Ontario is first province to make mental health lessons mandatory in Grade 10

In the years that followed, she advocated for better mental health education for students.

“The day before he died, he took a university campus tour. He worked a few hours at his part-time job, and he got together with friends. The night before he went to a school dance,” she added. “Anyone seeing him would have observed a normal healthy teenager.” After being elected last June, she put forward a motion stressing the importance of mental health education, and on Monday noted the province is the first to require it.

Students already learn about mental health in many grades as part of the updated health curriculum. Now, the government will be providing consistent, required learning materials on mental health in Grades 7 and 8, including videos and activities about how to handle and recognize stress. But NDP education critic Chandra Pasma said the government needs to boost mental health staff in schools.

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