Career and Life Management
Alberta CALM follows Personal, Resource, and Career and Life Choices. The 10-session bootcamp is a separate accelerated pathway.
Session 05 — Community supports map (fictional Cedar Bend)
Course: CALM (PED0770). Topic: CALM-PC-05. ~75 min.
Package: semester_ready\packages\CALM-PC-05\.
Fictional town data only. Do not require real family addresses, real doctors’ names, or a household genogram.
Official outcomes / topics
- CALM-P14: evaluate resources and support systems for each dimension of health for self and others; consumer/citizenship actions — public services.
- CALM-P9 (light): communication for accessing help — how to ask, using a script, not a conflict with family.
- Canon: identify services; help-seeking; community resource map. Localization to Grande Prairie/Fairview is delivery-layer later; this rapid pack uses Cedar Bend so no student is forced to out themselves as living in a small town.
Learning targets
- Map at least five Cedar Bend public supports to wellness dimensions.
- Write one access step (hours, phone, or walk-in rule) from the handout — not from memory of a relative.
- Optional private: add one real public number (211 or local library) in the teacher-private layer.
Prerequisites
Sessions 03–04 ladder.
Diagnostic / retrieval
“Name a support that is not a family member.” If students only say “mom,” teacher: family can be a support privately; today’s map is public.
Instruction
Cedar Bend, Alberta (invented, pop. ~8,400). Handout (teaching; not a real municipal directory):
| Service | Dimension hook | Access (teaching) |
|---|---|---|
| Cedar Bend Public Library | Intellectual / social | 10:00–20:00 weekdays; free Wi-Fi |
| Youth Hub (rec centre room) | Social / meaning | Drop-in 15:30–18:30 school days |
| 211 Alberta | Navigation | Phone 211 (re-verify) |
| AHS Mental Health Help Line | Emotional | 1-877-303-2642 (re-verify) |
| Kids Help Phone | Emotional | 1-800-668-6868 / text CONNECT to 686868 |
| Cedar Bend Food Bank | Physical / determinant | Thu 13:00–16:00; no ID theatre in class — do not role-play humiliation |
| Credit union (later RC) | Resource | Mention only: exists on Main St. — no account opening |
| RCMP non-emergency | Safety | Listed on handout; 911 for emergency |
Students must not be sent to photograph a real food bank as homework.
How to ask (P9): script: “I need information about X. What are your hours?” Practice on the library, not “call your dad.”
Timed visuals
| id | trigger | duration | alt | teacher cue | tutor cue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CALM-VIS-05-MAP | After retrieval | 80 s | Simple street map, 6 pins | “Pins are public” | Don’t ask home address |
| CALM-VIS-05-211 | Minute 25 | 35 s | 211 logo-style text | “Navigation, not therapy” | Don’t scrape live wait times |
| CALM-VIS-05-SCRIPT | Minute 40 | 40 s | Speech bubble script | Students may read to a wall | No recording classmates |
Modelling / worked examples
Jordan needs a quiet study place after the 21:00 grocery close. Library closes 20:00 — mismatch. Repair: Youth Hub until 18:30 doesn’t help either. Determinant: evening worker. Options: Sunday library hours if the handout lists 12:00–16:00 Sunday (add that line: Sunday 12:00–16:00). Then Jordan can study Sunday, not job nights.
Food bank pin maps to physical and to a determinant (income). Students write “hours from handout” not “my family uses this.”
Guided practice + answers
Pairs place five pins on a blank map using only the table. Each pin: service, dimension, one access fact.
Answer check: five public services; no home addresses; 211 counted as province-wide not a Cedar Bend building.
Independent practice
- FOUNDATION: Three pins with names only.
- CORE: Five pins + dimension + hours/phone from handout.
- PROFICIENT: One gap analysis (evening student vs library hours) + a workaround.
- ADVANCED: Write a 6-line “how to use 211” without disclosing a personal crisis (use Jordan: “looking for youth rec options”).
Project connection
Kiosk communications role: a poster may list 211 and “ask staff for the public hours sheet.” It may not list a student’s home.
Checks for understanding
“Can a pin be your cousin?” Not on the shared map. “Is 211 a Cedar Bend office?” It’s a navigation line; still allowed as a pin.
Misconceptions
| Wrong | Repair |
|---|---|
| “Supports = family only.” | P14 includes community systems. |
| “We have to volunteer at the real food bank this week.” | Not required; fictional map. |
| “Putting a counsellor’s personal cell in the gallery is fine.” | Public lines only. |
| “AI can look up my town and my house.” | Stay on Cedar Bend handout. |
AI Tutor prompts and safeguarding boundaries
Allowed: “Match Cedar Bend services to dimensions using this table.”
Forbidden: “Find my address”; “call this number for me”; crisis therapy. Crisis → human rungs from session 04.
Human-tutor handoff
Student who actually uses a food bank: private layer, no gallery. Shame is a teacher problem to prevent, not a discussion prompt.
Exit ticket
Two supports + the dimension each serves + one access fact.
Sample: Library — intellectual — closes 20:00; 211 — navigation — dial 211.
Homework
Do not interview family about income or who they “really” call. Optional private: write one real public number (library/211) for your actual community in the envelope.
Teacher guidance
If you later localize to Grande Prairie/Fairview, replace the handout at the delivery layer; do not force students to confirm where they live. Re-verify 211 and help lines.
Materials
Cedar Bend map; table; script card; stickers/pins.
Preparation
Print Sunday library hours on the table so the evening-worker gap is solvable. Remove any real student-address activity from old outreach packs.
Timing
| Min | Move |
|---|---|
| 0–8 | Retrieval: non-family support |
| 8–22 | Cedar Bend table + public vs private |
| 22–38 | Model library hours vs 21:00 job |
| 38–58 | Map build |
| 58–68 | Gap analysis / independent |
| 68–75 | Exit; dated reflection 1 prompt (Section E) |
Online alternative
Shared map image, pins as comments with service names only. No location sharing from devices.
Low-technology alternative
Paper map. No Google Earth of real homes.
Visual task (AFTER_RETRIEVAL): Trace one decision path and state a consequence.
CALM session 05 decision tree 041
Visual task (AFTER_PRACTICE): Inspect the visual, notice labels, and answer the lesson prompt.
CALM session 05 wellness model 087
Visual task (BEFORE_WORKED_EXAMPLE): Inspect the visual, notice labels, and answer the lesson prompt.
CALM session 05 risk matrix 133