Engaging Educational Resources
Preferred learners
- Anywhere
- Academic experience
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Project scope
- What is the main goal for this project?
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Iris the Dragon is seeking students from schools of education, early childhood development/psychology or design to assist with the creation of online educational tools that can build its free resource library that helps to provide families, communities and caregivers with tools that facilitate discussion around mental health and wellness. Examples include colouring pages, conversation starters, and maybe even more innovative than that!
Iris the Dragon is open to discussing the type of educational tools to be developed but Iris the Dragon would like to use its existing characters from its book series.
- What is the main goal for this project?
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Iris the Dragon is seeking students from schools of education, early childhood development/psychology or design to assist with the creation of online educational tools that can build its free resource library that helps to provide families, communities and caregivers with tools that facilitate discussion around mental health and wellness. Examples include colouring pages, conversation starters, and maybe even more innovative than that!
Iris the Dragon is open to discussing the type of educational tools to be developed but Iris the Dragon would like to use its existing characters from its book series.
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
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No deliverables exist for this project.
About the company
- https://www.iristhedragon.org
- 0 - 1 employees
- Education, Arts, Hospital, health, wellness & medical, Individual & family services, Media & production
Iris the Dragon is a solutions-oriented, social enterprise, employing proven and effective approaches and delivery formats to address the challenge of social inclusion of those with mental health disabilities in our society. Iris the Dragon has achieved this, nationally in Canada and globally, by correcting misunderstanding and misinformation about mental illness through the vehicle of storytelling and known educational approaches that influence attitude change.
Iris the Dragon specializes in creating innovative ways to deliver key psycho educational messages about mental illness for both the caregiver and the individual with the disorder. The Iris the Dragon Charity was one of the first to use the creative medium of storytelling to address mental illness in Canada and has been recognized for its innovation through awards such as The Royal Ottawa’s Inspirational Award for Leader in Mental Health.