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Thrive aims to advance understanding, practice, and policy in school-based mental health and educator wellbeing across Canada. The journal serves as a bridge between research, implementation science, and classroom practice — empowering teachers, counsellors, administrators, and researchers to create emotionally safe, inclusive, and resilient learning environments.

📢 Call for Submissions: This open-access journal publishes empirical research, program evaluations, practitioner case studies and briefs, implementation reports, policy analyses, resource reviews, and special issues.

Areas of focus include:

• Whole-school approaches to student and staff mental health

• Teacher wellbeing, burnout prevention, and resilience

• School-based mental health program implementation and evaluation

• Culturally responsive and trauma-informed practices

• Integration of mental health literacy into curriculum and pedagogy

• Equity, inclusion, and accessibility in mental health support

• Indigenous and community-led mental health frameworks

• Family and community partnerships for wellbeing

• Policy, leadership, and system-level innovations in school mental health

• Digital wellbeing and technology use in classrooms

Editorial Commitments

• Promote cross-sector collaboration among educators, mental health professionals, and researchers.

• Ensure equitable representation of diverse voices and cultural contexts in Canada.

• Provide structured abstracts and practitioner summaries for classroom and district use.

• Encourage contributions from early-career researchers and practicing educators.

Impact Goals

• Strengthen evidence-informed mental health practices in Canadian K–12 schools.

• Elevate teacher and staff wellbeing as a key component of student success.

• Support knowledge mobilization between researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.

• Establish a unified national venue for Canadian school mental health scholarship.

📬 Stay Connected: Sign up for updates, new issues, and calls for papers as we continue building a resource hub for teachers, school counsellors, administrators, psychologists, mental health professionals working in K–12 education, researchers, policymakers, and organizations supporting youth mental health in educational settings.