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This page reports the latest news from the Canadian School Health (CSH) Knowledge Network. Most recent items are posted at the top of the page.

  • How Tweet! Do you have SH news you want to share with 2500 other Canadian SH practitioners. Then feel free to post your news on the shared "CSH Tweets" account on Twitter. Simply go to www.twitter.com/cshtweets, sign in as user "cshtweets`, password `cash-aces and post your news. Those tweets and other items posted on this web site through posting updates directly onto our School Health Blog will be included in this e-mail out to 2500 people. This process is starting to work, with three recent postings coming directly from other organizations into the School Health Blog. (Posted March 21-10)

  • Schools for All. A National Conference on Alleviating Disadvantage. April 21-23, Halifax, NS
    See the Preliminary Program and Registration page. Registration is $325 for SH Knowledge Network Members, $475 for non members. The registration fee includes access to several webinars held jointly with an international SH Symposium in Geneva in July.(Posted Mar 15-10)

  • Our Indigenous School Health Framework, a document developed in consultation with and led by Canada's aboriginal communities, has been noticed world-wide, with presentations by CoP Chair Shirley Tagalik at the November 2009 American School Health Conference and the July international school health symposium in Geneva.(Posted Mar 3-10)

  • Leadership is also being demonstrated by another Chair of one of our Communities of Practice (CoP). Mary McKenna, from UNB and Chair of the School Nutrition CoP, was instrumental in initiating a recent national meeting of government officials on school nutrition
    policies. (Posted Feb 28-10)

  • Our School Mental Health CoP Co-Chair, Gloria Wells, has engaged in a cross-border conversation with a similar CoP on SMH in the United States. Watch for further news very soon.(Posted February 20-10)

  • CASH is also collaborating with the 50+ members of the Canadian School Health NGO Network to find ways to use web 2.0 (social networking tools) more effectively. Potential activities include shared access to a Twitter account that "follows" health and education feeds from a wide variety of organizations, joint posting on the "CSH Tweets" that are also posted on this web site and posting updates directly onto our School Health Blog. This process is starting to work, with three recent postings coming directly from other organizations into the School Health Blog. (Updated Feb 14-10)

  • The National School Health Conference for 2009-10 will be held in Halifax in mid-April. Watch for more details here. The theme will be on how advocates of healthy schools, community schools and safe schools can work together to support schools serving disadvantaged communities. (Updated January 15-10)

  • CASH is working with nine other national organizations to develop a Consensus Statement on School Mental Health. This statement will be used to influence the development of youth mental health framework as well as the overall national MH strategy being developed by the Mental Health Commission of Canada. As well, the statement will be the basis of input into a similar initiative developing a mental health component of the national Healthy Living Strategy. All comments and suggested changes are welcome. Visit the web page and use the wiki tools to make a comment or edit the document online. (Posted December 31-09)

  • CASH is also collaborating with the 50+ members of the Canadian School Health NGO Network to find ways to use web 2.0 (social networking tools) more effectively. Potential activities include shared access to a Twitter account that "follows" health and education feeds from a wide variety of organizations, joint posting on the "CSH Tweets" that are also posted on this web site and posting updates directly onto our School Health Blog. (Posted December 31-09)

  • The Fall (2009) issue of the CTF-CASH Health and Learning Magazine will be distributed by email to school boards and schools across Canada next month. (Reposted Dec 31-09)
  • The 2009-10 series of SH webinars is underway. Find out more at: http://www.safehealthyschools.org/webinars/introduction.htm.The current schedule contains eight of the planned 30 sessions. (Posted Sep 30-09)

  • CASH has working with the National Collaborating Centre on Aboriginal Health, the CCL Aboriginal Learning Centre and the Centre of Excellence on Special Needs to prepare a culturally relevant approach to SH for aboriginal students, schools and communities. A literature review and inventory has been completed. A statement of principles has been developed and can be found at: http://aboriginalschoolhealth.wetpaint.com/ CASH is pleased to announce that it will be working with the Centre on Addictions & Mental Health at the University of Western Ontario on a handbook/webinar project that will provide advice and tools to implement the principles established in the paper. (Posted September 30-09)
  • Members of the Community of Practice on Substance Abuse Prevention and all Knowledge Network members are invited to comment on the national School Standards being prepared by the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse. Go to our wiki-based work space to add your comments and edits at: http://draftshpapers.wetpaint.com/ (Posted Sept 15-09)
  • The CSH Knowledge Network list of SH contacts has grown to over 2900 people and over 250 agencies/individuals have either paid a membership fee or contributed their time/expertise to receive additional services. The next step begins this month, as we move the contacts list and other communications into a professional networking web site at www.canadianschoolhealth.ca. Agencies, organizations and individuals wil be able to post theor own profiles, interact with others and visit/receive RSS feeds from the daily blog of SH news. Go here for more details: http://canadianschoolhealthprofiles.wetpaint.com/ (Posted Sep 15-09)