Most Recent Resources
Cannabis
Booklet, Revised 2024
This booklet provides information about cannabis and its short- and long- term effects. In addition, the booklet provides information about cannabis use during pregnancy, breastfeeding, and while parenting. The potential harms of cannabis for children and youth are outlined, including additional resources and support information.
SKU: 3-010
Starting the Conversations©: Grades 4-9 Lesson Plans
Lesson Plans, 2024
Starting the Conversations©: Creating Space to Develop Health Communication Skills in the Classroom, Grades 4-9 Lesson Plans, has been created for Saskatchewan educators to use with students when discussing topics related to health, support, and substance use. Each module contains lessons to use in your classroom, including module rationale, curricular outcomes, key understandings, materials for activities and handouts, links to further information, and assessment rubrics.
SKU: 3-021
Safe Spaces for Youth Empowerment Poster
Poster, 2024
Creating safe spaces is important for the promotion of youth well-being, safety, and empowerment. This poster features the “S.A.F.E.S.P.A.C.E” acronym that supports individuals and organizations who work with youth in ensuring that every young person feels valued, heard, and respected.
SKU: 3-025
Safe Spaces for Youth Empowerment Brochure
Brochure, 2024
Creating safe spaces is important for the promotion of youth well-being, safety, and empowerment. This brochure provides information for individuals and organizations who work with youth to help ensure that every young person feels valued, heard, and respected.
SKU: 3-024
Motivational Interviewing Brochure
Brochure, 2024
This brochure is created for healthcare providers and highlights practical Motivational Interviewing strategies to help prevent alcohol-exposed pregnancies through empowering conversations. It also includes links to resources that will support these conversations.
SKU: 3-150
Be the Village Poster
Poster, 2023
This poster highlights the importance of collaborative efforts in supporting healthy pregnancies and preventing FASD.
SKU: 3-112
Be the Village Postcard
Information Card, 2023
This information card supports community members and service providers to understand the complexities of alcohol use during pregnancy and their role in supporting healthy pregnancies and preventing FASD.
SKU: 3-111
Opening the Doors to Difficult Conversations
Guide and Manual, 2024
Opening the Door to Difficult Conversations Toolkit© is designed to assist adult allies in promoting youth health by facilitating groups for youth of any gender identity between the ages of 13-18. The Youth Engagement Toolkit’s primary focus is the upstream prevention of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and other alcohol-related harms. Opening the Door to Difficult Conversations Toolkit© is the combination of three toolkits previously created by the Prevention Institute: At-Risk to Resilient©, The Way Forward©, and Just for Us©. These toolkits were combined and adapted to support accessibility, adaptivity, and inclusiveness.
Opening the Door to Difficult Conversations Toolkit© provides activities, tools, and information to help adult allies facilitate youth groups. Toolkit activities are designed to provide young people with reliable, accurate, and credible information to encourage them to reflect on their health, make informed decisions about conditions that influence their health, and promote the importance of seeking help when needed. Each activity provides adult allies with ways to open conversations with youth and facilitate discussions about their experiences with alcohol while providing education about alcohol use (their own, their friends, and their communities), alcohol-related harms, harm-reduction, and possible coping strategies. Activities help youth make links between substance use and an increased risk of unintended pregnancy (and subsequently, FASD), sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs), unhealthy relationships, impaired driving, violence, and injuries.
Please note: Access to the toolkit is restricted to those who have been trained to use either/or the Opening the Door to Difficult Conversations Toolkit©, At-Risk to Resilient Toolkit©, The Way Forward Toolkit©, or Just for Us Toolkit©. If you have taken one of these trainings, please contact info@skprevention.ca for the password needed to open this material.- Introduction Opening the Door
- Module 1 – Trust and Community Standards
- Module 2 – Move into the Circle
- Module 3 – Consent
- Module 4 – Pressures Youth Face
- Module 5 – Finding My Strengths
- Module 6 – Sex and Gender
- Module 7 – Sexual Violence
- Module 8 – Alcohol Awareness
- Opening Doors Toolkit Appendices
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SKU: 3-146-1
Understanding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD): A Resource for Service Providers
Booklet, 2023
This booklet provides basic information about alcohol, pregnancy, FASD, and approaches for supporting young children with FASD (0 to 6) and their families. The goal is to help prevent adverse impacts of FASD.
The online version of this booklet has been updated to reflect Canada’s new Guidance on Alcohol and Health released in 2023. The printed edition of this booklet currently available for order is the previous (2020) version. Information is provided within the booklet indicating how to access the new guidance.
SKU: 3-013
Trauma-Informed Youth Engagement
Brochure, 2022
The YAP Program adapted this resource from its partners Wisdom2Action and PREVnet to create an information card to assist youth service providers and organizations towards supporting youth who may have been impacted by trauma.
SKU: 3-016
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Understanding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD): A Resource for Service Providers
Booklet, 2023
This booklet provides basic information about alcohol, pregnancy, FASD, and approaches for supporting young children with FASD (0 to 6) and their families. The goal is to help prevent adverse impacts of FASD.
The online version of this booklet has been updated to reflect Canada’s new Guidance on Alcohol and Health released in 2023. The printed edition of this booklet currently available for order is the previous (2020) version. Information is provided within the booklet indicating how to access the new guidance.
SKU: 3-013
FASD Awareness Day Package
Booklet, Revised 2019
This package includes background information on FASD Awareness Day and suggestions for activities. It also includes a planning and reporting form to track activities.
SKU: 3-127
Safe Spaces for Youth Empowerment Brochure
Brochure, 2024
Creating safe spaces is important for the promotion of youth well-being, safety, and empowerment. This brochure provides information for individuals and organizations who work with youth to help ensure that every young person feels valued, heard, and respected.
SKU: 3-024Motivational Interviewing Brochure
Brochure, 2024
This brochure is created for healthcare providers and highlights practical Motivational Interviewing strategies to help prevent alcohol-exposed pregnancies through empowering conversations. It also includes links to resources that will support these conversations.
SKU: 3-150Trauma-Informed Youth Engagement
Brochure, 2022
The YAP Program adapted this resource from its partners Wisdom2Action and PREVnet to create an information card to assist youth service providers and organizations towards supporting youth who may have been impacted by trauma.
SKU: 3-016
Pregnancy and Alcohol: A Doctor’s Advice
Brochure, Revised 2019
This brochure includes a brief summary of medical research about the impact of alcohol on a developing fetus. It also provides information and advice that a doctor could give to women about how alcohol affects a developing baby, and steps a woman can take to protect her unborn baby from exposure to alcohol. Included in the brochure are some ideas about supports to help women quit drinking.
SKU: 3-151
Starting the Conversations©: Grades 4-9 Lesson Plans
Lesson Plans, 2024
Starting the Conversations©: Creating Space to Develop Health Communication Skills in the Classroom, Grades 4-9 Lesson Plans, has been created for Saskatchewan educators to use with students when discussing topics related to health, support, and substance use. Each module contains lessons to use in your classroom, including module rationale, curricular outcomes, key understandings, materials for activities and handouts, links to further information, and assessment rubrics.
SKU: 3-021
Learning about FASD – Modules
Guide and Manual, Revised 2020
The Learning about FASD Modules were developed for use by post-secondary instructors, professors, and anyone wishing to learn more about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Each module has been updated to reflect the most current research. Here you will find modules (with references) as they are brought up-to-date.
The modules can be used in professional programs where students, upon graduation, may work with women of childbearing age. The programs may include health care, education, justice, addictions, psychology, social work, and other community service programs.
Click the Download File button below to get all the modules or click just the modules that you want from the following links:
- Module 2: Overview of FASD
- Module 3: Fetal Development
- Module 4: Brain Anatomy, Development, and Function
- Module 5: Role and Impact of Alcohol
- Module 6: Prevention of FASD
- Module 7: Referral and Diagnosis of FASD
- Module 8: Young Children with FASD
- Module 9: Adverse Impacts
- Module 10: Trauma Informed Care
SKU: 3-146
Zero Alcohol
Infographic, 2017
This infographic describes how zero alcohol is the safest choice when pregnant.
SKU: 3-055
Blindsided by the Alcohol Industry
Infographic, 2016
Youth Action for Prevention partnered with the What’s Your Cap? student group at the University of Saskatchewan to develop this educational infographic. It can be shared to raise awareness regarding the influence of the alcohol industry on young women’s drinking behaviours. This infographic was released September 2016 as part of Recovery Day activities on campus.
SKU: 3-007
Be the Village Postcard
Information Card, 2023
This information card supports community members and service providers to understand the complexities of alcohol use during pregnancy and their role in supporting healthy pregnancies and preventing FASD.
SKU: 3-111
Mental Wellness Card
Information Card, Revised, 2022
This card provides contact information for services providing free, anonymous mental health supports to youth.
SKU: 3-011
What Have You Heard about Pregnancy and Alcohol?
Information Card, Revised 2021
This information card is written in plain language, for people who are pregnant or trying to get pregnant. It explains how drinking alcohol can affect a developing baby and cause a lifelong disability.
SKU: 3-126
Screening for Alcohol Use
Information Card, Revised 2020
This screening tool has been adapted with permission from Best Start Resource Centre (Ontario). This tool helps health professionals screen for the level of alcohol risk in women of childbearing age. Research has shown that this screening tool has a higher sensitivity level for use with women than other screening tools.
Audience: Healthcare ProfessionalsSKU: 3-140
This Is Why I Supported Her Not to Drink
Information Card, 2018
This information card is aimed at fathers and fathers-to-be, suggesting they support their partners to avoid alcohol during pregnancy in order to prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. On the back of the card is information about how alcohol impacts the fetus and suggestions on how to provide support. There is a link to a website for more information.
SKU: 3-061
Cope Magazine
Magazine, 2016
Cope shares the voices of Saskatchewan young people and how they cope with challenges in their lives. The aim is that youth throughout the province will connect with other young peoples’ experiences, feel supported, and learn about healthy ways of coping with difficulties in their lives.
What’s Inside? Creative works which reveal the thoughts and opinions of young people and how they cope with challenges in their lives; the culture of alcohol consumption; a young man’s experience with addiction issues; the impact of addictions on family members; and sex, alcohol, and consent. In addition, the magazine explores youth finding outlets through music, getting involved, youth conference planning, and much more.
Cope was developed as part of the Youth Action for Prevention Program; a youth-focused FASD prevention program that raises awareness about alcohol-related harms and supports youth to create positive change in their communities. The articles and art in this magazine can be used to start conversations about the role of alcohol in the lives of young people and society, and ways to promote resilience.
SKU: 3-008
Safe Spaces for Youth Empowerment Poster
Poster, 2024
Creating safe spaces is important for the promotion of youth well-being, safety, and empowerment. This poster features the “S.A.F.E.S.P.A.C.E” acronym that supports individuals and organizations who work with youth in ensuring that every young person feels valued, heard, and respected.
SKU: 3-025Be the Village Poster
Poster, 2023
This poster highlights the importance of collaborative efforts in supporting healthy pregnancies and preventing FASD.
SKU: 3-112
A Teratogen is NOT a Dinosaur
Poster, Revised, 2019
This poster describes alcohol as a teratogen that can cause birth defects.
SKU: 3-153
No Thanks I’m Pregnant – (Cree ‘th’ Translation)
Poster, 2019
This 11” x 17” poster, translated to Cree ‘th’ dialect, shows a pregnant woman turning down a glass of wine because she is pregnant.
SKU: 3-056
This is Why Poster – (Dene Translation)
Poster, 2019
This 11” x 17” poster, translated to Dene ‘t’ dialect, is aimed at fathers and fathers-to-be, suggesting they support their partners to avoid alcohol during pregnancy in order to prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
SKU: 3-063
This is Why Poster – (Cree Translation)
Poster, 2019
This 11” x 17” poster, translated to Plains Cree, is aimed at fathers and fathers-to-be, suggesting they support their partners to avoid alcohol during pregnancy in order to prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
SKU: 3-062
This Is Why I Supported Her Not to Drink
Poster, 2018
This poster is aimed at fathers and fathers-to-be, suggesting they support their partners to avoid alcohol during pregnancy in order to prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
SKU: 3-060
No Thanks Poster – (Dene Translation)
Poster, 2017
This 11” x 17” poster, translated to Dene ‘t’ dialect, shows a pregnant woman turning down a glass of wine because she is pregnant.
SKU: 3-053
No Thanks Poster – (Cree Translation)
Poster, 2017
This 11” x 17” poster, translated to Plains Cree, shows a pregnant woman turning down a glass of wine because she is pregnant.
SKU: 3-052
Thank You Mom
Poster, 2011
This series of nine posters was developed by Saskatchewan youth through the Saskatchewan Prevention Institute’s Youth Action for Prevention project. Each poster depicts a different young person thanking their mother for not drinking alcohol during pregnancy. Posters feature English, French, and Cree messages. Nine youth were chosen for the campaign to represent both the nine months of pregnancy and the variety of people to whom the message of preventing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is relevant. Each poster includes a QR scan code, allowing people with smartphones to link directly to the accompanying “Thank You Mom” video, found at
SKU: 3-002
Using Motivational Interviewing to Engage Youth in Healthy Conversations About Alcohol
Report, 2022
If you work with youth aged 14-24, you have an opportunity to support young people during a period of tremendous growth, development, and transition. In your role(s), you can help to guide youth to make decisions that will support their health and well-being now and as they transition into adulthood and greater independence. This module introduces motivational interviewing skills and strategies that can help those working with youth to engage them in conversations about their health and well-being. Engaged youth are those that feel valued and empowered to make their own decisions about their well-being, engage in healthy conversations, seek support, and share information with peers.
SKU: 3-020
Becoming Trauma-informed: Trauma-informed Practices and How They can be Implemented in Relation to the Pre-conception, Prenatal, and Postnatal Period
Report, 2022
Trauma involves an experience or experiences that are physically or emotionally harmful and result in long-term negative effects on functioning and well-being. Many people experience trauma during their lifetime. Having experienced trauma may play a role in sexual risk behaviours, unplanned pregnancies, substance misuse and dependence, and negative impacts on pregnancy, parenting, and children. Given the prevalence and impact of trauma during the perinatal period, it is recommended that services and interventions have a trauma-informed approach. This review examines recent literature on the impacts of trauma, and a trauma-informed approach to working with families, particularly in the pre-conception, prenatal, and postnatal period.
SKU: 3-015
Health Promotion Through Youth Engagement: An Environmental Scan of Canadian Programs
Report, 2021
Issues of youth alcohol and drug use, sexual health, and mental health are inextricably linked, and youth with limited access to services and resources are likely at an increased risk of related harms. Extensive research has demonstrated the effectiveness of youth engagement supported by adult allies for addressing youth health, particularly the prevention of alcohol-related harms and the promotion of sexual health. This report shares information about youth engagement programs and activities across Canada that deliver harm reduction, health-promoting programming for youth that are harder to reach and/or those who experience marginalization based on identity, geographic location, class, etc. The purpose of this document is to provide inspiration, context, and contacts from existing programs to facilitate the development of innovative youth engagement programs in Saskatchewan.
SKU: 3-014
FASD: Let’s Talk About It
Video, 2018
This DVD contains 12 short videos with Myles Himmelreich. These videos may be used for viewing or in presentations. Topics include:
- What is FASD?
- FASD: A message for future parents
- Diagnosis: The start to a better understanding of FASD
- FASD: Doctors play an important role
- FASD: Prevention, awareness, support, and understanding
- FASD: Let’s move from shame and blame, to support and care
- FASD: Living with a brain and body disability
- FASD: No on/off switch
- FASD: Living with sensory issues and challenges
- FASD: Let’s support mothers and children
- FASD: I struggle but I also succeed
- FASD: Physical challenges
SKU: 3-049
Moment to Moment: Teens Growing up with FASDs
Video, 2015
This video explores the lives of four adolescents living with FASDs and the effects that prenatal alcohol exposure has had and continues to have on their journeys to finding independence, fulfillment, and understanding the world around them.
SKU: 3-V-316
Everything You Need to Know about Alcohol in 22 Minutes
Video, 2009
This DVD shows that teenage drinkers are more likely to experience health problems, school problems, and social dysfunction. It shows the effects of alcohol on the liver, immune system, and gastro-intestinal system, and how binge drinking can lead to alcohol poisoning and death. It also explains how alcohol impacts brain development during adolescence and permanently damages parts of the brain associated with memory. The video details how a mother’s drinking during pregnancy can cause Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and its impact on her child’s entire life. It includes first-person accounts of teens’ DUI tragedies, and describes the legal ramifications of underage drinking. The video helps viewers determine whether they have a drinking problem, plus where and how to get help.
Audience: Grades 7-12SKU: 3-V-368
Precious Gift
Video, 1997
Filmed on the Beardy’s and Okemasis Reserve in Saskatchewan, Precious Gift deals with the issue of drinking during pregnancy. It portrays a real life situation focusing on the life of a young Aboriginal woman, who is pregnant and seeks guidance about making healthy choices from friends and family.
SKU: 3-110
Binge Drinking: Facts and Consequences
Video, 2004
Drinking to get drunk, or binge drinking, is a common occurrence among teens that use alcohol. Teens report many reasons for their preoccupation with drinking. For some, drinking is meant to relieve stress or help them fit in socially. For others it is used to celebrate and have a good time. In this program real teens share their reasons for drinking and the grave consequences that resulted from their behavior. Experts in the field of alcohol use present the hard facts teens need to know about alcohol’s toxicity and teen vulnerability. Real teens talk about: how to handle peer pressure to drink; the effect of drinking on relationships; the ineffectiveness of alcohol for stress reduction; loss of trust with parents; and the negative effect drinking has on school work. Dramatic accounts from two teens, one who was almost raped and one who almost died while drinking heavily, bring home the seriousness of binge drinking.
SKU: 3-V-364
Picture This: Life as a Parent of Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Video, 2008
This film gives a close-up look into the lives of parents whose children have FASD. It was created by five courageous women from Sioux Lookout, Ontario. They are all members of the Healthy Generations Family Support Program. It is a very powerful, very honest window into their lives.
This film began as a photovoice research project. Each woman was asked to take photos that provide a look into her life as a parent of a child with FASD and to write a narrative about the photo. The National Film Board of Canada’s CITIZENShift assisted by making the photos and the narratives into this short film.
SKU: 3-V-312
Parenting with FASD: Challenges, Strategies, and Supports
Video, 2005
Featuring four adults living and parenting with FASD, this video focuses on some of the parenting-related experiences and challenges faced by people with FASD. Highlighted as well are strategies, suggestions, and resources found to promote positive parenting. A resource booklet is included.
SKU: 3-V-311
Most Recent Resources
Cannabis
Booklet, Revised 2024
This booklet provides information about cannabis and its short- and long- term effects. In addition, the booklet provides information about cannabis use during pregnancy, breastfeeding, and while parenting. The potential harms of cannabis for children and youth are outlined, including additional resources and support information.
SKU: 3-010Starting the Conversations©: Grades 4-9 Lesson Plans
Lesson Plans, 2024
Starting the Conversations©: Creating Space to Develop Health Communication Skills in the Classroom, Grades 4-9 Lesson Plans, has been created for Saskatchewan educators to use with students when discussing topics related to health, support, and substance use. Each module contains lessons to use in your classroom, including module rationale, curricular outcomes, key understandings, materials for activities and handouts, links to further information, and assessment rubrics.
SKU: 3-021
Safe Spaces for Youth Empowerment Poster
Poster, 2024
Creating safe spaces is important for the promotion of youth well-being, safety, and empowerment. This poster features the “S.A.F.E.S.P.A.C.E” acronym that supports individuals and organizations who work with youth in ensuring that every young person feels valued, heard, and respected.
SKU: 3-025Safe Spaces for Youth Empowerment Brochure
Brochure, 2024
Creating safe spaces is important for the promotion of youth well-being, safety, and empowerment. This brochure provides information for individuals and organizations who work with youth to help ensure that every young person feels valued, heard, and respected.
SKU: 3-024
Motivational Interviewing Brochure
Brochure, 2024
This brochure is created for healthcare providers and highlights practical Motivational Interviewing strategies to help prevent alcohol-exposed pregnancies through empowering conversations. It also includes links to resources that will support these conversations.
SKU: 3-150Be the Village Poster
Poster, 2023
This poster highlights the importance of collaborative efforts in supporting healthy pregnancies and preventing FASD.
SKU: 3-112
Be the Village Postcard
Information Card, 2023
This information card supports community members and service providers to understand the complexities of alcohol use during pregnancy and their role in supporting healthy pregnancies and preventing FASD.
SKU: 3-111Opening the Doors to Difficult Conversations
Guide and Manual, 2024
Opening the Door to Difficult Conversations Toolkit© is designed to assist adult allies in promoting youth health by facilitating groups for youth of any gender identity between the ages of 13-18. The Youth Engagement Toolkit’s primary focus is the upstream prevention of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and other alcohol-related harms. Opening the Door to Difficult Conversations Toolkit© is the combination of three toolkits previously created by the Prevention Institute: At-Risk to Resilient©, The Way Forward©, and Just for Us©. These toolkits were combined and adapted to support accessibility, adaptivity, and inclusiveness.
Opening the Door to Difficult Conversations Toolkit© provides activities, tools, and information to help adult allies facilitate youth groups. Toolkit activities are designed to provide young people with reliable, accurate, and credible information to encourage them to reflect on their health, make informed decisions about conditions that influence their health, and promote the importance of seeking help when needed. Each activity provides adult allies with ways to open conversations with youth and facilitate discussions about their experiences with alcohol while providing education about alcohol use (their own, their friends, and their communities), alcohol-related harms, harm-reduction, and possible coping strategies. Activities help youth make links between substance use and an increased risk of unintended pregnancy (and subsequently, FASD), sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs), unhealthy relationships, impaired driving, violence, and injuries.
Please note: Access to the toolkit is restricted to those who have been trained to use either/or the Opening the Door to Difficult Conversations Toolkit©, At-Risk to Resilient Toolkit©, The Way Forward Toolkit©, or Just for Us Toolkit©. If you have taken one of these trainings, please contact info@skprevention.ca for the password needed to open this material.- Introduction Opening the Door
- Module 1 – Trust and Community Standards
- Module 2 – Move into the Circle
- Module 3 – Consent
- Module 4 – Pressures Youth Face
- Module 5 – Finding My Strengths
- Module 6 – Sex and Gender
- Module 7 – Sexual Violence
- Module 8 – Alcohol Awareness
- Opening Doors Toolkit Appendices
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SKU: 3-146-1
Understanding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD): A Resource for Service Providers
Booklet, 2023
This booklet provides basic information about alcohol, pregnancy, FASD, and approaches for supporting young children with FASD (0 to 6) and their families. The goal is to help prevent adverse impacts of FASD.
The online version of this booklet has been updated to reflect Canada’s new Guidance on Alcohol and Health released in 2023. The printed edition of this booklet currently available for order is the previous (2020) version. Information is provided within the booklet indicating how to access the new guidance.
SKU: 3-013Trauma-Informed Youth Engagement
Brochure, 2022
The YAP Program adapted this resource from its partners Wisdom2Action and PREVnet to create an information card to assist youth service providers and organizations towards supporting youth who may have been impacted by trauma.
SKU: 3-016
Booklets
Understanding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD): A Resource for Service Providers
Booklet, 2023
This booklet provides basic information about alcohol, pregnancy, FASD, and approaches for supporting young children with FASD (0 to 6) and their families. The goal is to help prevent adverse impacts of FASD.
The online version of this booklet has been updated to reflect Canada’s new Guidance on Alcohol and Health released in 2023. The printed edition of this booklet currently available for order is the previous (2020) version. Information is provided within the booklet indicating how to access the new guidance.
SKU: 3-013FASD Awareness Day Package
Booklet, Revised 2019
This package includes background information on FASD Awareness Day and suggestions for activities. It also includes a planning and reporting form to track activities.
SKU: 3-127
Brochures
Safe Spaces for Youth Empowerment Brochure
Brochure, 2024
Creating safe spaces is important for the promotion of youth well-being, safety, and empowerment. This brochure provides information for individuals and organizations who work with youth to help ensure that every young person feels valued, heard, and respected.
SKU: 3-024Motivational Interviewing Brochure
Brochure, 2024
This brochure is created for healthcare providers and highlights practical Motivational Interviewing strategies to help prevent alcohol-exposed pregnancies through empowering conversations. It also includes links to resources that will support these conversations.
SKU: 3-150Trauma-Informed Youth Engagement
Brochure, 2022
The YAP Program adapted this resource from its partners Wisdom2Action and PREVnet to create an information card to assist youth service providers and organizations towards supporting youth who may have been impacted by trauma.
SKU: 3-016Pregnancy and Alcohol: A Doctor’s Advice
Brochure, Revised 2019
This brochure includes a brief summary of medical research about the impact of alcohol on a developing fetus. It also provides information and advice that a doctor could give to women about how alcohol affects a developing baby, and steps a woman can take to protect her unborn baby from exposure to alcohol. Included in the brochure are some ideas about supports to help women quit drinking.
SKU: 3-151
Fact Sheets
Guides and Manuals
Starting the Conversations©: Grades 4-9 Lesson Plans
Lesson Plans, 2024
Starting the Conversations©: Creating Space to Develop Health Communication Skills in the Classroom, Grades 4-9 Lesson Plans, has been created for Saskatchewan educators to use with students when discussing topics related to health, support, and substance use. Each module contains lessons to use in your classroom, including module rationale, curricular outcomes, key understandings, materials for activities and handouts, links to further information, and assessment rubrics.
SKU: 3-021Learning about FASD – Modules
Guide and Manual, Revised 2020
The Learning about FASD Modules were developed for use by post-secondary instructors, professors, and anyone wishing to learn more about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Each module has been updated to reflect the most current research. Here you will find modules (with references) as they are brought up-to-date.
The modules can be used in professional programs where students, upon graduation, may work with women of childbearing age. The programs may include health care, education, justice, addictions, psychology, social work, and other community service programs.
Click the Download File button below to get all the modules or click just the modules that you want from the following links:
- Module 2: Overview of FASD
- Module 3: Fetal Development
- Module 4: Brain Anatomy, Development, and Function
- Module 5: Role and Impact of Alcohol
- Module 6: Prevention of FASD
- Module 7: Referral and Diagnosis of FASD
- Module 8: Young Children with FASD
- Module 9: Adverse Impacts
- Module 10: Trauma Informed Care
SKU: 3-146
Infographics
Zero Alcohol
Infographic, 2017
This infographic describes how zero alcohol is the safest choice when pregnant.
SKU: 3-055Blindsided by the Alcohol Industry
Infographic, 2016
Youth Action for Prevention partnered with the What’s Your Cap? student group at the University of Saskatchewan to develop this educational infographic. It can be shared to raise awareness regarding the influence of the alcohol industry on young women’s drinking behaviours. This infographic was released September 2016 as part of Recovery Day activities on campus.
SKU: 3-007
Information Cards
Be the Village Postcard
Information Card, 2023
This information card supports community members and service providers to understand the complexities of alcohol use during pregnancy and their role in supporting healthy pregnancies and preventing FASD.
SKU: 3-111Mental Wellness Card
Information Card, Revised, 2022
This card provides contact information for services providing free, anonymous mental health supports to youth.
SKU: 3-011What Have You Heard about Pregnancy and Alcohol?
Information Card, Revised 2021
This information card is written in plain language, for people who are pregnant or trying to get pregnant. It explains how drinking alcohol can affect a developing baby and cause a lifelong disability.
SKU: 3-126Screening for Alcohol Use
Information Card, Revised 2020
This screening tool has been adapted with permission from Best Start Resource Centre (Ontario). This tool helps health professionals screen for the level of alcohol risk in women of childbearing age. Research has shown that this screening tool has a higher sensitivity level for use with women than other screening tools.
Audience: Healthcare ProfessionalsSKU: 3-140This Is Why I Supported Her Not to Drink
Information Card, 2018
This information card is aimed at fathers and fathers-to-be, suggesting they support their partners to avoid alcohol during pregnancy in order to prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. On the back of the card is information about how alcohol impacts the fetus and suggestions on how to provide support. There is a link to a website for more information.
SKU: 3-061
Magazines
Cope Magazine
Magazine, 2016
Cope shares the voices of Saskatchewan young people and how they cope with challenges in their lives. The aim is that youth throughout the province will connect with other young peoples’ experiences, feel supported, and learn about healthy ways of coping with difficulties in their lives.
What’s Inside? Creative works which reveal the thoughts and opinions of young people and how they cope with challenges in their lives; the culture of alcohol consumption; a young man’s experience with addiction issues; the impact of addictions on family members; and sex, alcohol, and consent. In addition, the magazine explores youth finding outlets through music, getting involved, youth conference planning, and much more.
Cope was developed as part of the Youth Action for Prevention Program; a youth-focused FASD prevention program that raises awareness about alcohol-related harms and supports youth to create positive change in their communities. The articles and art in this magazine can be used to start conversations about the role of alcohol in the lives of young people and society, and ways to promote resilience.
SKU: 3-008
Posters
Safe Spaces for Youth Empowerment Poster
Poster, 2024
Creating safe spaces is important for the promotion of youth well-being, safety, and empowerment. This poster features the “S.A.F.E.S.P.A.C.E” acronym that supports individuals and organizations who work with youth in ensuring that every young person feels valued, heard, and respected.
SKU: 3-025Be the Village Poster
Poster, 2023
This poster highlights the importance of collaborative efforts in supporting healthy pregnancies and preventing FASD.
SKU: 3-112A Teratogen is NOT a Dinosaur
Poster, Revised, 2019
This poster describes alcohol as a teratogen that can cause birth defects.
SKU: 3-153No Thanks I’m Pregnant – (Cree ‘th’ Translation)
Poster, 2019
This 11” x 17” poster, translated to Cree ‘th’ dialect, shows a pregnant woman turning down a glass of wine because she is pregnant.
SKU: 3-056This is Why Poster – (Dene Translation)
Poster, 2019
This 11” x 17” poster, translated to Dene ‘t’ dialect, is aimed at fathers and fathers-to-be, suggesting they support their partners to avoid alcohol during pregnancy in order to prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
SKU: 3-063This is Why Poster – (Cree Translation)
Poster, 2019
This 11” x 17” poster, translated to Plains Cree, is aimed at fathers and fathers-to-be, suggesting they support their partners to avoid alcohol during pregnancy in order to prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
SKU: 3-062This Is Why I Supported Her Not to Drink
Poster, 2018
This poster is aimed at fathers and fathers-to-be, suggesting they support their partners to avoid alcohol during pregnancy in order to prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
SKU: 3-060No Thanks Poster – (Dene Translation)
Poster, 2017
This 11” x 17” poster, translated to Dene ‘t’ dialect, shows a pregnant woman turning down a glass of wine because she is pregnant.
SKU: 3-053No Thanks Poster – (Cree Translation)
Poster, 2017
This 11” x 17” poster, translated to Plains Cree, shows a pregnant woman turning down a glass of wine because she is pregnant.
SKU: 3-052Thank You Mom
Poster, 2011
This series of nine posters was developed by Saskatchewan youth through the Saskatchewan Prevention Institute’s Youth Action for Prevention project. Each poster depicts a different young person thanking their mother for not drinking alcohol during pregnancy. Posters feature English, French, and Cree messages. Nine youth were chosen for the campaign to represent both the nine months of pregnancy and the variety of people to whom the message of preventing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is relevant. Each poster includes a QR scan code, allowing people with smartphones to link directly to the accompanying “Thank You Mom” video, found at
SKU: 3-002
Reports
Using Motivational Interviewing to Engage Youth in Healthy Conversations About Alcohol
Report, 2022
If you work with youth aged 14-24, you have an opportunity to support young people during a period of tremendous growth, development, and transition. In your role(s), you can help to guide youth to make decisions that will support their health and well-being now and as they transition into adulthood and greater independence. This module introduces motivational interviewing skills and strategies that can help those working with youth to engage them in conversations about their health and well-being. Engaged youth are those that feel valued and empowered to make their own decisions about their well-being, engage in healthy conversations, seek support, and share information with peers.
SKU: 3-020Becoming Trauma-informed: Trauma-informed Practices and How They can be Implemented in Relation to the Pre-conception, Prenatal, and Postnatal Period
Report, 2022
Trauma involves an experience or experiences that are physically or emotionally harmful and result in long-term negative effects on functioning and well-being. Many people experience trauma during their lifetime. Having experienced trauma may play a role in sexual risk behaviours, unplanned pregnancies, substance misuse and dependence, and negative impacts on pregnancy, parenting, and children. Given the prevalence and impact of trauma during the perinatal period, it is recommended that services and interventions have a trauma-informed approach. This review examines recent literature on the impacts of trauma, and a trauma-informed approach to working with families, particularly in the pre-conception, prenatal, and postnatal period.
SKU: 3-015Health Promotion Through Youth Engagement: An Environmental Scan of Canadian Programs
Report, 2021
Issues of youth alcohol and drug use, sexual health, and mental health are inextricably linked, and youth with limited access to services and resources are likely at an increased risk of related harms. Extensive research has demonstrated the effectiveness of youth engagement supported by adult allies for addressing youth health, particularly the prevention of alcohol-related harms and the promotion of sexual health. This report shares information about youth engagement programs and activities across Canada that deliver harm reduction, health-promoting programming for youth that are harder to reach and/or those who experience marginalization based on identity, geographic location, class, etc. The purpose of this document is to provide inspiration, context, and contacts from existing programs to facilitate the development of innovative youth engagement programs in Saskatchewan.
SKU: 3-014
Videos
FASD: Let’s Talk About It
Video, 2018
This DVD contains 12 short videos with Myles Himmelreich. These videos may be used for viewing or in presentations. Topics include:
- What is FASD?
- FASD: A message for future parents
- Diagnosis: The start to a better understanding of FASD
- FASD: Doctors play an important role
- FASD: Prevention, awareness, support, and understanding
- FASD: Let’s move from shame and blame, to support and care
- FASD: Living with a brain and body disability
- FASD: No on/off switch
- FASD: Living with sensory issues and challenges
- FASD: Let’s support mothers and children
- FASD: I struggle but I also succeed
- FASD: Physical challenges
SKU: 3-049Moment to Moment: Teens Growing up with FASDs
Video, 2015
This video explores the lives of four adolescents living with FASDs and the effects that prenatal alcohol exposure has had and continues to have on their journeys to finding independence, fulfillment, and understanding the world around them.
SKU: 3-V-316Everything You Need to Know about Alcohol in 22 Minutes
Video, 2009
This DVD shows that teenage drinkers are more likely to experience health problems, school problems, and social dysfunction. It shows the effects of alcohol on the liver, immune system, and gastro-intestinal system, and how binge drinking can lead to alcohol poisoning and death. It also explains how alcohol impacts brain development during adolescence and permanently damages parts of the brain associated with memory. The video details how a mother’s drinking during pregnancy can cause Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and its impact on her child’s entire life. It includes first-person accounts of teens’ DUI tragedies, and describes the legal ramifications of underage drinking. The video helps viewers determine whether they have a drinking problem, plus where and how to get help.
Audience: Grades 7-12SKU: 3-V-368Precious Gift
Video, 1997
Filmed on the Beardy’s and Okemasis Reserve in Saskatchewan, Precious Gift deals with the issue of drinking during pregnancy. It portrays a real life situation focusing on the life of a young Aboriginal woman, who is pregnant and seeks guidance about making healthy choices from friends and family.
SKU: 3-110Binge Drinking: Facts and Consequences
Video, 2004
Drinking to get drunk, or binge drinking, is a common occurrence among teens that use alcohol. Teens report many reasons for their preoccupation with drinking. For some, drinking is meant to relieve stress or help them fit in socially. For others it is used to celebrate and have a good time. In this program real teens share their reasons for drinking and the grave consequences that resulted from their behavior. Experts in the field of alcohol use present the hard facts teens need to know about alcohol’s toxicity and teen vulnerability. Real teens talk about: how to handle peer pressure to drink; the effect of drinking on relationships; the ineffectiveness of alcohol for stress reduction; loss of trust with parents; and the negative effect drinking has on school work. Dramatic accounts from two teens, one who was almost raped and one who almost died while drinking heavily, bring home the seriousness of binge drinking.
SKU: 3-V-364Picture This: Life as a Parent of Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Video, 2008
This film gives a close-up look into the lives of parents whose children have FASD. It was created by five courageous women from Sioux Lookout, Ontario. They are all members of the Healthy Generations Family Support Program. It is a very powerful, very honest window into their lives.
This film began as a photovoice research project. Each woman was asked to take photos that provide a look into her life as a parent of a child with FASD and to write a narrative about the photo. The National Film Board of Canada’s CITIZENShift assisted by making the photos and the narratives into this short film.
SKU: 3-V-312Parenting with FASD: Challenges, Strategies, and Supports
Video, 2005
Featuring four adults living and parenting with FASD, this video focuses on some of the parenting-related experiences and challenges faced by people with FASD. Highlighted as well are strategies, suggestions, and resources found to promote positive parenting. A resource booklet is included.
SKU: 3-V-311