Join us for an insightful workshop designed specifically for farmers, to provide and strengthen coping strategies when dealing with everyday challenges on the farm. This session provides practical tools to manage stress, build resilience, and support your well-being and that of your family, employees, and community.   

In this 2 hour session you will learn:   

• The current situation in Alberta   

• The resources and supports available now   

• Resiliency and coping strategies that work  

• How to offer peer support and referrals  

Join Us: Together, we can make a difference in the mental health of our farming community.   

This agriculture-specific suicide awareness and prevention workshop is a 2 hour webinar that will provide participants with a general understanding of suicide risk in the community and workplace. This workshop provides four (4) steps for on-the-farm/on-the-job suicide prevention. Registration now open.

Join the Porch Light Society and AgKnow for a cowboy black tie dinner, dance, and action raising awareness for mental wellness in rural communities. Tickets are available now.

Join the Alberta Family Wellness Initiative and AgKnow to learn about the Brain Story and Resilience Scale Framework. Resilience can be defined as the ability to respond positively in the face of adversity. The Resilience Scale metaphor depicts how our positive and negative experiences interact to influence lifelong health outcomes. Learn how the Resilience Scale Framework can be applied to improve the well-being of individuals, families, and communities.

Get an introduction to the Palix Foundation and the Brain Story Certification Course Learn about the Resilience Scale and what to expect from the full Resilience Scale Masterclass

This agriculture-specific suicide awareness and prevention workshop is a 2 hour webinar that will provide participants with a general understanding of suicide risk in the community and workplace. This workshop provides four (4) steps for on-the-farm/on-the-job suicide prevention. Registration coming soon.

This agriculture-specific suicide awareness and prevention workshop is a 90-minute webinar that will provide participants with a general understanding of suicide risk in the community and workplace. This workshop provides four (4) steps for on-the-farm/on-the-job suicide prevention. Click here for more information and to register.

AgKnow is pleased to present Mona Cooley of Cool Family Solutions and their program for helping families with Mental Health and Substance Abuse related disorders.

Discover what rural mental health services are available, barriers farmers face, and which strategies help encourage farmers to seek support.

Join us to learn what farmers shared about the challenges of farming in Alberta.

AgKnow has teamed up with Tara Adams at Abridge Consulting to create unique suicide awareness and prevention trainings designed for peer to peer support in the farming and agriculture industry.

Join AgKnow’s own Lead Researcher, Rebecca Purc-Stephenson, Ph.D., and Maris Champagne from AgSafe Alberta for Battle River Research Group and Camrose County’s Workshop “Farm Safety & Mental Health “.

A free lunch is sponsored by Camrose County. Gain invaluable knowledge and practical strategies to protect both yourself and your farm.

Join us and Dr. Michelle Pavloff Network and Research Chair of Rural Health at Saskatchewan Polytechnic and founder and lead researcher for the SaskAgMatters Network, for a one hour webinar to explore her research on the unique needs and culture of farmers as they pertain to health care provision.

At AgKnow, we are working to increase the resiliency of farming communities by destigmatizing mental health and reducing barriers to services. It is our goal to create better connections between farmers their families and the health care and mental health professionals that support them.

This webinar would be most useful to health care and mental health professionals working with rural farm clients in western Canada.

This training is to help you understand what many farmers are dealing with in the province right now and that is livestock depopulation. The relationship between farmers and their livestock is not simple nor static.

AgKnow has partnered with AgSafe Alberta to host an In the Know workshop, a virtual mental health literacy course. In the Know is designed to help you learn about mental health and illness, promote well-being in your life, how to recognize when someone is struggling, and how to respond.

This training is to help you understand what many farmers are dealing with in the province right now and that is livestock depopulation. The relationship between farmers and their livestock is not simple nor static.

This is a virtual webinar training that will give you an overview of farm culture. We'll take a look at the current state of farm mental health and provide you with information regarding the latest Canadian research on farm mental health.