About Us
Vision
To build capacity for wellbeing in education through scholarship, knowledge translation, and evidence-based services that prioritize addressing critical knowledge and access gaps, building skills needed for sustained high-impact change, and improving wellbeing and mental health of systems, organizations, individuals, and communities.
Mission
- Advance the scholarship on wellbeing and mental health in education by fostering collaboration and innovation to generate new enhance understandings and approaches to improving wellbeing in education.
- Engage in high-impact knowledge translation via professional learning programming, community outreach, and resource development that are contextually responsive, timely, practical, and accessible to educators, families, and K-20 students.
- Support research-based clinical service access and preparation of the next generation of educators and mental health providers by expanding the scope and accessibility of research-based prevention, intervention, and evaluation services offered by the Centre’s clinic.
Support Our Work
Giving to the Centre for Wellbeing can support
- Grants for research to advance wellbeing, mental health, and resilience in schools
- Professional learning opportunities for current and future educators and mental health providers
- Community outreach for families and other community members to provide evidence-based information, strategies, and tools to support children and youth wellbeing, mental health, and resilience
- Clinical Services, professional learning, and outreach to educators and community members rural, remote, and other underserved Alberta communities
Funding to support current and future UCalgary students in becoming wellbeing champions through high quality research, clinical, and outreach experiences in partnership with our staff and members
Contact
Angie Crowley
Business Director, Centre for Wellbeing in Education, Werklund School of Education
Phone: 403-220-5816
Email: angela.crowley@ucalgary.ca