R048900
This program is designed to help young teens understand that abuse, of all types, is more common than they think and if it happens to them, they need to tell a trusted adult. It examines the different types of abuse that can occur: physical, emotional and sexual, and helps young teens understand that the victim is never at fault and did not cause or deserve the abuse. One of the biggest reasons victims don't speak out is because they think no one will believe them. This program assures young people that while this can happen in some cases, the victim must continue to speak out until someone listens and takes what they say seriously. Use this program to educate your students and help them come forward if they have been abused.
CD/DVD
Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
$129.95
Record posted/updated:
July 2, 2020
R036308
This video is set in a classroom where students are engaged in an exercise about bullying, stereotypes and the harmful effects that language can have on people. The students create pictures that portray sensitive situations, such as a young girl who has two moms and two boys whose friendship comes to a halt when one boy learns that the other is gay. The students' representations and stories are brought to life through animation. The program dispels myths about gays and lesbians, challenges homophobia and focuses on respect and acceptance.
A teacher's guide is available.
Record posted/updated:
January 6, 2026
R054849
With input from teens and a teen counsellor, this program highlights the essentials of a healthy relationship. Teens learn the essentials of a healthy partnership including trust, communication, respect and conflict resolution. Teens and experts emphasize the rights every young person has in a relationship. These include: the right to disagree, the right to one's own life and the right to be treated with respect. This video delivers a strong message against dating abuse and violence. Viewers are informed of the signs of abuse and how to become empowered to exit an unhealthy relationship or to help a friend do the same.
CD/DVD
Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
$189.00
Record posted/updated:
November 22, 2018
R044433
This current, highly informative publication provides a detailed look at peer harassment and bullying prevention. The book clearly defines various types of bullying including verbal, physical, relational, cyber and sexual. It also explores abuse of power and criminal harassment. Readers learn about the rights and responsibilities of self and others and about intervention and prevention issues, including law and policies. Included are a table of contents and a bibliography of related resources.
Book
Bullying
Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
$20.00
Record posted/updated:
November 22, 2018
R051758
The National visits an inner city high school in Saskatoon, SK, where teacher Allison Cameron tests the theory that vigorous daily exercise improves academic performance. City Park Collegiate is considered a high school of last resort for kids who haven't been able to make it anywhere else. The Grade 8 and 9 students contend with a wide range of behavioural problems: almost half are diagnosed with ADHD and many work at a Grade 4 level. When Allison came across groundbreaking research by Harvard psychiatrist John Ratey (author of Spark), showing a link between sustained aerobic activity and the brain's ability to learn, she took the data to her principal to make the case for a new approach. For Allison and her students, the program was a runaway success and test results prove it.
Record posted/updated:
January 6, 2026
R015536
This website offers up-to-date information on bullying including cyberbullying and homophobic bullying. Included are tips for teens on how to stop bullying.
Record posted/updated:
January 6, 2026
R070965
Based on research conducted in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Scandinavia, this professional resource from the Handbooks for Parents and Educators Series explores bullying within public schools. It provides insight into the short- and long-term effects that bullying can have on students, their families and teachers. Focusing on sexual bullying, homophobic bullying and bullying of students with disabilities, it offers insights on the social dynamics of the classroom, the hallways and the playground. Bullying: A Handbook for Educators and Parents provides guidance for teachers and parents/caregivers who are working together to prevent bullying in schools. Included are a table of contents, a glossary and an index.
Record posted/updated:
November 22, 2018
R071001
These six coloured posters (45 cm by 60 cm) offer valuable information that will help students to commit to dealing appropriately with intimidation, threats, harassment, social exclusion and other forms of bullying.
Other
Bullying
\$59.95 (plain posters) / \$69.95 (laminated posters)
Record posted/updated:
November 30, 2018
R049296
This program helps viewers to understand the seriousness of eating disorders including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, purging and compulsive exercising. It addresses the causes, warning signs, physical and psychological effects, treatments, and where to go for help. It also offers suggestions for ways to support friends and encourages students to become critical of the media messages they receive regarding the value of thinness. A song "Life Without E.D." enhances the program. A few people affected by eating disorders discuss their ways of dealing with them.
Record posted/updated:
July 16, 2020
R054851
This video feature five realistic party scenarios in which teens are being pressured by peers to act in ways that they know are wrong. These vignettes include situations where teens are being asked to drink alcohol, have sex, cheat on a test, play a mean prank, and ride with a drunken driver. The program offers suggestions for teens to respond to peer pressure in a respectful, assertive manner by: 1) analyzing the situation, 2) considering the consequences, 3) looking at alternatives, 4) recognizing influences, and 5) using assertiveness skills.
CD/DVD
Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
$189.00
Record posted/updated:
March 27, 2019
R015647
This resource provides materials to teach and reinforce safety skills for students from Kindergarten through Grade 9. Lesson materials deal equally with personal safety and sexual exploitation. The program contains an individual teacher's guide with lessons and activities for each grade plus 5 storybooks, 3 puppets and 2 plush dolls. Materials may also be purchased by individual grade.
Kit
Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
$260.00
Record posted/updated:
November 22, 2018
R041565
Designed for educators, administrators and parents, this book helps readers to recognize bullying problems and offers strategies to help rectify the problems. No Room for Bullies offers ways to measure the social climate of a school; a 12-point checklist on preventing problems in hallways, classrooms and common areas; advice for establishing and reinforcing classroom rules; a safe Internet-surfing contract for students and more. Included are a table of contents, lists of resources and an index.
Record posted/updated:
April 27, 2019
R049565
Today's teens are bombarded with confusing messages about nutrition. This program debunks the top 10 nutrition myths and offers solid facts. By using a mix of real interviews with adolescents, humorous fake commercials and interviews with registered dietitians in an actual food lab, teens learn how to read and understand food labels, why there is no magic potion for losing weight, tasty alternatives to junk food and how they can eat healthier and be happier with their own body images. Viewers also learn that skipping meals is a certain way to gain unwanted pounds and how even a moderate amount of exercise can make a huge difference in their overall health and well-being.
A teacher's guide is available.
Record posted/updated:
July 8, 2024
R071078
This is the charter for action to achieve health for all presented at the First International Conference on Health Promotion in Ottawa in 1986. The charter highlights the fundamental conditions and resources that are prerequisites for health and the actions that need to be taken in order to build a healthy society. This document is a valuable professional resource.
Record posted/updated:
December 27, 2018
R046082
Useful for both teachers and students, this website explains what a health body image is and it provides numerous links for users who want more information.
Record posted/updated:
April 27, 2019
R103245
This Canadian organization's focus is to influence the healthy development of children and youth by advocating for quality physical and health education. The association provides online supports for educators and publishes The Physical and Healthy Education Journal (PHE Journal).
Record posted/updated:
January 6, 2026
R041770
Following the death of her mother, Izzie begins to live by her mother's clearcut rules for life. Life is generally good for Izzie because she has an amicable relationship with her father, has a kind and reliable boyfriend and is pleased that her brother has overcome his drug addiction. Circumstances, however, change for the worse when Izzie's father remarries and she has to share him with her pregnant stepmother. Also, Izzie becomes aware that her brother has traded drug addiction for alcoholism. Suddenly, Izzie needs more than just her mother's simple rules! It is a friend from the Seniors' Centre and her stepmother who eventually help Izzie to understand that families are about much more than just a biological relationship.
Record posted/updated:
November 22, 2018
R049028
This program informs viewers of the difference between fad diets and a healthy lifestyle of exercise and nutrition. It discusses the health risks of being overweight, but encourages youth to reject the super thin and often unhealthy, body types displayed in the media.
Record posted/updated:
July 2, 2020
R053445
Realistic vignettes and information from adults, including medical professionals, provide facts about sexually transmitted diseases: what they are, how they are contracted and symptoms and treatment. The program makes clear that while condoms offer protection, abstinence is the only 100% guaranteed way to be safe from sexually transmitted diseases.
Topics include: facts about sexually transmitted diseases, symptoms and treatment for common STDs, consequences of leaving STDs untreated, the truth about common myths concerning STDs and the importance of practicing safe sex.
Record posted/updated:
July 8, 2024
R054637
This video explores the individual, family and cultural factors that have been linked to eating disorders. Students will come to understand that eating disorders can be triggered by major life crises such as the death of a loved person, family changes, school problems or personal failures. Viewers will learn the warning signs of anorexia and bulimia.
Record posted/updated:
November 2, 2021
R051555
What do teens see when they look in the mirror? Regardless of how closely their actual bodies match their perception, teenagers' body image can dramatically affect their self-esteem, eating and exercise habits, relationships with others and ultimately their health. Using the Teen Truth signature "video by students for students" style, the video captures real teens, parents, physicians, a coach and an entertainment professional discussing how celebrities, media, sports and peers influence one's body image and may lead to dangerous habits. Three compelling personal stories reveal how peer and media influences drove these teens to engage in life-threatening behaviours. These stories include teasing and exclusion led Emily to develop an eating disorder and Kayla to binge eat her way to obesity, while Nolan's desire to be bigger, stronger and faster ended in health hazards due to his performance enhancing drug use. A father's sobering account of how steroids claimed the life of his baseball star son drives home the seriousness of this issue. In the end, the film challenges viewers to think differently about how they see their body image and the body image of others. Ultimately it empowers teens to find true strength and self-acceptance from within.
A teacher's guide is available.
Record posted/updated:
July 8, 2024
R054156
Many people may be bullies and not even know it. This program challenges students to think about their own behaviour with a series of seven questions about physical, verbal, and exclusionary bullying. Questions include: Have you ever punched, shoved, or hit another boy or girl? Do you ever make fun of or tease other students or call them mean names? Do you often make fun of others because they are "different" from you or your friends? Have you purposely not invited someone to hang out with you and your friends? Do you gossip about other people or spread rumors via text messages or through social network sites? After each question students describe their own experiences as victims and perpetrators of bullying. Their stories and comments by Joel Haber, a leading bullying expert, show how bullying hurts both the person being bullied and the bullies themselves.
Record posted/updated:
September 11, 2018
R053432
This is the story of Theo Fleury, who, against all odds, established himself as a major star in the National Hockey League. In his rookie year, he helped the Calgary Flames win the Stanley Cup and went on to rack up Hall of Fame stats. But, through it all, he was as troubled as he was talented and tough.
This Fifth Estate episode relates Fleury's remarkable story, the staggering fall from grace that cost him millions of dollars, his family and almost, his life. Fleury talks about how he struggled back from the brink of despair to become clean and sober and ready to help others. He candidly discusses the dark issues that haunted him during the glory years, including the sexual abuse he experienced as a teenager at the hand of the now notorious junior hockey coach, Graham James. Behind Fleury's public bravado was a man struggling with addictions to alcohol, drugs and sex. His candid and unsentimental recounting of those years and, finally, his vanquishing of his demons, will be an inspiration to many - a cautionary tale for others.
This video opens a dialogue for youth to be aware of these issues and to not feel as alone.
Video
Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
Free
Record posted/updated:
January 6, 2026
R050446
While the Internet is a place of promise and progress, it is also a place of peril for young teens. Chat rooms, email, sites such as MySpace, and instant messaging allow teens to keep in touch with friends, but also offer the potential for youngsters to be abused in ways they have not considered. Using real teens in a peer-to-peer format, this video helps teens navigate problems and learn important rules and strategies to keep them safe while surfing the net. Program explores online bullying and rumour spreading, identity theft, blogging and the real threat of sexual predators. Viewers learn to think before they click in order to avoid embarrassing themselves or hurting others, while keeping themselves and others safe. Students will conclude that while the Internet is fun and exciting, it is always important to be smart about what they say and whom they befriend online.
CD/DVD
Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
$189.00
Record posted/updated:
July 1, 2020
R054852
This program, with input from teens and a registered dietician, focuses on five problem areas that hinder healthy eating: (1) not enough fruits and vegetables, (2) not enough whole grains and lean protein, (3) overdosing on salt, (4) overdosing on sugar, (5) overdosing on fat. Viewers learn the ill effects of a poor diet as well as easy-to-implement solutions that can help them to be healthier and more energetic.
Record posted/updated:
November 22, 2018
R054862
This series captures the knowledge, worldviews and experiences of seven Elders and a Knowledge Keeper who are members of Saskatchewan's Cree, Dakota, Dene, Nakota and Saulteaux First Nations. They share their wisdom regarding the cultural practices, laws, and traditional values surrounding the sexual maturation of First Nations children to young adulthood. It was created as a resource for educators and others to use as they support youth to make positive lifestyle choices for their sexual and reproductive health. All these cultures emphasize the importance of respect - respect for self, others, land, universe and all living things.
Please see the related resources below.
Record posted/updated:
January 21, 2019
R032476
This series captures the knowledge, worldviews and experiences of seven Elders and a Knowledge Keeper who are members of Saskatchewan's Cree, Dakota, Dene, Nakota and Saulteaux First Nations. They share their wisdom regarding the cultural practices, laws, and traditional values surrounding the sexual maturation of First Nations children to young adulthood. It was created as a resource for educators and others to use as they support youth to make positive lifestyle choices for their sexual and reproductive health. All these cultures emphasize the importance of respect - respect for self, others, land, universe and all living things.
Please see the related resources below.
Record posted/updated:
January 21, 2019
R046011
Hosted by recording artist Bow Wow, this DVD offers valuable Grade 6, 7, 8 and 9 curriculum- appropriate information about HIV/AIDS through discussions with youth who are learning about the virus. The program offers an age-appropriate explanation of the definition and biology of HIV and means of infection, testing, treatment and prevention. Understanding HIV and AIDS stresses that abstinence is the most effective way to prevent sexual transmission of the HI virus.
Portions of this DVD could be used at each middle level grade to support the achievement of particular grade-level outcomes.
Record posted/updated:
July 8, 2024