Education and Resources
Explore resources, guides, certificate programs, courses and training opportunities designed to build a campus community where everyone can thrive. This includes practical resources and programs for students, staff and faculty that foster mental health and well-being, as well as initiatives to strengthen resilience, advance EDIA, and drive climate action.
Sustainable Events Badge
The Sustainable Events Badge provides a simple tool to help students, faculty and staff take action to make our events more inclusive, environmentally conscious and socially responsible. Learn more about how to obtain a Sustainable Events Badge at UCalgary.
Workshops hosted by the Office of Institutional Commitments
We offer workshops on the following topics:
- Institutional Commitments
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
- Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Sustainability
Youth Can Sustain Certificate Program
Youth Can Sustain (formerly Youth Leadership Certificate for the SDGs) is an online program that supports post-secondary students across Canada to develop the expertise and skills to act on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Mobilizing Alberta: Preparing Albertans for Climate Change
This e-course, offered in English and French, provides locally relevant, evidence-based information on climate change impacts and solutions. Each module takes a closer look at policies driving climate action, local projects and initiatives, and actions individuals can take in day-to-day life.
Naloxone Training
Naloxone is the antidote to opioid poisoning. It’s an injectable medication that reverses the effects for 30-60 minutes, allowing the person to breathe normally and regain consciousness while help is on the way. UCalgary offers functional training specific to recognizing opioid poisoning and the administration of Naloxone medication.
Reach Out: Suicide Awareness and Prevention
Reach Out aims to increase awareness, provide educational opportunities and encourage open dialogue about the topic of suicide. Reach Out gives the UCalgary campus community the tools to support students in distress through robust, accessible, evidence-based suicide intervention training programs.
Recovery Ally Training
Recovery Ally Training is a two-hour interactive session that builds practical skills in recognizing stigma, using recovery-affirming language, responding to disclosure, understanding boundaries and referral pathways, and creating more inclusive, recovery-friendly campus spaces across all recovery pathways.
Upstanders (Student Harm-Reduction Training)
Upstanders is a student harm-reduction training and multi-workshop program designed to help students increase their confidence in their ability to help others on and off campus. The program consists of 20 hours of in-person training and online reflective activities.
The Working Mind
The Working Mind is targeted to general workplace audiences. The workshop aims to increase awareness of mental health, reduce the stigma of mental illnesses, and offer resources to maintain positive mental health and increase resiliency. Equally important goals within the program are to create a supportive environment, strengthen organizational culture and contribute to a healthy workplace.