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Overview of CSH
Elements of CSH
Health Issues
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Canada has been making rapid
progress in comprehensive school health programs. There are numerous
initiatives being launched or expanded across the country. The Canadian
School Health Knowledge Network has been formed to help Canadian
practitioners, researchers and policy-makers become better informed about these
initiatives and events. The CSH Knowledge Network has two sets of
activities; those that have been sponsored and others that are available to
paying members or contributing members. only
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Sponsored Activities (Free to All)
The Canadian Association for School Health has successfully secured funding
for a number of activities over the years which have benefited knowledge
development and exchange in Canadian school health.
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The
funding of several research projects, development of a school health
research agenda and a
School Health Research Network.
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The facilitation
of a network of over 50 national non-governmental organizations (Canadian School
Health NGO Network) that exchanges information in meetings,
coordinates their advocacy efforts and meets periodically with federal
officials. For example, this NGO network published a
Canadian Consensus Statement on Comprehensive School
Health that has guided CSH development in Canada for 20 years.
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The creation of a comprehensive wiki-based
web site (www.canadianschoolhealth.ca)
that coordinates a SH report (Knowledge
Matters), several
Communites of Practice, a
Canadian SH News blog, a
Twitter account feeding CSH news and more.
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Between 2006 and 2010
a national teacher’s magazine was published jointly by the Canadian
Association for School Health
Canadian Teachers’ Federation
and a regular insert was placed in the journal of the
Canadian Public Health
Association. This
publication is evolving into a multi-media publication that will include
peer reviewed articles, a magazine and collections of resources offered by
Canadian, Australian and American school health associations. See
here for the latest and archived issues.
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Annual
school health conferences are organized
each Spring, often in cooperation with other organizations. These
conferences often include one-day symposia offered by the Communities of
Practice.
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The development of a Centre on School Health (recognized by WHO as part of
an international Collaborating Centre) that has converted a library of
over 7000 documents into an international School Health Encyclopedia and
Knowledge Exchange Program. The
Encyclopedia/KE program currently has 48
summaries prepared by over 20 experts from around the world as well as
over 40 different bibliographies of research, reports and
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Additional
Services for Paying or Contributing Members
Organizations that pay an annual fee of $300.00 or individuals who pay
($200.00/year) as well as individuals who contribute their time by
presenting at webinars and conferences and receive the following benefits.
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Free access to over 30 webinars (if an organization is a member then they
may have up to15 people members participate. Single and contributing
members may have only 1 person (themselves) participate.
(Non-members pay $25.00 per webinar.)
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For a limited
time (prior to March 31, 2010) organizational members who join or renew
their membership will have access to a comprehensive blog/networking web
site (School
Health Insider) that tracks over 50 research journals, over 10
research review web sites, over 40 media outlets and a variety of
networking and regular web sites to create
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Participation in telephone and web-based roundtables that bring together
local agencies, government officials, researchers and non-governmental
organizations.
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Access to a list of over 2500 Canadian School Health contacts
through the wiki-based web site
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Reduced rates of the annual School Health Conference
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Join the CSH Knowledge Network
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