WEBSITES

Social Media Resources to Support Your Mental Health - Kids Help Phone

• Article with resources that can help individuals learn more about social media and set boundaries around when and how to use it.

• Audience: Parents and Families, Youth

Parenting, Media, and Everything in Between - Common Sense Media

• Articles, guides and videos media and social media.

• Audience: Parents and Families

GetCyberSafe.Ca - Government of Canada

• Website for the national public awareness campaign created to inform Canadians about cyber security and the simple steps they can take to protect themselves online.

• Audience: Parents and Families, Youth

How Using Social Media Affects Teenagers - Child Mind Institute

• Article about social media effects on teenagers.

• Audience: Parents and Families, Youth

Social Media: What Parents Should Know - Canadian Paediatric Society

• Foundational information on social media, safe usage, limits, online privacy, cyber bullying, and sexting.

• Audience: Parents and Families, Youth

Digital media: Promoting healthy screen use in school-aged children and adolescents - Canadian Paediatric Society

• Position statement on how health care providers can promote healthy screen and social media use in children and youth.

• Audience: Health Professionals

VIDEOS

The Parent Network: Social Media and Your Kids - Managing Excessive Use - MediaSmarts

• Tips for parents on how to manage and monitor the amount of time kids spend on social media, alongside the impacts of social media on physical and mental wellbeing.

• Audience: Parents and Families

Social Media, Social Life: Teens Reveal Their Experiences - Common Sense Media

• Video about both the positive and negative experiences teens have had with social media, told by teens.

• Audience: Parents and Families, Youth

INFORMATION HANDOUTS

Teaching Kids to be Smart about Social Media - KidsHealth

• Article about the good and bad aspects of social media and what parents can do.

• Audience: Parents and Families

Social Media for Kids: The good, the bad, and the ugly - Kids Baron

• Article that looks at both sides of the argument and tries to come to a conclusion about whether or not kids should be using social media.

• Audience: Parents and Families

EDUCATIONAL MODULES

Break the Fake: How to tell what's true online - MediaSmarts

• Online workshop to help differentiate real from fake information online.

• Audience: Youth