W9
Assess challenges related to community well-being and take action to address these challenges.
Indicators for this outcome
(a)

Reflect on past, present, and evolving wellness challenges (e.g., physical inactivity, sexual health issues, bullying, drinking and driving, gambling, transportation, unemployment, suicide) in the local community.

(b)

Examine local community norms and practices that affect the well- being of self, family, community, and the environment.

(c)

Develop and ask critical questions of particular local wellness challenges while respecting facts, knowledge, and social and cultural contexts.

(d)

Critique various points of view concerning community wellness to better understand the influence of underlying values or assumptions.

(e)

Discuss the complexities of wellness issues within one's community and investigate possible opportunities to address these issues.

(f)

Access resources (e.g., community, provincial, national) and agencies (e.g., Saskatchewan in motion, Public Health Agency of Canada) to support and address community wellness challenges.

(g)

Conclude that real-life challenges to well-being often have more than one solution.

(h)

Describe personal challenges concerning community well-being.

(i)

Investigate legislation (i.e., local, provincial, and national) that relates to particular community wellness issues.

(j)

Determine the intent of legislation (see indictor i) and question if the intention is realized in the local community.

(k)

Initiate, in a variety of ways, community awareness and opportunities to address wellness issues.

(l)

Evaluate, revise, and continue to implement a Personal Plan for Wellness to address self-selected community wellness challenges.

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Price : Free
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Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
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Media and Formats : CD/DVD Video
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Record posted/updated: November 22, 2021
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Price : Free
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Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
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Topic : Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
Price : Free
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Media and Formats : CD/DVD
Price : unavailable
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Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018