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Welcome
This gateway website provides
access to many resources in school health promotion as well as being home
for the Canadian
School Health Centre and the Canadian School Health NGO
Network. There is also reference to the
School
Health Research
Network as another part of the school health
promotion community in Canada. These organizations, as well as many others
initiatives are linked in an effort
to create the Canadian School Health
Knowledge Network.
This site contains vast links-based libraries on school-based health
promotion with connections to the worldwide
Comprehensive
School
Health/Health Promoting Schools movement. Extensive background information,
explanation of the essential elements of comprehensive school health (CSH)
approach are provided as well as tools such as lesson plans, webquests,
sample policies,
evaluation tools and practical advice.
This movement to promote health, academic achievement and social development
through coordinated school-based
and school-linked programs has been gaining
recognition around the world. In Canada, over 25 national organiza-
tions have
recently revised a
consensus statement on Comprehensive School
Health that was originally published
in 1990. For more on the background and
research on school health promotion, as well as links to SH sites around
the
world, see the section of
Applying CSH.
Extensive collections of links to research, planning, assessment and other
resource documents have been created.
See
Overview of CSH.
Explanations and listed resources relating to various elements of CSH,
including policies, education (instruction),
health services, social support
and physical environments are provided.
An extensive number of links to resources have been organized into sections
that apply a CSH approach to several
health issues including:
safety/crime/violence, drugs and alcohol, tobacco, health eating, physical
activity,
chronic disease/diabetes, environmental health, injury prevention,
HIV/sexuality, racism/discrimination.
See
Applying CSH.
Several strategies used within a comprehensive approach to school health
promotion, including youth engagement,
parental
involvement, interagency
cooperation are covered. See
Applying CSH.
A collections of lesson plans on several topics has been categorized. See
Lesson Plans.
There are also several
published
Student Webquests (project that combine
online and real life activities into active learning) as well as
links
provided to webquests on other
sites.
To stay up-to-date with school health news, research and new educational or
planning resources, sign up for the
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