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Association
for Worksite Health Promotion (AWHP)
"AWHP is a not-for-profit network of worksite health promotion professional
dedicated to sharing the best-of-practice methods, processes and technologies."
Association
of State and Territorial Directors of Health Promotion and Public Health Education
(ASTDHPPHE)
The mission of ASTDHPPHE is to "promote the quality practice of health
education and health promotion as core practices of public health practice and
to advocate for quality health education/promotion programs and strategies to
address the nation's leading health problems." Their site contains links
to on-line continuing education offerings; related resources, publications,
and ASTDHPPHE programs.
BADvertising
Institute
The BADvertising Institute's mission is "to immunize kids against tobacco,
inspire smokers to quit, and equip advocates and educators with the tools for
doing the same." They do this by powerful counter-advertising messages
in the form of exhibits, posters and billboards, slide presentations, workshops
and their web site.
Center
for the Advancement of Health
The Center is a nonprofit organization that seeks to integrate biology, behavior,
psychology, and social context into the debate regarding health and medical
treatment. It seeks to engage disparate groups into the debate surrounding health
promotion and medical treatment. It has a link to funding opportunities, their
journal, other sites, and publications.
Injury
Free Coalition for Kids
Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
the Coalition's site is a resource for concerns regarding injury prevention,
including programs on bicycle safety, passenger safety, safety belts and safety
street sites.
Johns
Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
The goals of the Center are: "to improve the quality of personal, family
and community life through effective communication programs to promote healthy
behavior; to strengthen the individual skills and institutional capacity of
government, private sector, and non-governmental agencies to develop and implement
health communication programs and to expand the frontiers of knowledge in health
communication through interdisciplinary research and impact evaluation."
The site contains online database services and full-text resources as well as
other links to current news releases.
Tobacco Free Sports
A collaborative efforts between the DHHS (including the National Cancer Institute
and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), the President's Council
on Physical Fitness and Sports, and the US Women's National Soccer Team, Smoke-Free
Kids and Soccer uses the women's team members to encourage adolescent girls
to "participate in soccer to maintain physical fitness and resist the pressures
to smoke." The site contains information about the program, including banners,
posters and additional links.
Tar
Wars
This program, from the American Academy of Family
Practitioners, targets 4th and 5th grade students for the tobacco-free education
program. The site provides information about the program and how to become a
participant in the program.
Youth
Tobacco
Youth Tobacco is "an online source for tobacco intervention and cessation
programs for teenagers." There are links to each kind of program, training,
research & evaluation and other links to tobacco resources.
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