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Bringing practitioners, researchers, officials and policy-makers together to promote health, safety and social development through schools.
This wiki-based community provides a common work space, a blog on Canadian school health news, the latest items posted from a Canadian Twitter feed and an international Twitter feed and a growing number of profiles posted by members of the community.

The site also provides access to our monthly report, Knowledge Matters, a bulletin that has been published since 2004. Over 2500 professionals, agencies, government officials, researchers and practitioners belong to this community.

The comprehensive approach to school-based and school-linked health promotion advocated by this web site and by over 25 Canadian organizations has been expressed in a consensus statement originally published in 1990 and revised in 2007.

The wiki also includes the content derived from our several national Communities of Practice that hold regular calls, webinars, annual symposia and projects organized by the CoP's that each bring together over 100 people working in local agencies, school boards, police departments as well as provincial/territorial officials and university faculties.

This wiki provides contact information and organizational/professional profiles about Canadian, provincial/territorial agencies and organizations as well as professionals that promote health, education, social development, equity, human rights and environmental citizenship through school-based and school-linked programs and initiatives. Please join this wiki, add the profile of your organization and your own work and use the tools within the profile to receive email notification of daily/weekly updates in our Canadian SH blog.

Contributing and paying members of the Canadian School Health Knowledge Network in 2011-12 will also have access to an international blog called the School Health Insider. This blog, written by several international and Canadian contributors, contains reports on countries/states/provinces, scans journals, visits selected web sites, and clips news from the media.This international blog will be open to non-members until December 31, 2011, after which, access will require a membership in the CSH Knowledge Network or similar organizations in other countries.

Why Start the Equivalent of Facebook in Canadian School Health?

Most organizations and local agencies have web sites and other materials explaining their work. However, often the school health aspects of their work is buried or not even presented on their web site because their major focus is on another topic, such as a health issue, services to their members or more general information for the public.Consequently, this wiki-based web site enables us to post specific items related to school health thereby making it more readily available to all of us working in school health promotion.

We ask visitors to this wiki to add information about their agency, organization or their professional resume/involvement. If you would like to participate in this on-line community, please join the wiki by selecting the button on the right hand side. (There are no fees for joining and your email address will not be provided to any third parties.)




How to Use this Wiki-based Web Site
(Here is our site map)

  • Learn more about how to edit, add and move pages as well as make comments within this wiki in our video/web tour. (Or, read these detailed instructions on using "Easy Edit" to change the text on pages, or how to create, move or work with pages.) (PS Almost all of the pages in this wiki are open for editing, only a few are locked because of they explain things about this web site or the online discussions are concluded.)
  • Add a profile of your own SH work in this wiki and you will be able to control the amount of email (from other members and about page changes) that you receive from this wiki. Learn how from our video/web tour on joining and creating a profile. (Or, read these detailed instructions on how to manage your wetpaint account or profile).

  • Learn how to "watch" and "unwatch" pages in this wiki by viewing this brief video. (Or, read these detailed instructions on managing your account from Wetpaint

  • Go to the Discussion Forum to read the threaded conversations from our Communities of Practice and other discussions on school health

By joining this wiki, you will be able to access this community and search for people and programs that match your current work priorities or professional interests. We ask that you complete the profile by following the instructions after you join the wiki by using this Professionals/Work Template. As well, by completing or adding to the the information about your organization, agency or network, you will enable others to know more about those activities and learn from those experiences. Please use the the templates for national/provincial/territorial initiatives, organizations or local agencies to describe their work in school health promotion. Use the navigation bar on the left to find your agency/network/organization. (They are organized by province/territory as well as at the national level. If it is not listed, please create an additional page under the appropriate page heading that particular list. You can also use the "profiles" tool to create an individual, professional profile. We have provided a template for that as well, which will appear as you use that tool.

You can enrich your experience within this wiki by viewing and adding to the SH Blog, Announcements & News page. You can also post comments in our Discussion Forum, create links to published papers and documents on other web sites, add sub-pages to add to your organization, country/state or professional profile and upload documents from your own computer as attachments to these pages. See these tools under the "More tools" menu on the top of each page.

You can choose to be notified (or not) by email about changes to any of the pages in this wiki by "watching or unwatching" the selected pages. You control this through settings within your profile for this wiki or by making that choice when you are on that page. Watch what is happening across Canada by using this tool. Or, turn off all of the notifications from this wiki and just visit and read it only when you have time to come back to this wiki.

Thank you for visiting and contributing to this wiki.

Please Invite Others

If you know of people that might be interested in this wiki, you can contact them directly, or use the "Invite" tool found in the tool bar at the top of the page.




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