RISE For Health: 2018

Explore our lesson topics and materials from 2018.

The 4 Pillars

The 4 Pillars

Our sessions focused on mental, physical, and social health as well as skill development this year.

Skill Development

Skill Development

Throughout these sessions students participated in activities that helped them practice and develop various skills that will be beneficial to them going forward including leadership, communication, collaboration, research & scientific inquiry.

Lesson Topics

The program is a two-month program that delivers topics on health and wellness to immigrant and refugee high school students across Calgary. Students are taught in diverse topics of physical, social, and mental health along with sessions on skill development. Throughout these sessions students will participate in activities that will help them practice and develop various skills that will be beneficial to them going forward including leadership, communication, collaboration, research & scientific inquiry.

Skill Development

  • Leadership session
  • Scholarship and University Admissions planning
  • Lab visit (in collaboration with IGEM)
  • Qualitative research
  • Career share

Social Health

  • Population and public health
  • Social determinants of Health
  • Health outcome of migration and residence
  • Health community; Health promotion and preventative diseases
  • Gender and equality
  • First Nations Health

Mental Health

  • Drug & Addiction
  • Mental Health and Stress
  • Preservation

Physical Health

  • Kinesiology
  • Nutrition
  • Sports day

Highlighted Lecture Slides

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