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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

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.

Behavioural disorders: How to help your child at home

Learn how to manage your child's difficult behaviour.

Behavioural disorders: Signs and symptoms

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

Steps towards independence

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

Dealing with teasing and bullying after a transplant

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.

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.

Routine self-monitoring after a liver transplant

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.

Body image

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

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-monitoring: Recognizing symptoms and side effects

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

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.

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.

Liver transplant: Talking with healthcare providers on your own

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.

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.

Your three-sentence health summary

A three-sentence health summary is a short statement about your health history, treatment and concerns. Learn how to create your own three-sentence health summary.

Port insertion: Caring for your child at home after the procedure

Learn how to properly care for your child at home after a port insertion.

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT)

Learn what blood clots are, how they form, how they are treated, and complications that can occur because of them.