Students Can Have Fun While They Learn to Manage Stress with the Stress Busters Program

Strong Minds Strong Kids, Psychology Canada (SMSKPC), a brand from The Psychology Foundation of Canada, has been nurturing resiliency in children and youth for almost 50 years. We develop and deliver psychology and evidence-based programs and resources that help children build a solid foundation of mental health before problems or issues begin.

Following the success of our Stress Busters pilot year, SMSKPC continues to deliver a unique and timely program for children in grades 4-6 (ages 8-12). Stress Busters was designed from our evidence-based Kids Have Stress Too! (KHST!) program with an added peer-to-peer support component to help kids put their learning into practice. This program has had a positive impact on children’s ability to identify and manage their stress. It provides children and their families with education and support to help them build stress management skills and to foster resilience. This program can be delivered once a week over 8-weeks as an after-school program or 1-hour per day over the span of 5 days as an in-school program.

"Stress Busters is a group with many caring, respectful, nice, and very helpful people who give you great, fun, and creative strategies to help manage your stress.”

–Participant, 12 years old

SMSKPC has received funding from The Quinn Family Future Foundation to be able to reach 750 kids with this program by the end of August 2023. If you are interested in partnering with SMSKPC to bring this program to your school board, please reach out to Pamela Sariyannis, Senior Coordinator of Programs and Community Partnerships