Change)
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Resources for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, Transgendered youth, families and professionals (rainbow youth coalition website)
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Youth Line (youthline.ca)