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Helping families cope following a traumatic injury

​Find out how you can manage your own health while caring for your family after your child experiences a traumatic injury. 

Becoming a parent after a transplant

Drug and alcohol precautions after a liver transplant

Behavioural disorders: Signs and symptoms

Learn about the main symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder.

Dealing with teasing and bullying after a transplant

Knowing your rights in a health-care setting

Learn about your rights when it comes to making your own health-care decisions and your right to privacy.

Hemophilia: School and lifestyle

Teens living with hemophilia learn tips when away at school, including how to stay healthy, get better sleep and manage money.

Behavioural disorders: How to help your child at home

Learn how to manage your child's difficult behaviour.

Steps towards independence

Information to help your child or teen become more independent and take control of their own health care.

Body image

Learn more about body image and how having a positive body image can improve your overall health.

Self-monitoring: Recognizing symptoms and side effects

Learn what self-monitoring means, why it is important during treatment and how you can practice it.

Routine self-monitoring after a liver transplant

Chronic pain: Effective parenting for young children

​Find out how you can use effective parenting strategies to support the 3Ps of pain management for your young child with chronic pain.

Self-efficacy in children

​​Learn why self-efficacy is important for academic success and well-being in children.

Dehydration

Dehydration occurs when the body does not have enough water to function properly. Learn how illness can cause dehydration and how it is treated.

Self-care after leukemia treatment

Learn ways to encourage a child who has had leukemia to be aware of their medical history and to be an active participant in their own health.

Drug and alcohol precautions after a kidney transplant

Leukemia and weight gain

Learn why children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are at risk for becoming overweight.

Becoming a better communicator

Communication skills are something you can constantly improve on. Find out how you can become a better communicator.

Self-efficacy: How to foster in children

These practical tips for parents help foster self-efficacy, so a child learns to persist when facing a setback.

Is my child or adolescent feeling stressed about COVID-19?

Learn how children and adolescents express stress through their thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Find some strategies on how you can help your child.

Living with hand and upper limb conditions: Embracing Our Differences

Learn from young people with arm and hand differences about how they do home, school, work, and leisure activities in their own way.

Crying: What you can do

Learn about managing your baby's crying. Keeping calm and comforting your baby will often help soothe them.

Bone health: How exercise helps strengthen bones

Learn what exercises are best to help make your child's bones stronger.

Central venous line (CVL) insertion into the internal jugular vein: Caring for your child at home after the procedure

Learn how to care for child at home after a CVL insertion procedure.