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COVID-19 and chronic pain in children and teens

Learn about how to help children and teens with chronic pain cope during the COVID-19 pandemic, and which medications are used to treat chronic pain.

Chronic pain: How to assess in teens

​Find out how to recognize the signs of chronic pain at home and how chronic pain is assessed in medical settings.

Motivating your teen to develop new skills

It can be very difficult to motivate teens to complete self-care tasks. Use small rewards and make sure you acknowledge efforts they make towards self-care.

Sickle cell disease: Encouraging your teen's independence

Teens with sickle cell disease may need encouragement to become more independent with taking their medications as instructed, filling their prescriptions and making clinic appointments. Learn what you can do to encourage your teen to manage their condition independently.

Chronic pain: Effective parenting for teens

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

What to do when your teen is not learning new health-care skills

Learn some of the reasons why teens may stop doing self-care tasks and what you can do to help them. Also learn about some of the issues that teens with special needs have and how to help them learn new tasks.

Teenagers and chronic pain

Learn about chronic pain in teenagers and the effect that it may have. Pain management, responsibilities, drinking and drug use are discussed.

Chronic pain: Effective parenting for older children

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

How the iCanCope with Sickle Cell Pain program works

This program is for teens aged 12 to 18 and their caregivers. It is designed to help teens learn how to better manage and live with sickle cell pain.

Physical activity and sport post lung transplant

Learn about the important role physical activity plays in improving the social, emotional and physical health of children who have had a lung 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.

Suicide and self-harm

Read about suicide and self-harm, including why these thoughts may occur, the signs and symptoms and how to find help.

Chronic pain

Learn about chronic pain in children and teens. Chronic pain is pain that lasts longer than three months and requires various pain management techniques.

Growing independence for children with heart disease

Learn about encouraging self-care in children with congenital heart disease.

Managing sickle cell pain

Learn about the 3P approach to pain management, which is a combination of psychological, physical and pharmacological (medications) strategies.

Supporting your mental health and well-being

Learn about how to support your physical, mental and social health when you have a chronic condition.

How a child becomes more independent

Learn about different factors that affect how your child is able to take on more responsibility for their self-care.

Living with a chronic condition: Overview

​Find out how a chronic condition affects your child's mental health and how to help them adjust to a recent diagnosis.

Chronic pain: How to assess in older children

​Discover the signs of chronic pain in an older child and how chronic pain is assessed in medical settings.

Maintaining your treatment program

Sickle cell disease: Review of Modules 1 to 5

Review the information you learned in Modules 1 to 5 of the iCanCope with Sickle Cell Pain program.

Promoting self-esteem in children

Self-esteem is how we feel about our abilities and strengths, including our ability to overcome challenges.

Feeling good about yourself when you have juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)

Hemophilia and setting goals

Teens living with hemophilia can learn why goal-setting is an important part of their self-care routine.