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Worldwide Experience in School Health

HHD has played a major role in establishing school health programs since 1977. This brochure highlights HHD's early efforts in the U.S.

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Why Invest in Violence Prevention?

Publication date:

2011

Author(s):

Violence Prevention Alliance and Education Development Center

This document has been prepared by the Funders’ Connect project group of the Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA).

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Intimate partner and sexual violence prevention course

Project Name:

WHO Collaborating Center to Promote Health Through Schools and Communities

Funder:

World Health Organization

This course presents an evidence-based public health and life-course approach to preventing intimate partner and sexual violence against women.

Healthy Action: An Activity Book for Teachers and Learners

Publication date:

2011

Author(s):

Education International (EI), Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), and the World Health Organization (WHO)

This toolkit is based on the premise that healthy students and teachers live better.

The activities herein are designed to help learners and teachers develop healthy

For more information or to obtain:

Download a copy of the Healthy Action: An Activity Book for Teachers and Learners (PDF, 11.91 MB).

Child maltreatment prevention course

Project Name:

WHO Collaborating Center to Promote Health Through Schools and Communities

Funder:

World Health Organization

This short course describes the public health approach to child maltreatment.

For more information:

This course can be accessed on the WHO website at www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/capacitybuilding/courses/child_maltreatment/en/index.html.

Trauma care system planning and management

Project Name:

WHO Collaborating Center to Promote Health Through Schools and Communities

Funder:

World Health Organization

This course provides an overview of injury as a public health problem, the different elements of a trauma care system, as well as strategies for improving trauma care services and systems.

For more information:

This course can be accessed on the WHO website at www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/capacitybuilding/courses/trauma_care/en/index.html.

Trauma care quality improvement

Project Name:

WHO Collaborating Center to Promote Health Through Schools and Communities

Funder:

World Health Organization

This course seeks to promote better understanding of quality improvement in trauma care and to provide training on straightforward and practical techniques, such as preventable death reviews.

For more information:

This course can be accessed on the WHO website at www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/capacitybuilding/courses/trauma_quality/en/index.html.

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The Voice of Children Toolkit, School Edition

Publication date:

2010

Author(s):

Vince Whitman, C., Kessel Schneider, S., Awartani, M., Guilfoy, V., O'Toole, L., & Gordon, J.

The Voice of Children Toolkit: Methods and strategies to determine how young people think school affects their well-being and engage them with adults in making positive changes is the School Ed

For more information or to obtain:

Download a copy of The Voice of Children Toolkit (PDF, 2.01 MB).

Leadership in the HIV and AIDS Response: A Toolkit for Teachers’ Unions to Promote Health and Improve Education

Publication date:

2009

Author(s):

Pulizzi, S., and Rosenblum, L.

Funder:

Education International

This toolkit has been developed through the EFAIDS Programme to help teachers around the world prevent new HIV infection, challenge stigma, advocate for support for those infected and affected by H

For more information or to obtain:

Download a copy of Leadership in the HIV and AIDS Response: A Toolkit for Teachers’ Unions to Promote Health and Improve Education. (PDF)

World Conference on Mental Health

July 19, 2010

Leading experts will address the inequalities that affect the mental health of millions of people globally on Nov.

A person’s mental health can have a profound effect on their physical health and behavior, school success, workplace productivity, and family and community stability.

For more information contact Anne O’Neill at aoneill@edc.org