Websites
Websites from Grade 12 Information Sessions
www.novascotiacareeroptions.ca
This site includes skill inventories, career quizzes, information on the job market and job profiles.
See Counselling Centre for username and password
This is an interactive site for students that includes, skill and interest inventories, job profiles, post-secondary school information and a resumé builder. Students can create an account and sign in to save their resumés and quiz results. Canadian information!
Search for colleges and universities world-wide, information on tuition and size of school is provided as well as contact information.
This is an american site for searching colleges. This is also the place to register for SAT’s.
Students can register and login to complete a profile. The site will match them with potential scholarship opportunities.
Canadian site for searching school profiles, career information, trades programs and more. You can get a login and password and match with possible scholarships from their databank.
This is a Government of Canada web page. This includes information and links to information on student loans, RESP’s, career planning tools and a school finder.
Other career related sites:
This site has information on environmental careers which includes internships, career profiles, scholarships and self-assessment tools.
Their general website includes information on careers and how to join.
This program is designed to educate and inform parents around career options so they can
better support and guide their sons' and daughters' education and career choices. Parents
can sign up for workshops on this site and when enough interest is generated, sessions
will be held either here at Park View or at NSCC.
www.brightcareerfutures.com
This site links students, parents and educators with up to date information on in-demand
careers.
Information on military careers.
This site provides information for students and parents on apprenticeship and the skilled trades.
Health related sites:
This site has information for adults, teens, teachers and parents.
The Youth Project is an organization that provides support to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered youth.
Addictions Sites:
http://knowledgex.camh.net/podcasts/tnt/Pages/default.aspx
Podcasts on addictions/mental health issues and youth.
This is an interactive site designed by youth where students can choose to be one of four teenagers in a story. In this story, they are given choices and decisions to make which leads them to the next part of the story.
This website is for a specific campaign around alcohol use and gambling and the “yellow flag” that serves as warning signs for when drinking and gambling become issues that need to be addressed in one’s life.
http://changingtheculture.ns.ca
Directly from the website:
“We’re looking at way to get people talking and thinking about the way we’re drinking. We’re looking at a new Nova Scotia where a change in culture will mean a place where you feel comfortable and confident saying no to one more and a time when a drink is a drink and company is the pleasure.”
You can view the “When” video here.
Mental Health Awareness:
www.cmha.ca/highschool
This is a resource for students, teachers and parents on mental
health. CMHA stand for the Canadian Mental Health Association
This is an award winning site for youth by youth. This is a place where you can get info, resources and the tools to help you manage stress, crisis and mental health problems. Share what you live and what you know with your friends.
This is IWK’s site providing information on mental health issues and adolescents. Includes a blog by Stan Kutcher, slide shows and information sheets.
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
www.heretohelp.bc.ca
This site has a ton of information on mental health disorders. There
are fact sheets, screening self-tests, tool kits and personal stories
of others who have lived with different issues involving mental health.
Correspondence Studies
Register here for a correspondence course. This site also lists costs, text book requirements and a “Frequently asked questions” option.
Atlantic Universities
Saint Mary’s University (
St. Stephen’s University (
Université de Moncton (Moncton, NB)
Université Sainte-Anne (Pointe-de-l’Eglise, NS)
Atlantic Community Colleges:
College of the
Centre for Arts and Technology (
Operating
www.operatingengineers721.ns.ca/main.aspx
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