This wiki-based web site brings together over 2500 school health contacts from local health authorities, agencies, school boards, health authorities, provincial/territorial ministries, non-governmental organizations and universities across Canada.

The web site is the home for several networks, including a national NGO network with over 50 organizations, a national researchers network and several national Communities of Practice on topics such as substance abuse, nutrition and aboriginal school health. The Canadian Association for School Health, the facilitator for this web site, has also been a leader in the use of webinars.

The web site has several publications which can be "watched" for updates by members of the School Health Knowledge Network by changing the settings in the profiles that they create for themselves when they join this wiki-based community.
These include:

• a daily selection of items in our School Health News Blog
• a monthly report, Knowledge Matters, which includes a different feature article each month
• a teachers/front-line practitioners magazine published three times yearly
  
• a "news" page that contains RSS and Twitter feeds from selected sources
  

The wiki-based tools enables members of this community to edit text on pages, post comments about the content and communicate with other members of the knowledge network using the messages tools within the wiki. Once you have joined and created a profile, you can choose to have those messages forwarded to your regular email address or leave them here within the web site.

We are also experimenting with several social/professional networking tools, See the Tech Test Drive page where we are continuing to try out these tools, in cooperation with many of our NGO and government partners.

• 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