How to involve parents and community
Written by HEPCOMThe active involvement of parents and community is essential to the health promoting school. This tool gives examples of how to involve different target groups.
Involving visitors
Written by HEPCOMWhen planning the curriculum, it can be very useful to elicit the help of specialists - use people from the outside as "visitors" in the classrome in the health education.
What is health?
Written by HEPCOMThis tool points out activities on discussing "What is health?", e.g. a quiz. It also outlines the key differences in definitions of health.
A brainstorming tool to find out how your school is doing to be a health promoting school and what you can do better. What factors are influential in shaping how the health promoting school is taken forward in the daily work?
Self-Evaluation Dynamic Model
Written by HEPCOMThis reflection model describes five steps in a self-evaluation process. It's a dynamic model that allows participants to learn from their experience and accordingly adjust plans and activities as they go along.
Cross-cultural collaboration
Written by HEPCOMIn cross-cultural collaboration, children are encouraged to think both locally and globally. This tool gives examples of how schools in different countries can use one another in different stages of a health project. And it gives tips and advices to ensure effective web-based communication between pupils.
Body movement
Written by HEPCOMThis model shows how a broad perspective on physical activity allows for reflection and discussion with children about different perspectives concerning physical activities in many areas of everyday life.
Pupils brainstorming about food
Written by HEPCOMAn overview of the brainstorming process with the example of the subject: food and nutrition.
The four dimensions of food
Written by HEPCOMThis model shows how a more complex approach to food and nutrition can be used to increase children's participation.
The Concept of Health
Written by HEPCOMThis tool shows how different ways of defining health gives different possibilities for health a promotion policy and for healthy promotion activities for children. The tool is illustrated with children's examples.
Story/Dialogue Workshop
Written by HEPCOMThis empowerment evaluation methode can be used with children or adults and has two aims: (1) To evaluate health promoting activities and projects and through this create more generalized knowledge about practice; (2) To increase empowerment among the participants as a part of the process.
Table of Content for a Policy Analysis
Written by HEPCOMThis tool helps to structure a policy analysis, focusing on municipal activities within overweight and obesity within children, young people and their families.
The good practice example shows the use of the tool in a study of health policy and practice in Tønder municipality (Denmark).
In Depth Interview Guide
Written by HEPCOMThis in-depth interview guide can be used when you have carried through your desk research and need more in depth information from key personnel. Themes: Health, health policy, strategy, Cooperative relations, offers and activities, SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, treats.
This material about Digital Storytelling is a short guide for teachers who plan to let children create movies in a health context. The guide presents ethical considerations and technical guidlines to ensure that the process is as accessible as possible, both in terms of cost and ease of use.
A Methodology for Digital Storytelling
Written by HEPCOMThis guide is written for teachers or health professionals and provides an overview of the methodology for Digital Storytelling and the ingredients required to create successful digital storytelling projects.
This document describes the frame for a specific training programme for health ambassadors and introduces the overall idea and philosophy with the training in order to ensure acting on the basis of human engagement, open-minded understanding of health and an empowering attitude.
The empty template can be used for creating a specific training programme for health ambassadors: Planning of training themes and learning activities.
Volunteeer & Mentor Action Plan Template
Written by HEPCOMThis template is used for planning of health promoting activities according to different stages of implementation.
Handbook for Volunteers
Written by HEPCOMThis handbook can be used when you are training volunteers in a health project.
Training competence and needs analysis
Written by HEPCOMThis tool gives an overview of the competences that are recommended for a volunteer to act as a local health ambassador.
Process Mapping Tool
Written by HEPCOMThe process mapping tool helps a community to document and hold track of activities in a development and change process related to planning and implementation of activities.