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Know Your Body (Grades K-6)
KYB's is a skills-based comprehensive school health curriculum with five major components, that allows teachers to integrate health into other areas easily. The focus is on life skills, including, but not limited to, communication skills, self-esteem building skills, and decision making skills. The 10 content areas of a comprehensive school health education program are covered as well. KYB is one of the few comprehensive curriculum with extensive evaluation research, showing impact on health behaviors of its target population/grade level.
Growing Healthy (Grades K-6)
Growing Healthy is a skills-based comprehensive school health curriculum that allows teachers to integrate health into other areas easily. The 10 content areas of a comprehensive school health education program are covered extensively with life skills built in. Growing Healthy is one of the few comprehensive curriculum with extensive evaluation research, showing impact on health behaviors of its target population/grade level.
Teenage Health Teaching Modules (Grades 7-12)
THTM is an evaluated comprehensive school health curriculum for grades 7-12. "It provides adolescents with the knowledge, skills and understanding necessary to act in ways that enhance their immediate and long term-health." THTM contains modules which focus on goal setting, health advocacy, decision making, self-assessment, risk assessment, communication skills, and healthy self-management. Content includes personal health, tobacco, alcohol and other drug use prevention, injury and violence prevention, mental and emotional health, consumer health, healthy relationships, community and environmental health, nutrition, and disease prevention and control. The "Cruise for School Health" will cover grades 9-10 as well as Violence Prevention and Drug Abuse Prevention for Middle and Junior High School. THTM is one of the few comprehensive curriculum with extensive evaluation research, showing impact on health behaviors of its target population/grade level.
Michigan Model (Grades K-8)
The Michigan Model covers the areas of risk and hazards of the use of alcohol, tobacco and other substances, disease prevention, personal health practices, nutrition, physical growth and development, family health, consumer health, community health, first aid and safety, and emotional and mental health. The Michigan Model also includes a strong family involvement component. Skills include problem solving, decision making, communication skills and assessment skills.
PRECEDE/PROCEED
This workshop is designed to prepare school and community workers as better planners and evaluators. Precede/Proceed includes the skills for planning: diagnosing social issues, health issues, behavioral and non-behavioral factors, predisposing factors, enabling factors, reinforcing factors, as well as administrative issues such as policies, resource management and budgeting. Needs assessment strategies will be covered. A model with seven distinct interrelated phases will be covered. The training will also include evaluation: formative (process, input/output etc.) and summative (impact and outcome) in relation to each of the phases and objectives. "Health Promotion Planning. An Educational and Environmental Approach," (Mayfield Publishing) by Drs. Lawrence W. Green and Marshall W. Krueter, will be include with your materials.
School-based Staff Wellness/Worksite Health
Worksite health programs will be covered in this workshop. The training will provide skills in developing and implementing worksite health programs for teachers and school staff. Barriers, enablers and other issues specific to school settings, will be covered. Components of an effective wellness program will be covered. The focus of the workshop will include developing and expertise in the selection and implementation of health risk appraisals, and use of data collected for "wellness" and health promotion program development and/or selection. An actual school system case study will be reviewed.
Be Proud! Be Responsible!
While the early research show significant impact on sexuality-related behaviors of African American males, "Be Proud!.." is an effective HIV/AIDS curriculum designed for all high school students. The curriculum helps teachers teach knowledge about HIV and AIDS as well as communication and refusal skills, regarding sexual behaviors. While the emphasis is on abstinence, "Be Proud" does include condom use skills. The five-hour curriculum is on the list of the CDC's evaluated curricula. Along with the curriculum manual, a video tape sampler, and packet of materials is included.
Get Real About AIDS
"Get Real......." provides skills-based HIV/AIDS education training to all grade levels. "Get Real......." is a 14-15 hour curriculum that includes Communication skills, refusal skills, decision making skills, and, where appropriate, condom use skills. "Get Real........." is on the list of the CDC's evaluated curricula.

For more information, please e-mail the HEEF Administrator,

Michael Pejsach, Ed.D., CHES at the following e-mail address: michael.pejsach@cmich.edu)

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