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Helping teachers navigate ADHD in the classroom

And so….this started out as a project with BC Children’s Hospital to produce a video series of eight ten-minute videos providing school teachers with information about how to optimize their classes for ADHD students. The project blossomed into something VERY different from the original expectations. Research indicated that the teachers wanted highly practical strategies that…

Indigenous Partnership Reclaims Outdoors for Early Childhood Education

The Challenge Early Child Education BC (ECEBC) and BC Aboriginal Child Care Society (BCACCS) were asked to produce a groundbreaking course to help Early Childhood Educators and Centre Managers to really reframe the outdoors as the central focus of early childhood education. They asked Learnbase to help strategize and produce the course. Our Solution…

Lifelong Learning Resource Supports Professionals Supporting Mental Health

The Challenge BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services approached us to build a web application to support lifelong learning for professionals of many levels working with mental health and substance use patients. BCMHSUS had already created the prototype in a PDF form. It enabled professionals to assess their current competencies pertaining to domains of…

Streamlining ADHD Diagnosis and Support Across Canada

The Challenge The Canadian ADHD Resource Alliance (CADDRA) approached us with two separate requests: > To build a secure, paperless system to solve the problem of how clinicians can send, receive and rapidly analyze and diagnose patients with ADHD (and associated conditions like anxiety) > To build education around the CADDRA recommended steps for diagnosing…

Strategizing Health Literacy with Integral Learning and Development

The Challenge BC Children’s Hospital Health Promotion and Health Literacy Department commissioned Learnbase to produce a research-based education strategy. Research findings were acquired through the systematic gathering of both qualitative and quantitative data. Findings were used to generate insight and recommendations. The general goal of the research is to support the department’s vision to: become…

Nurturing Deep Ethical Awareness in ECE Professionals

The Challenge In 2019, ECEBC received funding from the Ministry for Children and Family Development to review and update the ECEBC Code of Ethics and accompanying Best Choices program. The Code is the cornerstone of ethical practice and decision making within the early childhood education sector in BC and beyond, and Best Choices had so…

Providing a Consolidated Social Learning Hub for BC Early Childhood Educator Development

The Challenge When the BC government allotted significant funding to a number of the key organizations providing support, training and guidelines to within Early Childhood Education sector, the organizations had the foresight to create a single social training hub and they asked Learnbase to help. We were well versed in most of the technology pieces…

Providing Essential Mental Health Rights Information and Reassurance for Recently Certified Youth

The Challenge In 2019 we were approached by The Health Literacy Team, part of the BC Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA). The aim of the Health Literacy Team is to enhance the physical and mental health and well-being of BC’s children, youth, and families through health promotion and health literacy. The project lead explained…

Stealth Learning for Mental Health Clinicians and Support Staff

The Challenge We had conducted an in-depth research and educational strategy project for Compass Mental Health, a new division within the BC Provincial Health Authority aimed at supporting all levels of clinician and non-clinician staff supporting child and youth mental health in different capacities. One thing was clear. The clinicians did not want ‘more modules’…

Taking Impactful ADHD Support for Parents from 30 to 5000 Learners a year.

Client: BC Children’s Hospital / Provincial Health Services Authority (BC) Product: Rolling with ADHD, an eight-module course for parents of children with ADHD. Highlight: Unique course delivery using Learnbase Video Lesson Makers to avoid requirement for LMS for target learners. Results: Ability to expand learners reached from 30 to 5000+ annually. Rolling with ADHD was…