1a: Well-being

Health and Family

Online Resources

Act Now BC ESL Resources
This document offers teaching resources for ELSA levels Literacy to Level 5. Topics include healthy eating, mental health, seniors’ health, physical activity, heart health, diabetes, pregnancy, pre and post-natal care, infant care, addictions, tobacco cessation, and general health.

Canadian Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health, and Addiction: The Brain from Top to Bottom. Beginners
Learners may need support to access these informational modules, but they offer a good way to develop vocabulary. Diagrams and simple definitions are provided. Topics include a basic description of brain physiology, memory, evolution and the brain, thought and language in the brain, and sleeping and dreaming.

Canada’s Food Guide and My Food Guide
These webpages are suitable for ELSA 5 – 7. Learners can use My Food Guide to find information suitable for their age and gender.

Government of Canada, Public Safety
This resource includes information about emergencies, disasters, fire prevention, and health protection.

Health Canada and the World: Current Events with Canadian Perspectives
This site offers a series of interesting short readings or articles on health-related topics.

Literacy and Health
This factsheet explains how literacy and health are related and includes useful links.

Statistics Canada: Health Reports
Health Reports is a quarterly journal that includes articles and tables and graphs on Canadian health data.

Substance Abuse, Health and Safety, ( CLB 8 )
Manitoba EAL Module Bank. This resource is aimed at CLB 8 learners, and would need to be adapted for ELSA 6 learners.

WHO Health Promotion Glossary
This document defines technical terms in health promotion (e.g., health indicators, health expectancy, community, population health). This is a World Health Organization (WHO) publication from the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion.

WestCoast Reader: Your Health
This resource is for mixed levels. Contains activities for ELSA 6/7, including sections on exercise, colds and flu, cancer, and diabetes

Online Resources

Child-minding Monitory Advisory & Support
This link includes accessible information on immigrant children, including the following topics: School Readiness, Understanding Separation Anxiety, and Culture Shock.

International Children’s Digital Library: A Library for the World’s Children
This site offers a large number of children’s books in various languages. It could be used as a learner resource to promote home and family literacy practices in both English and the heritage language, and as a way to promote sustainable bilingualism or multilingualism in the family across generations.

Ministry of Children and Family Development
This site describes a wide range of programs and services for children, youth, parents, families, people with special needs, and those fighting addictions.

Parents Matter. Downloadable Parenting Resources.
Topics on this site include Choosing Quality Books, From Hitting to Words Gardening Together, Parents at Play, Setting Consequences, Supporting Children’s Play, and many more.

People’s Law School
This site publishes plain language content on legal topics and offers public legal information in multiple-media formats such as video, print, radio, and TV.

Red Book Online
The Red Book Online is a web connection to information about community, social, and government services in the Metro Vancouver, Fraser Valley, and Squamish-Lillooet Regional Districts.

StrongStart in BC: StrongStart BC Early Learning Programs
This site offers links and contact information to StrongStart early learning programs across the province with free services to children between 0 – 5 years of age and their families.

The Federation of Community Social Services British Columbia
This is a recognized voice in BC for community services to children, youth, families, and adults with vulnerabilities. The site connects to over 130 member agencies who serve the needs of children and youth, women, people with disabilities, and families. The organization advocates, networks, builds skills, and provides public education.

The Vanier Institute of the Family
This institution creates awareness of and provides leadership on the importance and strengths of families in Canada and the challenges they face in their structural, demographic, economic, cultural, and social diversity.