Training and Education
This training and education hub was created to help Edmontonians come together to support one another in living happier, more meaningful lives. Whether you're caring for family, friends, coworkers, or even strangers, we all play a role in looking out for each other.
These courses are designed to support your growth—whether you're a peer, a service provider, or someone just trying to help. Topics include mental health and addictions, suicide prevention, peer support, poverty and housing, parenting, and more. All trainings emphasize approaches that are fair, trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, and rooted in community values. See a calendar view of upcoming locally offered training →
Understanding Your Child's Behaviour – Norwood Child and Family Resource Centre
Learn about the science behind your child’s behaviour and how to nurture healthy and happy relationships with your family.
To register: Norwood - Courses
Understanding Human Connection – Norwood Child and Family Resource Centre
This group focuses on enhancing interpersonal skills through effective communication, conflict resolution, self-care, and strategies for dealing with difficult situations.
Participants will engage in education, discussions, and activities focused on the importance of fostering resilience, boundary creation, and emotional intelligence. The group looks to teach valuable skills for building healthier, more fulfilling connections.
To register: Norwood - Courses
The Brain Architecture Game – Norwood Child and Family Resource Centre
This tabletop game builds understanding of the powerful role of experiences on early brain development: what promotes it, what derails it, and with what consequences to society.
Learn about toxic, tolerable, and positive stress, and how to build a brain!
To register: Norwood - Courses
Setting Boundaries and Limits with Children – Norwood Child and Family Resource Centre
Together with other parents, learn tips to support setting up rules, limits, boundaries, and realistic expectations for you and your child.
To register: Norwood - Courses
Play: The Work of Childhood – Norwood Child and Family Resource Centre
Discuss the parent’s role in play and learn how to set up your home environments to keep your children safe, engaged, and growing through play.
To register: Norwood - Courses
Handle with Care – Norwood Child and Family Resource Centre
This group focuses on supporting children’s mental health.
We focus on four building blocks: attachment, relationships with others, expressing emotions, and promoting self-esteem.
To register: Norwood - Courses
Empowered Parenting – Norwood Child and Family Resource Centre
Participants in this group will discuss developing positive relationships and positive parenting skills such as health, safety, behaviour and development of children, through interactive activities, videos, and conversations.
The goal of this group is for parents to learn positive parenting techniques and develop skills for success.
To register: Norwood - Courses
Unconscious Bias & Bias Awareness – Canadian Equality Consulting
In this course, you'll examine personal and organizational biases and learn how to recognize, address, and challenge them.
Explore the most common types of biases and how they can lead to discrimination, microaggressions, and exclusion. We’ll also delve into the neuroscience behind bias and provide practical strategies to help you identify and mitigate biases, creating a more equitable and inclusive environment.
To register: CEC – UBBA
Over The Rainbow: An Exploration of Trans & Non-Binary History – Canadian Equality Consulting
The second mini course in the Over the Rainbow series to celebrate gender and diverse communities. This course will build on what you've learned in course 1 and discuss an exploration of trans and non-binary history across the globe.
To register: CEC - OTRETNBH
Over The Rainbow: A Celebration of Gender and Sexual Diversity – Canadian Equality Consulting
A comprehensive review of key 2SLGBTQIA+ terminology and front-page moments in Canada’s queer history.
The content includes action steps and best practices for what it takes to become an ally and to support the Gender and Sexual Diversity community.
To register: CEC - OTRCGSD
Indigeneity in Turtle Island: Footprints Across These Lands – Canadian Equality Consulting
This course offers an exploration of the histories of Indigenous Peoples in Turtle Island (Canada and the United States focus), highlighting the significance of National Indigenous History Month and National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada.
This course explores the rich and diverse histories, cultures, and contributions of Indigenous Peoples, gaining a deeper understanding of their enduring legacy and influence. Also learn about meaningful land acknowledgements.
To register: CEC - ITIFATL
Detangling Anti-Fat Bias in the Workplace – Canadian Equality Consulting
Learn the correct terminology to use, how anti-fat bias appears in the workplace, and how that ties to other systems of oppression and then learn about the many common misconceptions. End with clear and concise ways to combat anti-fat bias.
To register: CEC - DAFBW
DEI Fundamentals – Canadian Equality Consulting
Gain a strong foundational understanding of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in this course.
You will explore essential DEI concepts, including common language and the significance of promoting equity in organizations. Learn about equity-deserving populations, intersectionality, and the dynamics of power and privilege. This course provides the tools and knowledge you need to foster inclusive environments and help advance your organization's DEI goals.
To register: CEC - DEIF
Black History Month: Exploring the Roots of Anti-Black Racism – Canadian Equality Consulting
This course will equip participants with the knowledge, tools, concepts and resources to identify the prevalence of anti-Black racism, and learn how to actively and intentionally build an anti-racist workplace.
To understand the impact of anti-Black racism and how it manifests in today's society, it is crucial to learn about significant moments and changemakers in Black history, from both the American and Canadian contexts.
To register: CEC - BHMERABR
Microlearning: Maintaining Hope Course Series – Center for Trauma Informed Practices
This course series provides four individual courses that give insight into the idea and value of hope, and end with practical applications for how one can help others.
Keeping hope alive, even in seemingly hopeless situations, is paramount to our functioning as humans. Learned helplessness is the opposite of hope, and holds people down even if those around them can see ways out of situations.
The four courses are:
What Happens Without Hope?
What Do We Mean By Hope?
How Do We Have Hope?
How Do We Help Others Have Hope?
Each course has one objective that is accomplished by introducing learners to content through slides, videos, images, reflections, questions, and applications.
The objectives are:
Define learned helplessness and identify the ramifications of not having hope.
Explain the concept of a hopeful person; a hopeful person is one who believes that hope exists even in a traumatic situation.
Distinguish between two types of hope and explore, in detail, life-changing hope.
Synthesize the foundations of hope with open communication and meaningful conversations to help those around have hope.
CEU: 1 Continuing Education Credit
Credential Type: Badge
Time to complete: 1 hour / self-paced learning
Course access: Available for 30 days from date of enrollment
To register: CTIP - MHCS
Natural Supports Simulation - United Way Alberta Capital Region
Learn how to build trusting relationships and help support a youth through 8 skills.
A Natural Support mindset is built upon 8 skills that can support a child or youth experiencing a mental health concern.
The simulation lasts about 15-25 minutes. Once started, you can leave the simulation at any time and we’ll save your spot.
Pick a role - Unique scenarios are available for 3 main support roles in a youth’s life: Parent or Caregiver, Teacher or Coach, and Friend or Relative.
Pick an area of concern - Each youth represents a mental health concern. You can repeat the simulation as many times as you like to explore multiple roles and concerns.
Give honest answers - Provide honest responses that reflect your interactions with youth so you can learn which skills and resources you need.
Get resources and support - The outcomes of this simulation will help you prepare and strengthen your skills as a Natural Support.
Developed by The Social Impact Lab.
To register: United Way – NSS
Prevent It! – Little Warriors
Prevent It! educates and empowers adults to take action and help prevent and respond to child sexual abuse.
The Prevent It! workshop offers hope to help prevent child sexual abuse. Research has shown that adults who complete it become more supportive of children and begin using more behaviours that are believed to reduce children’s vulnerability to sexual abuse.
Offered in person and online by Little Warriors, Prevent It! is a FREE evidence-based educational workshop developed in Canada in conjunction with researchers at the University of Alberta. The course is available in live or self-paced formats, and an Indigenous version is also available.
To register: LW – PI
Bridge Community Programs – Little Warriors
An online module-based program designed for youth addressing multiple topics around preventing sexual abuse by providing information, resources, tools and support services in an interactive, age appropriate way.
The Bridge Community Programs were developed by the Clinical Team at the Little Warriors Be Brave Ranch, in collaboration with Safe Places.
We began with a concept to develop a workshop to educate children and teens on how to help prevent sexual abuse, in line with the Little Warriors Prevent it! program that educates adults on how to help prevent and respond to child sexual abuse.
As the team began developing content, it became apparent that we could and should utilize the knowledge and expertise of our psychologists, social workers, professionals, and parents to develop a program that would become a platform to educate and empower children and youth on a much broader spectrum.
After registering to access the program, individuals or facilitators of groups can log into the platform and work through as many modules as they want to. Each module has information to read, videos, activities, reflection, calming grounding strategies, wrap up and resources. Facilitated programs for groups have facilitator notes and guidance as well as resources and supports to follow up with the group after the module has been delivered.
Topics Include:
Identity and Values, Culture and Traditions, Spirituality and Religion, Mental Health, Self-Care and Wellness, Resiliency, Self-Compassion, Challenging Our Thoughts, Mindfulness, Calming and Grounding, Gratitude, Mind and Body Connection, Body Image, Mindfulness and Movement (Yoga), Understanding Diversity, Gender, LGBTQI2S+, Relationships, Drama, Conflict, Jealousy, Bullying, Boundaries, Consent, Sexuality, Sexual Safety, Coming Out, Abuse, Stress, Trauma, Understanding Sexual Abuse, Dealing with Abuse, Internet Safety, Internet Child Exploitation, Sharing Intimate Images, Human Trafficking, Addiction, Self-Harm, Suicide, Eating Disorders, Effective Study Skills and Test Taking and Menstruation.
To register: LW – BCP
Fostering Resilience I: Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences – The Family Centre
In part one of our "Fostering Resilience" workshop series, participants will gain valuable insights into Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their profound impact on healthy brain development and body functioning.
Discover how ACEs can have lasting effects on health, well-being, and development, leading to challenges such as chronic health issues, mental illness, or substance abuse in adulthood.
In this 3-hour workshop, participants will:
Develop a clearer understanding of ACEs and their implications
Learn about the crucial role of addressing ACEs in fostering resilience and recovery
Gain practical strategies for supporting service users affected by ACEs
Equip yourself with the knowledge and tools needed to make a positive difference in the lives of those impacted by childhood adversity.
To register: TFC – Staff Skill Development
Fostering Resilience II: Building Navigation & Negotiation Skills – The Family Centre
In part two of our "Fostering Resilience" workshop series, we dive into resilience theory and practical strategies for building resilience.
Discover how to apply a Science X Design approach (developed by the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University) to identify effective strategies for supporting service users in reducing stress, developing new skills, and enhancing connections with others.
In this 3-hour workshop, participants will:
Explore the principles of resilience theory and its application in practice
Learn evidence-based techniques for fostering resilience in themselves and others
Gain insight into using a Science by Design approach to tailor interventions for maximum effectiveness
Don't miss this opportunity to deepen your understanding of resilience and equip your staff with actionable tools to make a meaningful impact in their work with others.
To register: TFC – Staff Skill Development