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New from CHHCS: The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools invites you to visit its new Students portal with links to games, information, and activities on many health topics. Please invite your children and students to take part in this opportunity to learn more about their health. http://www.healthinschools.org/students/

Starter Kit Complement: Teen Pregnancy Prevention Marketing Piece ASTHO and CCSSO have designed a policy maker's guide, Power Point presentation (on CD-ROM) and a list of key resources on teen pregnancy prevention that can be packaged as part of the School Health Starter Kit or can serve as a stand-alone social marketing piece. Why Support School- Based Teen Pregnancy Prevention? A Primer for Action was designed for use by state and local health agencies, individual schools, school district officials, and community leaders to raise awareness about how teen pregnancy prevention efforts can contribute to overall student well being and performance. The Primer was developed to complement and extend the current ASTHO/CCSSO School Health Starter Kit, a collection of materials and communications tools on promoting a coordinated approach to school health. This teen pregnancy prevention supplement builds on the Starter Kit by showing how teen pregnancy prevention initiatives can be included in an overall coordinated school health effort. The materials can be used by health or education staff to give presentations to their peers, parents, and other leaders in the community. Just as the original Starter Kit was designed for maximum flexibility, the content of the supplement can be modified, and can even be combined with the original Kit materials. The Primer was developed with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Division of Adolescent and School Health (CDC/DASH). To order this free resource, contact Dana Katz at dkatz@astho.org. Please include complete addresses and the number of copies being requested.

Not US-American, not exclusively for residents but for practizing physicians, however the European website http://www.euteach.com might help you, it is interactive, case-based covering the core topics of adolescent medicine organized by basic and advanced modules.

The NTIAH (National training Initiative in Adolescent Health) in Canada is available at http://www.ntiah.org/

The Bright Futures Center for Education in Growth and Development and Adolescent Health has case-based education modules available at http://www.pedicases.org/ The cases are also available in the following monograph: Emans SJ, Knight JR, editors. Bright Futures Case Studies for Primary Care Clinicians: Adolescent Health. boston, MA: Bright Futures Center for Education in Child Growth and Development, Behavior and Adolescent Health; 2001. This may be ordered from: National Maternal and Child Health Clearinghouse 2070 Chain Bridge Rd, Suite 450 Vienna, VA 22182-1964 (888) 434-4624 e-mail: nmchc@circsol.com web site: www.nmchc.org

There is a web-based interactive immunization curriculum at www.musc.edu/tide that has an adolescent module. It has been used for private provider as well as resident training. CME is available for providers (physicians and nurses) and a certificate can be printed on completion for resident training. Another good place for provider education, although not specific to adolescents is the California Distance Learning Health Network. Satellite downlink broadcasts, web-based training, CD ROM Curricula and website information is located at www.cdlhn.com

The Minnesota Department of Health has developed a provider web site based on a "Teen Visit" format...the site includes screening tools, patient and parent handouts, and web-links...we use it to educate residents on preventive services...a quick way to get there is with Google: Minnesota Department of Health Adolescent....the URL is: (http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/chs/adolescent/)

The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) announce the release of the 2003 edition of Why Support a Coordinated Approach to School Health: The Coordinated School Health Starter Kit for use by state health officials, chief state school officers, and their staff to help build support in communities and schools for coordinated school health.

These materials were prepared in response to the needs expressed by state health officials and chief state school officers for (1) common language to describe the benefits of a coordinated approach to school health; (2) clear, jargon-free messages that resonate with target audiences (e.g. parents, teachers, and others who work in schools and school administration); and (3) effective tools to enable action. To meet these objectives the Kit contains easy-to-use, research-based tools and materials to educate and motivate the public regarding school health issues. The Kit includes:

c A booklet for policy makers and opinion leaders
c Posters
c A wide range of resources to increase community awareness about the importance of school health
c A CD-ROM containing all the materials, graphics files, and text that were used to create the kit, for states to use in adapting the materials for their state or community

The revised version includes updated research, such as new Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey (YRBSS) data and Monitoring the Future surveys, as well as new quotes from policymakers and others working in health and education. Both versions were developed with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Division of Adolescent and School Health (CDC/DASH).

The cost of the new kit is $30.00 including postage. For more information or if you cannot open the order form below, please contact Nora Howley at norah@ccsso.org or Stephanie Yun at stephaniey@ccsso.org

The National Eye Institute (NEI), one of the Federal government's National Institutes of Health, is pleased to announce its support for a new national health observance: Healthy Vision Month. The first Healthy Vision Month in May 2003 will focus on reducing blindness and visual impairment in children and adolescents. Ideas and free materials, including the Healthy Vision Month 2003 Resource Guide, Healthy Vision Month-at-a-Glance Calendar, and separate Activity Books for children aged 6-8 and 9-12 are available at the Healthy Vision Month Web site at http://www.healthyvision2010.org/HVM2003 The Healthy Vision Month-at-a-Glance Calendar has 31 facts, tips, and myths about eyes and vision. This foldout poster calendar can help you promote the importance of healthy vision to school-aged children. The activity books contain a variety of activities and games that will teach children about eye disease, eye safety, and first aid for eye injuries. For more information, contact hvm@shs.net

-------------------- A new publication, Building Emergency Contraception Awareness Among Adolescents: A Tool Kit for Schools and Community-Based Organizations contains a wealth of practical information, materials, and resources focused on increasing awareness about pills that can prevent pregnancy up to five days after unprotected sex. The tool kit was developed by staff at the Academy for Educational Development for a national audience of administrators in schools and youth serving agencies, teachers, student support personnel, youth workers, and school-based health practitioners. The tool kit is the culmination of five years of experience increasing EC awareness and access, including the successful two-year project, “You Cant Teach What You Dont Know.” Contact AED for a copy of the tool kit or download a PDF file from the AED web site www.aed.org/healthpublications.html under the heading “Community Health Programs.4 For more information contact Linda Simkin, lsimkin@aed.org , 212-367-4562 (phone).

PREGNANCY PREVENTION: NEW WEB SITE TARGETS TEENS' SEXUAL RISK-TAKING BEHAVIOR
ETR Associates, a not-for-profit health education promotion organization, recently launched its Resource Center for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Web site to help health educators and program coordinators reduce sexual risk-taking behaviors among teens. The Web site, at http://www.etr.org/recapp, compiles data on the best practices in pregnancy prevention education, information on evidence-based programs that change sexual risk-taking behavior and the latest statistics, news summaries, and current research briefs in the field of teen pregnancy prevention. The Web site also hosts a resource database of education material and a calendar of pregnancy prevention events.

University of Toronto has created "CyberIsle" a web site which uses the metaphor of a "Teens ONLY" island. Teens can make there way around the island where there is health information, interactive quizzes and discussion groups. For instance, you can go to the beach day or night and get all kinds of health information. There are washrooms where health information is posted. In addtion, there are numerous quizzes regarding lifestyle assessment, guided change, decision balance and quality of life. CyberIsle also provides access to the TeenNet Home Page. You can visit CyberIsle at http://www.cyberisle.org

The School Health Program Finance Project database continues to expand and contains information about federal funding sources, and some foundation funding sources. This Data base is located on CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health's website at: http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/funding.htm

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified a fifth HIV -prevention curriculum as a Program That Works, "Focus On Kids" . This program targets African American and other youth ages 9 - 15, especially those living in low income urban areas. For information contact: Dean Fenley, Division of Adolescent and School Health, (770) 488-3183, E-mail: dmf2@cdc.gov

"Involving Males in Preventing Teen Pregnancy: A Guide for Program Planners" provides profiles of 24 pregnancy prevention programs that have successfully involved males. Available by writing: The Urban Institute, P.O.Box 7273, Dept. C, Washington, DC 20044. On line version at the Urban Institute's website: http://www.urban.org

The Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) focuses on HIV prevention through the expertise of multiple disciplines and an applied and community-based perspective within a university setting. http://www.caps.ucsf.edu/

Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) - Live http://www.cadca.org

Join Together is a national resource center and meeting place for communities working to reduce substance abuse and gun violence. http://www.jointogether.org

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