SLEEP SAVVY

LIVE HAPPY

Connecting the dots between learning, sleep, and mental health

A refreshingly practical and science-based way to help children become fully engaged in their life!

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We offer evidence-based healthy sleep resources and curriculum with one goal: to help kids learn to rest so they can be their best.

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who we help

SCHOOLS

The ZzzPower Sleep Program is BC’s first elementary school-focused initiative for school districts to champion the importance of healthy sleep and its direct link to learning and mental well-being.

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parents and carers

Our introductory book, The Quest for Rest: Polly & Pickles, is a two-part story and sleep guide. It empowers parents with proactive, science-based sleep solutions, and it teaches children how they can get ZzzPower from healthy sleep.

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Everyone who cares about kids

Our resources and programs are also available to doctors, communities, and government organizations.

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VISION

Make expert knowledge on healthy sleep easily accessible and understandable to families and communities through books, talks, programs, technology and shareable experiences.

why we do it

Every child and family deserves the benefits of healthy sleep for their emotional, physical, and mental wellness.

who we are

We’re a mom-and-doctor duo: Andrea J. Bell and Dr. Smita N. Naidoo. We're here to help change the conversation surrounding mental health and to give kids and the people who care about them tools, tips, and confidence along the way.

"Our aim is to fill a gap in health education, capturing those children who are struggling with mental health issues prior to reaching a clinical diagnosis. We want to provide every family with a book that is easy to access, inclusive, innovative, and validated by physicians.”

- Dr. Smita N. Naidoo

Testimonials

Vice Principal

"ZzzPower is a phenomenal program that's helped some of our learners at Fraser Wood Elementary understand the positive and powerful effect sleep has on their body. The program equipped them with tools they need to support a good night’s sleep. I'm so excited that ZzzPower is now available to all our learners in the Surrey School District!"

- Zahra Kabani, Vice Principal, Fraser Wood Elementary, Surrey

7-Year-Old

“Pickles is cute.”

- Ada

Auntie to Sariah

“Top Sleep Book! Invaluable resource. Engaging, inventive way to teach kids the importance of sleep. Plus provides a great resource for aunts like me who have a carload of nieces and nephews!”

- E.Thampy

Educator& Mom

"It’s a real epidemic. Polly’s problem rings with resounding truth.

Teaching in today’s climate, students in a class can be found lethargically laying about even during the most dynamic lesson. The juxtaposition of Polly and Pickles is subtle yet perfectly illustrates one’s struggle against the other’s lively bounce.“

- Jennifer Shaw-Jahour,

Coquitlam School District

Doctor & Mom

“With creativity and skill, these authors have created a "must-read" for kids and parents! Bedtime will no longer be "dread time.”

- S. Junaid, MD, FRCP(C)

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