Centre for Health Promotion
University of Toronto
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Toronto, ON
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E-Info Update Spring 2007

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Director’s Remarks

Spring 2007 and health promotion is a busy field! As you can see from this newsletter, a lot is happening connected to the Centre for Health Promotion and we continue to play a role locally in Ontario, Canada and internationally. In my remarks, I would like to talk about some of the items that are not covered in the rest of the newsletter. I was invited to assist the “Kids in Cardiff” project (near Bancroft, Ontario) with a participatory data analysis process like I did with the “Count Us In” and the “Marginalized Women and Stroke” projects in Toronto. I am trying to write up this process for publication and it was presented as a poster at the Community-Campus Partnerships conference here in Toronto in April. This is a process to engage all members of a research team in all steps of the data analysis process, including community members who have been trained to become “Inclusion Researchers.”

I have been very involved with colleagues from the Community Health Centre sector (AOHC and CACHCA) in preparing a proposal to study primary health systems in Canada and the mix of models that best fit with different community contexts. This multidisciplinary team includes investigators from University of Montreal (Paul Lamarche and others), University of Ottawa (Rose-Ann Devlin), and University of Toronto (Jan Barnsley and me) as well as decision-makers/policy-makers from various jurisdictions in Canada. The proposal was submitted to Canadian Health Services Research Foundation on April 20. This project to look at the fit between interventions, context and outcomes in primary health services is one piece in a series of studies related to exploring the evaluation issues of multi-level and multi-strategy interventions. I was also invited to be part of a writing team by Nancy Edwards to explore this issue at a forum in Ottawa in early February.

This is the year of Summer Schools! In addition to the Centre’s exciting annual Ontario Health Promotion Summer School on Mental Health Promotion in June, I am working with a team in the Yukon to run a Spring School on health promotion/chronic disease prevention for First Nations communities there at the end of May, and another school for Serbian and Bosnian practitioners in July. The Spring School in the Yukon is part of my work as a Co-Investigator on Kue Young’s CIHR Team grant on Circumpolar Health.

The other major activity is the work of the Centre as a focus for international health promotion. We submitted our renewal application for WHO Collaborating Centre status in January and we continue to build our relationships with PAHO and WHO-Geneva. We have been invited to discuss with Dr. Etienne in PAHO how to “mainstream” health promotion in that organization. We continue to play a role in the IUHPE, especially this year because of the international conference in Vancouver in June.

I’m sure you are also engaged and excited by the health promotion possibilities in your area of action.

--Suzanne F. Jackson, Director

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News from the Centre

Reza Shidfar from Iran is continuing to study the experience of Iranian immigrants to Canada from a health promotion perspective; and

Abdul Fattah continues to develop projects in Bangladesh and Ontario, and volunteer at the Centre.  Most recently, he worked on a successful CIHR grant application with Reg Warren-National Project Unit Co-ordinator that will examine the payback of early clinical or basic cardiovascular research.
 
Lian Zhang is visiting from Zheng Zhou (Henan Province), China. She arrived at the beginning of April and will be in Toronto for one year.

Two Masters students, Kristin Haefner and Nicole Siegmund from University of Magdeburg, Germany also arrived at the beginning of April as part of the CEIHPAL Exchange program.  They will each be working on projects with the Centre into the summer.

-- Suzanne F. Jackson, Director

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News from The Health Communication Unit (THCU)

THCU in cooperation with the Middlesex-London Health Unit presented the Introduction to Evaluating Health Promotion Programs workshop on November 21 and 22, 2006. Over 60 people attended the event which was held at the Grosvenor Club in London, Ontario. Robb MacDonald was the facilitator for the two day event.

The Introduction to Health Promotion Program Planning workshop was held at Oakham House in Toronto, January 30 and 31, 2007. Larry Hershfield and Heather Graham facilitated the workshop with 48 participants.

THCU offered two online webinar events during March:

  • From Strategic Plan to Program Plan and Back Again took place on March 21, 2007. This hour and a half session discussed ways to better understand the connection between strategic planning and program planning in an interactive format. Nancy Dubois and Robb MacDonald from The Health Communication Unit facilitated the session.
  • Breastfeeding Initiatives: Managing the Planning, Implementation and Evaluation Process was presented on March 27, 2007. Jodi Thesenvitz and Robb MacDonald from THCU and Hiltrud Dawson from Best Start facilitated the popular session. The challenges and opportunities in planning, promoting and evaluating breastfeeding programs were covered.

In addition, THCU facilitated 7 regional (upon request) workshops in various locations across the province. 

Developing Health Promotion Policy/Media Advocacy
November 1, 2006 at Porcupine Health Unit, Timmins

Media Skills
November 21, 2006 at Durham Lives Project, Regional Municipality of Durham, Whitby

Overview of Health Communications
December 6, 2006 at Health Action Windsor, Windsor-Essex County Health Unit, Windsor

Logic Models
January 19, 2007 at York Region Health Services, Richmond Hill

Introduction to Evaluating Health Promotion Programs
February 14, 2007 at Kingston Community Health Centre, Kingston

Social Marketing
February 19, 2007 at Best Start Conference, Toronto

Strengthening Personal Presentations
March 29, 2007 at Leeds, Grenville & Lanark District Health Unit, Smiths Falls

New Resources
THCU has three case study series’ in which real-life examples are followed through step models for planning, evaluation and health communication campaign development. Recent additions to our series include:

THCU’s 12 Step Communication Model

  • Case Study 7: “2 for 2 is What You Do," Ontario Association for Public Health Dentistry 

Implementing THCU’s Six Step Health Promotion Planning Model

  • Case Study 1: Child Nutrition Network of Haldimand Norfolk
  • Case Study 2: Middlesex-London Early Childhood Injury Prevention Project
  • Case Study 3: Thunder Bay Healthy Weights Strategy

Implementing THCU’s 10 Step Evaluation Model

  • Case Study 1: The Purple Envelope, Smoke-free Homes and Asthma a Pre-Post Evaluation Survey
  • Case Study 2: Remembering When, A Summative Evaluation of Falls and Fire Prevention Workshops

Three of our regular website features were updated with much new information for health promoters:

  • Thirty new files chronicle the results of literature searches conducted for clients on topics ranging from preconceptional health in men to journals that deal with women's health issues to using social cognitive theory in health promotion.
  • Our What We're Reading column was updated in November and February, including reviews of articles from the Journal of Health Communication, Vol 11(1) -- an issue focusing on ten years of health communication research.
  • The Guide to THCU's French Language Resources/ Ressources en français now includes an overview of our services for francophone clients, with updated resources to our translated resources.

We have new and updated workshop materials from two of our popular health communication offerings: An updated workbook for “Strengthening Personal Presentations” and a new presentation and “At-a-Glance Summary” for Making the Case.

Ontario Health Promotion Email Bulletin (OHPE)
The OHPE Bulletin, a weekly newsletter we produce with the Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse, celebrated its 500th issue in February with a reader contest. Read the anniversary issue on our website at http://www.ohpe.ca/ (issue 500 from February 2, 2007) for details. Other recent THCU-authored articles include

  • Implementing THCU’s Six Step Health Promotion Planning Model--Middlesex-London Early Childhood Injury Prevention Project
  • Branding for the Non-Profit Sector
  • Buzz for Behaviour Change (also available on THCU's website as a PDF file)
  • Looking Back and Looking Ahead in Health Promotion--our manager, Larry Hershfield, contributed to this New Year's issue and you can talk with him about his views at our weblog, the Learning Community, at http://www.thcu.ca/blogs/lc/

THCU's Workplace Project
THCU’s Workplace Project is concluding its 7th year of promoting comprehensive workplace health promotion to intermediaries across Ontario. The Workplace Project team, already consisting of Larry Hershfield, Nancy Dubois, Tricia Wilkerson and Ali Kilbourn, welcomed new members Nancy van Boxmeer and Giovanna Ferrara.

Ontario Healthy Workplace Coalition
This year, we continued to facilitate the development of the Ontario Healthy Workplace Coalition (OHWC). This resulted in the March 27-28 Ontario Healthy Workplace Coalition Symposium: Taking the First Step Together, which was attended by over 100 workplace health stakeholders in Ontario.  The Coalition is making exciting progress, with an online election for the inaugural OHWC Steering Committee to commence in late April 2007. 

E-learning
We have offered a successful series of comprehensive workplace health promotion webinars from January to April 2007 on topics such as: Influencing the Organizational Environment, Making the Business Case, and Evaluating CWHP.

Resources and Website
Our newest resource, the online Well-Regarded Intervention Catalogue contains a variety of accessible, useable and well-regarded workplace interventions. We will continue to add interventions to the Catalogue as they are nominated.

We have also been working this year to update our resources and website (www.thcu.ca/workplace). Check back soon to see the updated website, as well as new resources, including:

  • A video (with PowerPoint slides) of Graham Lowe’s key note presentation from our March 2006 Provincial Gathering. The presentation is entitled “The cultural foundations of health and performance” and includes a facilitated group discussion by Dr. Lowe. 
  • Updated version of Making Cents of a Good Idea: The Business Case for Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion

Hardcopies of Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion: Recommended and Promising Practices for Situational Assessment Tools are available for free from the Workplace Project (in limited numbers)!

If you have Workplace Project questions, comments and/or requests for materials, please contact Ali Kilbourn at workplace_admin@thcu.ca.

Youth Tobacco Vortal Project
The Youth Tobacco Vortal Project is now in its 7th year of encouraging and supporting community public health agencies make use of web-based technologies to communicate with and engage young people in tobacco control issues.  The project’s central website, Smoke FX (www.smoke-fx.com), provides local agencies a gateway to information and resources targeting young people.

Since its inception, the Youth Tobacco Vortal Project has grown to include 43 community-based affiliate sites, 11 of which joined this year.  The majority of these new affiliates were Youth Action Alliances (YAA) representing the various regions throughout Ontario.  The YTVP supports its affiliate base by assisting them in developing their own regional websites that focus on tobacco control and youth.  As of March 31st, 2007 all YAAs are now an affiliate of the project and many of these YAAs worked with the YTVP web development team to create their regional site(s).  As part of the YTVP’s promotional campaign the YTVP affiliates all received bookmarks promoting SmokeFX and its network of sites. 

The YTVP continues to grow and evolve as a result of a partnership that was formed with Smoke Free Ontario’s Stupid.ca (www.stupid.ca) campaign in 2005.  Changes were made to both websites over the past year in order to link the sites in a seamless manner.  In June 2006, SmokeFX was re-designed to complement the new look of Stupid.ca II.  Stupid.ca added links to SmokeFX encouraging visitors to visit SmokeFX’s Blowing Smoke – Local Scene and Homework Help section.  SmokeFX profiled Stupid.ca on its homepage.  In addition, the Homework Help section has been undergoing a complete re-development.

There are some exciting plans for the 2007/08, including further re-development of SmokeFX and growth and expansion of the YTVP affiliate pool.

Comments and/or questions about the Youth Tobacco Vortal Project can be directed to Julie Duda (SmokeFX.Julie@thcu.ca).

-- Cathy Duerden, Julie Duda, Ali Kilbourn, Noelle Gadon

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News from the International Health Promotion Unit

Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina Youth and Health Project
This is a Canadian Society for International Health (CSIH) /World University Service of Canada (WUSC) project funded by CIDA. The three year project aims to improve access to primary health in Bosnia I Herzegovina [BiH] and Serbia for youth and especially vulnerable and extremely vulnerable youth.

There are very few youth friendly clinics or services available for youth in these countries that are struggling to recover from civil war and economic decline. Youth feel isolated and there is an increase in drug use and suicides that goes along with high youth unemployment. In many parts access to services such as recreation is limited.

The BYHP is divided into policy development, improved information and data bases, improved access to youth friendly services and building capacity for service providers and youth outreach.
Suzanne Jackson is the lead advisor to the improved service delivery which includes improving youth friendly access to services and developing curriculum in adolescent health for health care providers, Fran Perkins is the lead advisor on NGO engagement and youth outreach. This includes designing alternate access to primary health, and strengthening capacity of NGOs. Charlotte Lombardo is the Youth Outreach consultant and will be using a train the trainer approach to bring Youth Voices to youth engagement in the local action sites. Larry Hershfield is the communications consultant and will help build capacity in communications strategies.

All in all, this is a complex project with many different sites and two countries. BiH is also divided into two entities. This means that potentially the project may have three different approaches to addressing youth issues.

A big focus is being put on Health Promotion and the CHP will receive 23 participants this summer for a “Youth-Friendly Health Promotion Summer School”.

Canadian Office for NARO/IUHPE
The International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) is holding elections this year both at the regional and global level.   IUHPE is in a period of transition and in this electronic era will be considering the relevance of Regions and regional offices in the next few years. Discussions are being held regarding possibly engaging members electronically by topics. As with many Boards it is part of a cyclical strategic planning process and we are only at the stage of beginning this process.  Fran Perkins attended the Board of Directors meeting in Paris in December most of the meeting addressed by-law amendments, the upcoming conference and elections.

IUHPE Conference in Vancouver
Plans for the IUHPE Conference in Vancouver in June 2007 were in the home stretch over the last four months. Fran and Suzanne were involved in reviewing abstracts (over 2000 abstracts accepted) and Suzanne, as Director of the Centre for Health Promotion, sits as a member of the Board of Directors (the Canadian Consortium for Health Promotion Research) that oversees the whole event.

For more information on the 9th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion and Health Education – Vancouver 2007, see www.iuhpeconference.org.

Presentation in Chile
Suzanne was invited to present at the second “Congreso en Promoción de la Salud in Santiago, Chile in January 2007. She gave presentations on evaluation and taking evidence into action.

Mental Health Promotion Symposium in Vancouver
In collaboration with partners across Canada, the CHP and CAMH have been co-chairing the committee planning an international mental health promotion symposium to be held just before the IUHPE conference in Vancouver on June 10, 2007.  The event is called “No Health Without Mental Health: Community Approaches to Mental Health Promotion” and there are speakers from Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Congo, Chile, Ireland, WHO Europe, USA and Canada at this event. Mohini Athia at the CHP has been the webmaster for the website. For more information, please go to http://www.utoronto.ca/chp/MentalHealthSymposium2007/MentalHealthSymposium2007.html

Masters Global Health Concentration
The Global Public Health core course in Public Health Sciences at University of Toronto was offered for the first time from January to April with Suzanne as the course coordinator. The course covered generic topics in global health like working with international organizations, planning and ethics as well as provided an overview of the global health aspects of public health disciplines, such as epidemiology, health promotion, community nutrition, occupational and environmental health, and primary care. Interest in a global health concentration associated with one of the basic public health disciplines increased among MHSc. applications to Public Health Sciences for admission in September 2007.

-- Fran Perkins and Suzanne F. Jackson

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News from the Youth Engagement Unit
TeenNet is now Youth Voices!!!  To mark our new identity as the Youth Engagement Unit of the Centre for Health Promotion, TeenNet is in the process of re-branding to become Youth Voices. Within this new branding “TeenNet” will remain a project under the Youth Voices umbrella. Other project areas will include “Youthbet”, our initiative for the prevention and intervention of youth gambling problems, and “Global Youth Voices”, our initiative for inter-cultural expression and dialogue using media arts.  Check us out at our new, evolving, website: www.youthvoices.ca.
   
New Projects
The 5 E’s for Health: Understanding eLiteracies for eLearning in Electronic Educational Environments
We are pleased to have received a grant from the Canada Council on Learning, to evaluate our eLearning resources developed with the Gendering Adolescent HIV/AIDS Prevention Project and TakingITGlobal. We are currently seeking high school teachers to participate in this evaluation by pilot testing “TIG Xpress - HIV/AIDS” and the “Virtual Classroom for Tobacco Control” with their classes. Stipends are available for both teachers and students; please contact us if you would like more information.

Youth Engagement in Ontario: Towards a Community of Practice
We have are also pleased to have received funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada, to explore the development of a community of practice amongst Ontario practitioners undertaking youth engagement activities around the determinants of health.

Balkans Youth and Health Project
This CIDA-funded project seeks to develop capacity for responsive and accountable youth-friendly primary health care. We will be providing training for the project’s Local Action Sites, on our Youth Voices process for engaging youth in expression and action.

WATI
We have just finished an inventory of Web-Assisted Tobacco Interventions, with funding from Health Canada. Now freely available at www.wati.net, this inventory is the first of its kind, developed to inform researchers and practitioners on state of the art initiatives in tobacco control.

For more information on any of our initiatives please contact Youth Voices project manager, Charlotte Lombardo at 416-978-2201, c.lombardo@utoronto.ca.

Checking Out
It is with reluctance that we say goodbye to our Middle East project coordinator Suhail Abual Sameed. Suhail is leaving us to focus full-time on his work with Supporting Our Youth and the Sherbourne Health Centre. Suhail will be missed, though we are confident that we will find continued ways to work together, as per the old (adopted) TeenNet maxim, “you can check out any time, but you can never really leave”!

-- Charlotte Lombardo

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Ontario Health Promotion Summer School 2006 (HPSS)

June 25-27, 2007 (Preschool : June 24th) Toronto, Crowne Plaza Don Valley Hotel

2007 Theme: Mental Health Promotion

HPSS is brought to life each year by planning committees that develop a rich and stimulating curriculum. This year is no exception, with a tremendous array of lectures, workshops and interactive discussion groups highlighting the theme mental health promotion.

Series 1 (First Peoples), Series 2 (Francophone) and Series 3 (General) are replete with fascinating presenters —  the Chief of Pic Mobert on the subject of youth and suicide, ex-Judge Andrée Ruffo, on the subject of children and mental health, the Dream Team, advocates for adequate housing for consumers, Paul-André Gauthier, the president of the francophone provincial association of nurses, on the subject of work-life balance, Dr. Joel Lexchin, physician, professor and activist on the subject of pharmaceutical use and abuse… and many, many more.

Our ‘extra-curricular’ activities are inviting as well: the First Peoples’ banquet includes a youth performance troupe, Sweet Grass Drummers and Dancers and a fantastic traditional menu; the Francophone lunch-time menu with international francophone cuisine and story-telling; special workshops on art, healing, yoga…and sports and spa services available at the hotel.

Registration has begun – and Early Bird ends April 30. You can register on-line or by fax or mail in your registration. Information about registration and HPSS 2007 is on our web site: www.utoronto.ca/chp/hpss.

Don’t forget – nurses can get a subsidy for their registration fees from the RNAO (membership not necessary) – access the form on the HPSS website.  And those attending Series 2 (French-language series) can take advantage of a travel and lodging subsidy (please contact the HPSS Coordinator to register for this).

Spread the word! If you would like a poster, please ask! For an electronic copy, visit our web site.

To speak directly with the HPSS Coordinator, please contact Lisa at 416-46-4632 or hpss@rogers.com

-- Lisa Weintraub


Update on Centre's Special Projects

Masters Students

Julie Atkinson, in collaboration with coordinators of Better Beginnings Now, Building Brighter Futures, and staff of the North Toronto Early Parenting Program, tested a tool to measure maternal self-efficacy.  The appropriateness of existing tools for use within immigrant populations has not been established.  As part of her research, Julie interviewed mothers with infants under the age of one, who attended the winter 2007 session of these early parenting programs.  She hoped to gain a better understanding of how the measurement tool could be utilized in future program evaluations to determine whether or not parenting programs affect maternal self-efficacy.

Nilusha Jiwani-Ebrahim completed her placement at the Centre for Health Promotion as part of her Master of Nursing program. During this time, she interviewed practitioners from a variety of organizations working with seniors about the usefulness, relevance, and format of the draft document entitled Mental Health Promotion Best Practice Guidelines for Older Adults 55+. Recommendations to enhance the document were made based on the feedback gathered. This project was a collaboration between the Centre for Health Promotion, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Toronto Public Health.-- Suzanne F. Jackson

National Projects
The National Projects Unit has been commissioned by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to lead a Canadian team on an international multi-agency study examining the payback of early clinical or basic cardiovascular research. Researchers from the Centre will conduct and write up 12 case studies of cardiovascular research that have been funded by the Heart and Stroke Association of Canada and/or CIHR using a RAND/HERG (Health Economics Research Group) case study methodology and participate in international group reviews and scoring of Canadian case studies compared to UK, Australia and New Zealand

.-- Reg Warren

 


Update on the Special Interest Groups

Cancer Prevention Interest Group
Ground-breaking national cancer prevention conference
Cancer: It’s About Prevention, It’s About Time!  May 24-27, 2007
This first-of-a-kind national cancer conference will be held at the University of Ottawa  from May 24-27, 2007, drawing concerned citizens and leading experts from Canada and the United States to take action to stop cancer before it starts. A significant part of the agenda will focus on detoxifying our homes, schools, workplaces and the environment-at-large.  The conference is being organized by the new national coalition called Prevent Cancer Now.
For more information and to register: www.preventcancernow.ca 

Or contact:
Angela Rickman, Executive Director, Prevent Cancer Now
613-482-8124
angedave@istar.ca
Liz Armstrong, Conference Organizer
519-833-7202  
liz@ican.net

-- Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg

Ontario Healthy Schools Coalition (OHSC)
The OHSC continues to be very busy. The high note of the last few months has been the joint announcement in December by the Ministries of Education and Health Promotion of the “Healthy Schools Recognition Program/ Healthy Schools Challenge.” While there is still a great deal of work to be done due to the lack of funding for this initiative, it is a very positive policy step forward in Ontario.

The OHSC continues to give input to the Ministries of Health Promotion, Health, and Education on Comprehensive School Health/ Health Promoting Schools.  In particular, we contributed through OPHA to the consultation process for the draft Ontario Public Health Standards and we participate in meetings of the Healthy Schools Working Table convened by the Ministry of Education.

We have hosted two province-wide teleconferences, with 79 attending in February and 63 in April. These meetings are a mixture of presentations of new initiatives and information-sharing. Some attend in person in Toronto, while others link in by phone.

The 6th annual forum will be held this year in Kingston on June 1st.
Partnership and Engagement for Healthy Schools

As we have so many members that consistently attend meetings and our work is becoming better known, we have decided to re-examine our mission and strategic directions from 2002 to see if they are still relevant today. OHSC is a volunteer-based organization and, by the numbers that attend the teleconferences or respond to requests for information, the coalition is meeting unmet needs for inter-sectoral coordination and communication for Healthy Schools across the Province. The next year will be another exciting and busy one!!!

-- Carol MacDougall and Fran Perkins. Co-Chairs, Ontario Healthy Schools Coalition

 Healthy U of T Awards
At the CHP Annual General Meeting on November 30, 2006 Diana Alli was presented the 2006 Healthy U of T Award in the Individual category. Diana is the Coordinator of Student Affairs at the Faculty of Medicine.  As many supporters attest, it is an understatement to say that she has gone above and beyond the call of duty during her more than 30 years of service for the UofT and larger Toronto community.

Diana helped start the Summer Mentorship Program in 1994 for students of Black and Aboriginal ancestry who are underrepresented in healthcare. Today over 3000 students have completed this program.  She founded the Saturday Tutoring Program in 1996 for inner-city high school students at risk of failing or dropping out of school. This has helped the high school students plus over 2000 UofT students who have benefited from mentoring and teaching them. She is the founder of Earthtones and Rhythms and Dance – two annual musical benefit concerts that have raised over $100,000 for international and local aid; founder of “Out of the Cold” programs in two downtown centres, Medlife at the Faculty of Medicine and the list goes on! This is in addition to the support she gives to numerous Faculty of Medicine student clubs and as a member of the Advisory Group for the Transitional Year Program. 

She has undoubtedly fulfilled her role of making a lasting contribution to the physical, mental, social and spiritual health of student life on campus and of wellbeing in the community at large.  Diana is celebrated for her untiring, enthusiastic and passionate work in teaching others about respect, pluralism and altruism. Diana was nominated by Sagar Dugani, an MD/PhD student in the Faculty of Medicine with letters of support from her colleagues and students.

SHOP (Student Health Outreach Program) was presented the 2006 Healthy UofT Award in the Group category in recognition of the dedicated group of student volunteers who spend time educating and talking to their peers about health issues. 

The SHOP program began as a peer-to-peer education pilot project in 1991 and has now grown to 30+ student volunteers who are peer health educators.  SHOP has also inspired the formation of Toronto Peer Health Network by collaborating with Ryerson and York universities in training peer health educators.  SHOP volunteers are to be recognized for connecting students to campus life and services and helping them establish a foundation for healthy living during their university career and beyond.  SHOP Peer health educators provide safe, non-judgmental space for empathy, relationship building and understanding.  They create and staff displays, produce a newsletter, deliver presentations to student groups/residences, orientation events, annual Health Fair and partner with other campus initiatives to reach as many students as they can.  And they do it all in a fun, entertaining and informative way! The SHOP Program was nominated by Dr. Sara Taman, Physician-in Chief of Health Services and supported by letters from students and colleagues.  

These Healthy UofT Awards recognize an individual or a group of students, staff, and/or faculty members at the University of Toronto that have made a substantial and long lasting healthy difference to the campus community.   The 2006 Committee included representatives from the faculty, staff and student body.  The Centre for Health Promotion would like to thank the Healthy UofT Committee Chair, Geraldine (Jody) Macdonald, and committee members Myra Lefkowitz, Glenna Hilborn, Bronwyn Underhill, Uitsile Ndlovu, Shan Mohammed and Mohini Athia.

-- Mohini Athia

 

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