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Healthy Water, Healthy Habits, Healthy People Educators Guide
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Project WET Foundation, 2008
Clean water, proper sanitation and good hygiene form a solid foundation for a student's health education. This activities guide is designed to enable teachers to take an active role in making a real difference in the lives of children and their families. Its 40 pages are filled with engaging ways to impart an understanding about how common…
Descriptors: Health Education, Child Welfare, Water, Hygiene
Keep Kids Alcohol Free: Strategies for Action.
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Wendehack, Mary, Ed.; Green, Patricia, Ed. – 2001
This guide was produced by the Leadership To Keep Children Alcohol Free, a coalition of governors' spouses, federal agencies, and public and private organizations which aims to alert the nation of and mobilize action to prevent this critical public health problem. It is the only national effort that focuses on this age group. The guide is an…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol Education, Child Welfare
Social Policy, 'Deviant' Children, and the Public Health Apparatus in British Columbia between the Wars.
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Sutherland, Neil – Journal of Educational Thought, 1980
Examines the role of British Columbian public health and school health service workers in improving the health of children and educating parents in scientific child-rearing practices during the period 1920-1940. (SJL)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Child Rearing, Child Welfare, Children
Introduction and Overview: Prevention Services--From Optimistic Promise to Widespread, Effective Practice.
Weissberg, Roger P.; Kuster, Carol Bartels; Gullotta, Thomas P. – 1997
This opening chapter provides an overview of the book, "Healthy Children 2010: Establishing Preventive Services." The article describes the purpose of the work, which is to provide strategies to establish and successfully implement effective prevention services in key socializing settings that powerfully affect the growth an development…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Health, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs
Establishing Preventive Services. Healthy Children 2010. Issues in Children's and Families' Lives, Vol. 9. The John & Kelly Hartman Series.
Weissberg, Roger P., Ed.; Gullotta, Thomas P., Ed.; Hampton, Robert L., Ed.; Ryan, Bruce A., Ed.; Adams, Gerald R., Ed. – 1997
Young people are facing greater risks to their current and future health and social development, as shown by involvement of younger and younger children in risk-taking behaviors. This volume emphasizes developmentally and contextually appropriate prevention service delivery models and identifies state-of-the-art, empirically based strategies to…
Descriptors: Child Health, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Children
We the Children: Meeting the Promises of the World Summit for Children.
Annan, Kofi A. – 2001
This abridged version of the Secretary-General's report to the United Nations General Assembly's Special Session on Children details the achievements of the 1990 World Summit for Children. Nearly 150 countries provided national progress reports of their implementation of goals set forth in the Summit and the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Change Strategies, Child Health, Child Welfare
School Health Work, 1926-1928. Bulletin, 1929, No. 8
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Rogers, James Frederick – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
In the biennium 1926-1928 the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of modern physiology was celebrated. A tercentenary is an exceedingly small fraction of the time since man discovered the use of fire, invented clothes and houses, and began to huddle together under conditions which have rendered knowledge of hygiene imperative to his…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Health Education, Physical Education, Physiology