FMVL0108 – Family Violence: Actions and Resources
(Intended For: Teachers) This document offers concrete suggestions for actions to be taken by educators, men, and all citizens to prevent family violence. It also lists contact information for organizations, and resources such as books and services available to educators and victims of family violence.
Read MoreBLYG0205 – Bullying and the Criminal Code
(Intended For: Secondary Grade Level) This activity addresses and explores the legal consequences of bullying particularly in relation to the Criminal Code of Canada. Includes references and links to the CCC for specific offences.
Read MoreDRGS0101 – Drugs: General Information and the Law
(Intended For: Teachers) This overview is intended to provide a basic working knowledge on the subject of drugs, including definitions, consequences for their use, and the legal aspects and implications.
Read MoreDRGS0201 – Drugs: Case Study (Taylor’s Story)
(Intended For: Teachers, Secondary Grade Level) This package helps teachers and others to facilitate a discussion of drug use by using a fictional case study of one person’s interaction with smoking. Students research and develop definitions, and discuss ways to assist someone struggling with an addiction. Includes student worksheets and companion teacher’s guide.
Read MoreFMVL0101 – Family Violence: Building a Definition
(Intended For: Teachers) This document defines family violence, and the types of abuse that can happen to a child or between domestic partners. It also provides explanations of legal definitions, and discusses the scope of the problem.
Read MoreFMVL0103 – Family Violence: Is This Me?
(Intended For: Teachers) This document provides encouragement and advice if your own relationship may be abusive.
Read MoreFMVL0105 – Family Violence: Child Abuse Signs and Symptoms
(Intended For: Teachers, General Public) This document offers educators a list of signs & symptoms of child abuse. It outlines tell-tale differences between abusive and non-inflicted injuries, gives a guide to interpreting sexualized behaviour in children, and offers perspectives on differing views of physical punishment. At the end of the document is a summary of the key signs of child abuse and neglect.
Read MoreFMVL0106 – Family Violence: Child Abuse, Reporting and the Law
(Intended For: Teachers) This document details what educators should do if they suspect child abuse. This includes an outline of what the law says about reporting including the “duty to report”, how educators have traditionally responded, and a disclosure checklist to use should you need to contact child protection. Directions for contacting provincial organizations and accessing local resources are also given.
Read MoreFMVL0107 – Family Violence: Domestic Violence and Child Abuse
(Intended For: Teachers) This document describes the cycle of violence, and how abusive environments harm children now and in their futures. It also offers some advice to educators on how to talk to a child when a parent is convicted of domestic violence.
Read MoreBLYG0204 – Bullying: Rules and Bylaws
(Activity – Intended For: Secondary Grade Level) This activity explores the purpose and effect of rules which govern behaviour within the school and in the community. A connection is made between classroom rules, school rules and responding to bullying. The activity culminates with students constructing and evaluating an anti-bullying rule for their classroom or school. Includes student worksheets and reference pages that provide information on bylaws and other approaches Alberta communities have used to address bullying.
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