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Helping
Kids Learn to Make Healthy Choices
Healthy
Choices, a four-week program, developed for
grade 7 & 8 students was delivered to
approximately 1500 students throughout the
Leeds Grenville and Lanark area in 2000.
Public Health Nurses used interactive and
innovative ways to educate students through
a wide variety of activities, games, videos,
worksheets and discussions. The topics
covered during this four-week program were
self-esteem, body image, peer pressure,
relationships, abuse, drugs, stress, injury
prevention and finally how to use this
information to make the healthiest choice
possible. The evaluation indicated that
Healthy Choices had a statistically
significant impact on student's knowledge
about the above topics. One student reported
learning to “be the way I want to be, not
the way someone else wants me to be, and to
say no to drugs no matter what anyone says”. |
“be
the way I want to be, not the way someone
else wants me to be, and to say no to drugs
no matter what anyone says”
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