Communities and Schools Promoting Health

A Gateway to information on comprehensive school health (CSH) and health promoting schools (HPS)
Providing links to research, reports, how-to manuals, planning & assessment tools, lesson plans and student webquests

     

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Canadian School Health Knowledge Network
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Overview of CSH

bullet Research on CSH
bullet Implementation/Systems Change
bullet How-To Manuals/Planning Tools
bullet Assessment/Evaluation Tools
 

Elements of CSH

bullet School Health Policies
bullet School Health Education
bullet School Health Services
bullet Social Support
bullet Physical Environment
 

Health Issues

bullet violence/crime/bullying
summary  -  resources - statement
bullet alcohol/drug/addiction
bullet tobacco
bullet physical activity
summary - statement checklist
bullet healthy eating
summary checklist
bullet HIV/STI/sexuality
bullet chronic disease/diabetes
bullet environmental health
bullet injury prevention
summary checklist
bullet mental health
bullet racism/discrimination
bullet personal/family/social    
development
summary  -  resources

CSH Strategies  

bullet youth engagement
summary  -  resources
bullet parent involvement
summary  -  resources
bullet interagency cooperation
bullet community-school cooperation
bullet staff/teacher development
bullet staff wellness

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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. 
 
bullet The funding of several research projects, development of a school health research agenda and a School Health Research Network.

bullet 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.
 


bullet 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.
 
bullet 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.
 
bullet 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.
 
bullet 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 planning/educational resources.  

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.

bullet 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.)
 
bullet 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 
 
bullet Participation in telephone and web-based roundtables that bring together local agencies, government officials, researchers and non-governmental organizations.
 
bullet Access to a list of over 2500 Canadian School Health contacts through the wiki-based web site

bullet Reduced rates of the annual School Health Conference

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bullet Canadian School Health Knowledge Network
 
bullet Canadian School Health Centre
 
bullet CSH NGO Network
 
bullet School Health Research Network
 
bullet School Health Conferences
 
bullet School Health Reports
 
bullet CSH Knowledge Network

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