Rosen: Teen Health and Wellness

description: Rosen’s award-winning Teen Health & Wellness (THW) database provides students with up-to-date, nonjudgmental, straightforward curricular, and self-help support. Articles are correlated to the Alberta Standards of Learning in Health & PE, Language Arts, Science, and now to the CASEL (Collaborative for Academic Social Emotional Learning) Framework.

        Topics covered include: diseases, drugs, alcohol, sexuality & sexual health, nutrition, mental health, suicide, LGBTQ+ issues, skills for school, work, and life, and more. Now with new and expanded content on COVID-19, racism, bullying, suicide, opioid abuse, gender identity, school safety, sexual consent, human trafficking, vaping, mindfulness/meditation, and more.

        THW supports social emotional learning with articles on relationship skills, decision-making, growth mindset, social engagement, diversity, more. Encourage empathy with teen voices, student created stories and videos, on kindness, self-esteem, depression, divorce, being adopted, more. The Personal Story Project and It’s Your Cause Video Challenge invite student to create and publish, promoting empathy with stories from peers around the world, and video PSAs on issues they care about.

        This resource now integrates with  “AccessiBe,” an accessibility tool for users with disabilities. Users can adjust AccessiBe’s settings to clear flashes, enhance visuals, reduce distractions, increase focus, and optimize for screen readers, among other features. For users with screen readers, the tool is enabled automatically.  Dyslexic font is also available.