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Canada's monthly school health report from the Canadian Association for School Health
Volume 4 Issue 67 (February(March 2010)
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Featuring aResearch, ComprehensiveReports Approachand toResources Servingon Serving Disadvantaged Communities

The feature article this month is a second installment on the basistheme of our sixth annual conference being held in at the Ramada Plaza Hotel Dartmouth, April 21-23, 2010. The article identifies research, thereports issuesand resources that are more relevant to low income, geographically or culturally isolated communities as well as students facing significant disparities, vulnerabilities or disadvantage because of ordiscrimination based race, language, gender or other forms of discrimination.orientation.

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  • Schools for All. A National Conference on Alleviating Disadvantage. April 21-23, Halifax, NS
    See the PreliminaryFinal Program and Registration page. Registration is was $325 for SH Knowledge Network Members, $475 for non members. The registration fee includes access to fourfive webinars heldto be held jointly with an international SH Symposium in Geneva in July.

  • OurNational IndigenousConsultation on 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 SchoolMental Health Conference and the July international school health symposium in Geneva.Leadership is also. beingCASH demonstratedwill bybe anotherlooking Chairfor ofyour onefeedback ofto guide our Communities ofinput Practiceinto (CoP).several Marynational McKenna,initiatives fromrelating UNBto schools and Chair of the School Nutrition CoP, wasmental instrumentalhealth. inThese initiatinginclude a recent national meeting of government officials on school nutrition policies. Our School Mental Health CoP Co-Chair, Gloria Wells, has engagedconsortium in a cross-border conversationproject, consultation with a similar CoP on SMH in the United States. Watch for further news very soon. CASH is working with nine other national organizations to develop a Consensus Statement on SchoolCanadian MentalPopulation Health. This statement will be used to influence the development of youth mental health framework as well as the overall nationalInitiative, 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 pageCanada and use the wiki tools to make a comment or editseries theof documentwebinars online.on implementation strategies.

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  • The CSH Knowledge Network list of SH contacts has grown to over 2500 people. We are continuing to transfer the email contacts lists over to the professional networking web site at www.canadianschoolhealth.ca. Agencies, organizations and individuals will be able to control the email they receive from this wiki-based web site through their own profiles. (This occurs by "watching" or "unwatching" selected pages). As well, they will be able to use the tools on the web site to interact with others and receive RSS feeds from the daily blog of SH news.

  • The Fall/Winter (2009) issue of the CTF-CASH Health and Learning Magazine is currently being distributed by email to school boards and schools across Canada. The back issues of this magazine will be posted on this web site. CASH is now asking the SH Contacts in all 500 school boards to either agree to forward email alerts of new issues or to pass along their email lists. All of these requests have been granted so far by these wonderful people. To receive an email alert whenever the new electronic tri-annual publication is published, please contact dmccall@cash-aces.ca


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