Youth Mental Health Canada is a registered charity providing tiered resources, free programs, and professional training since 2013.
Choose who you are looking for support for.
Our resources follow a tiered model of support: universal tools for everyone (Tier 1), and targeted and intensive tools for students facing school attendance challenges (Tier 2–3).
Universal mental wellness for all students
5 workbooks · 4 booklets · 1 course
Targeted and intensive support for students with school attendance challenges
1 guidebook · 1 workbook · 1 handbook · 1 course
Every title is available in print or photocopiable formats. Browse the Resource Library.
Who it serves: Students facing attendance challenges or other barriers to learning
Free virtual tutoring and one-to-one mentorship, with in-person support where available.
Who it serves: Parents, caregivers, and families
A private peer support community for families supporting children and youth who are experiencing school attendance challenges.
Who it serves: Students absent due to mental health challenges, and volunteers
Handmade hearts with messages of support, sent to students and schools.
Who it serves: Anyone who wants to support someone who is struggling
Peer support in action: send a message of support to someone who is struggling.
Who it serves: Youth and adults
A message of support in your inbox each day: a small reminder that you are cared for and not alone.
Who it serves: Schools, community organizations, and youth-serving agencies
Free Compassionate Cards (24 printable cards) for peer support teams.
Who it serves: Youth and adults
Online tools from YMHC: a monthly self-care planner, daily goal setting, and an interactive feelings wheel.
Self-paced professional training with a certificate of completion.
Online certificate course · Tier 2–3
Across 10 units and 130+ lessons, the course explores student well-being, lived experience, human rights, disability, trauma, MTSS, suicide prevention, educational accommodations, family collaboration, and attendance data.
Online certificate course · Tier 1
A self-paced online program (5–7 hours) for educators, school staff, mental health professionals, parents, caregivers, and community members. It takes a proactive and preventative approach to youth mental health by empowering young people to create their own Personal Wellness Action Plan.
National Conferences
May 28 to 29, 2027 · Virtual
Our third annual national virtual conference on school attendance challenges, with national and international speakers, panel discussions, and the development of multi-tiered school-wide strategies for supporting students.
$350,000+
In the last five years, YMHC has donated over $350,000 worth of wellness workbooks, workshops, and training courses to Indigenous communities, community organizations, schools, and libraries.
· By Iyin Soyemi
Childhood is the most formative period of our lives.
· By Iyin Soyemi
One of the major milestones we reach in childhood is developing the ability to notice physical differences in the people around us.
Every year on November 20th, people remember transgender and gender-diverse people who were killed because of their gender identity.
You can support us by contributing in many ways to YMHC and the work that we do.
