2026 Campaign: Outdoor Learning Settings
Welcome Healthy Environments for Learning Day (HELD) 2026: Outdoor Learning Settings. Thursday April 23, 2026 CPCHE and 50+ signatory organizations are calling for leadership and action to ensure that all children in Canada have access to healthy, sustainable and climate-resilient outdoor learning and play environments. Read the Call for Action. Children thrive outdoors. There is […]
Letter to Prime Minister re: Climate Resilience in Schools and Child Care Settings
Letter sent to The Right Honourable Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada HELD 2025 Campaign: Extreme Heat in Schools and Child Care Environments Response
Call for Action Dissemination Letter
Français Subject: Call for Action to Protect Children from Extreme Heat in Schools and Child Care Settings Letter sent to: Prime Minister and Members of Federal Cabinet and Premiers and Members of Provincial/Territorial Cabinets: HELD 2025 Campaign: Extreme Heat in Schools and Child Care Environments Response
2025 HELD Media Release
As Canadians face increasingly intense and frequent heat waves, health, education and legal experts are sounding the alarm on a growing crisis: extreme heat in schools and child care settings due to the escalating effects of climate change.
2025 Campaign: Additional Resources
2025 Campaign: Additional Resources Learn more about the actions to protect children’s health during extreme heat: Keep children cool! Protecting children from extreme heat Comprehensive strategy to address extreme heat in schools Learn more about outdoor settings, including shade coverage, tree canopy, urban heat islands and thermally comfortable playgrounds: Fundamentals for Thermal Comfort and […]