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COURSES

Training Built for
Real-World Challenges.

Explore 29 practical courses designed for first responders, workplaces, families, oil sands and industrial teams, schools, communities, and Indigenous partners.

Showing 29 of 29 courses
01
Indigenous Partners foundation 2 hrs

Occupational Stress Injury 101

Recognizing occupational stress injury in yourself and your crew, how it develops along acute and cumulative pathways, and the warning signs most often missed.

02
First Responders awareness 1.5 hrs

Confidential Help-Seeking

How to get support without it hitting your file, addressing the real fear of professional consequences directly and honestly.

03
First Responders awareness 2-3 hrs On-call

Post-Critical-Incident Group Debrief

A structured seven-phase ICISF debrief delivered by certified facilitators within days of a qualifying traumatic incident.

04
First Responders certification 5-day program

Peer Supporter Certification

RES-Q's flagship train-the-trainer program, certifying an organization's own people to deliver support internally.

05
First Responders foundation 4 hrs

Leadership: Recognizing the Signs in Your Team

A supervisor's course treating team wellbeing recognition as a core leadership competency, not a soft skill.

06
Employers & Workplaces awareness 1-2 hrs

Mental Health Awareness Lunch-and-Learn

RES-Q's entry-level workplace session, stress and trauma literacy, stigma, and the 8 R's framework.

07
Employers & Workplaces foundation 3-4 hrs

Building a Stigma-Free Workplace

Moving a team from awareness to a concrete, team-specific action plan for reducing stigma.

08
Employers & Workplaces foundation 3-4 hrs

Manager’s Guide to Supporting a Struggling Employee

Practical skills for frontline managers: recognizing changes, opening a conversation, and knowing your limits.

09
Employers & Workplaces foundation 3 hrs

Return-to-Work After Mental Health Leave

Building graduated, collaborative return-to-work plans that reduce the risk of relapse.

10
Employers & Workplaces awareness 2 hrs

Substance Use in the Workplace

Plain-language education connecting substance use to stress and trauma, separate from any disciplinary process.

11
Families foundation 2.5 hrs

Supporting a Loved One in Recovery

Practical tools for understanding recovery as a non-linear process,and supporting without enabling.

12
Families awareness 1.5 hrs

What to Say (and Not Say) When Someone Discloses

Specific, practiced language for the moment a loved one discloses a struggle.

13
Families foundation 2 hrs

Grief & the ‘Waiting Room’

Naming the specific, often unacknowledged grief of loving someone in treatment.

14
Families foundation 2.5 hrs

Family Resilience After a First-Responder Household Crisis

Built for first-responder households: shift work, secondary traumatic stress, and household routines that help.

15
Oil Sand & Industrial awareness 1.5–2 hrs

Isolation & Camp Life: Staying Mentally Strong on Site

Names camp-life isolation directly and gives workers a confidential path to RES-Q that doesn't put their job at risk.

16
Oil Sand & Industrial foundation 2-3 hrs

Bridging the Distance: Communication Strategies for Rotational Families

Addresses the #1 stressor in Alberta oil sands mental health research: time away from family.

17
Oil Sand & Industrial foundation 2 hrs

Doubt, Guilt and Missing Out: The Hidden Emotional Cost of Site Work

A direct, unflinching workshop on the doubt that surfaces during long rotations.

18
Oil Sand & Industrial foundation 2 hrs

Reintegration: Coming Home Between Rotations

The jarring adjustment of returning home, renegotiating roles on a compressed timeline.

19
School & Youth awareness 45–60 min

Stress & Coping 101

Age-adapted for junior high and high school students, co-facilitated with school counsellors.

20
School & Youth awareness 45 min

Where to Turn: A Student’s Guide to Getting Help

Demystifies exactly how students can access help at their own school.

21
School & Youth awareness 1 hr

Substance Use Awareness for Teens

Honest, non-judgmental, evidence-based content delivered without scare tactics.

22
School & Youth awareness 45 min / drop-in

Exam-Period Resilience

Built for Keyano College orientation week and exam-period drop-in delivery.

23
School & Youth foundation 3-4 hrs

Educator/Staff Training: Recognizing Struggling Students

Professional development built around each school's own referral protocol.

24
Community awareness 1.5 hrs

The 8 R’s: An Introduction to the RES-Q Framework

RES-Q's foundational public workshop introducing the eight R's as a shared language for recovery and growth.

25
Community awareness 1.5 hrs

Understanding Trauma: A Plain-Language Primer

Accurate, accessible education on trauma and how to respond supportively to someone who's experienced it.

26
Community awareness 1.5 hrs

Addiction & Recovery: Myths, Facts, and How to Help

Evidence-informed public education reframing addiction as a health issue.

27
Community awareness 2 hrs

Suicide Awareness & How to Ask the Direct Question

A safeTALK-informed session teaching the single most protective skill in suicide prevention.

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Indigenous Partners co-designed Full Day

Land-Based Healing & Trauma-Informed Practice

A co-facilitated program led by the partner community's own Elders and Knowledge Keepers.

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Indigenous Partners co-designed Community-determined

Intergenerational Trauma Awareness

A community-led program where RES-Q's role is explicitly secondary and supportive.

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