#628
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:56:42 EDT
From: "Alice R. McCarthy" <BridgeComm@AOL.COM>
Subject: Healthy Teens: Facing the Challenges of Young Lives & Healthy Teens
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I have written to Mark Kittleson, Ph.D., Professor, Health Education,
Southern Illinois about the work I am doing in health education, and provided
him with samples of my work. My book Healthy Teens: Facing the Challenges
of Young Lives is already included within his HEDIR messages. Dr. Kittleson
has graciously allowed me to provide you with information about our Healthy
Newsletters and Healthy Teens.
With the support of the Michigan Department of Community Health I began a ten
year journey publishing Healthy Newsletters for parents of children in
Pre-K-8th grade. The Healthy Newsletters resulted from statewide-research
(MI) by my company that asked parents how they would like to receive health
information. The newsletter concept won hands down.
The Newsletters have been enormously popular and successful. We have won
seven awards in the National Health Information Awards program, and recently
an Award of Distinction from Print Media. We distribute over 500,000 each
Spring and Fall.
Here are some facts about the Newsletters:
Purpose: To help families raise mentally and physically strong children.
To give strong support for parent involvement in schools.
To promote the teaching of health education.
History: Entering 10 years of publication with 10M distributed.
Now in 35 states.
Three separate newsletters for parents with children in grades
Pre-K-3; 4-5 and 6-8.
Spanish edition for parents with children in Pre-K to grade 3.
Professionalism: Carefully written, with review by 21 leading health and
education
specialists.
Reviewers include Donald B. Sweeney, M.A., Chief,
School Health Unit, MI Dept. Comm. Health.
Reviewers also select topics for inclusion.
Design: Appealing design, heavy stock, original art, 4 pages.
Well received by 500,000 - 600,000 families twice yearly.
Published March and October.
Cost: Modest for the product; 17¢ to 25¢ ea., depending on quantity
ordered.
No S/H for orders to one address.
Multiple address shipments from single order, for exact S/H costs.
Reduced prices for total order, Fall and Spring.
Our reviewers have this to say about the Healthy Newsletters:
"I applaud your efforts to develop materials to help families understand the
goals of comprehensive school health education programs. Parenting material
such as this reinforces the work being done with their children in our
schools, and it helps parents, schools, and communities work together.
-David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D.
Former Surgeon General of the United States
"I am a reviewer for the Healthy Newsletters. I give my personal
congratulations to the publisher. Accurate, comprehensive prevention
information is rarely offered in such an engaging format."
- Charles J. Barone II, M.D., F.A.A.P.
Chair of Pediatrics, Henry Ford Health Services
"The active involvement of parents in the health education program is
essential to our success with young people. Dr. McCarthy has developed an
outstanding series of newsletters that are targeted at the concerns of
families, and presented in an easy-to-use manner. These family newsletters
are an important step in demonstrating our commitment to make parents active
partners in the health education process."
- Donald B. Sweeney, Chief, School Health Section
Michigan Department of Public Health
"Education today, more than ever before, needs to be a cooperative effort
between school and home. Healthy Beginnings helps bridge that gap! The
articles touch on very timely issues concerning our young people and gives
parents and educators a communication tool. I was impressed with the content
of the articles, as well as the reader friendly format. I found the variety
of other resources, web sites, children's books...to be very helpful. I look
forward to sharing Healthy Beginnings with the families that I work with."
-Paulette Wagoner, First Grade Teacher
St. Michael Lutheran School, Ft. Myers, Florida
For the last four editions we have printed a Spanish edition of the Healthy
Newsletters. This is at the request of several customers. I would be happy
to mail samples (both English and Spanish) of our Healthy Newsletters to you.
We can also send samples to others who may be interested. We will need
addresses from you. We would do this in August. Our next edition is printed
in late September 2002.
Healthy Teens: Facing the Challenges of Young LivesHea is a one-stop,
easy-to-read, no-nonsense guide to teen development and the world of children
ages 11 to 18 in contemporary America. The book details teen physical and
mental-health issues, teen sexuality, substance abuse, sexual harassment,
crime prevention, school violence and relationship violence.
Additional chapters offer detailed information about the critical role of
family-school-community involvement in education and health education;
college and vocational preparation, including financial aid; and the role of
resiliency for teens.
Healthy Teens draws on leading experts in fields related to adolescent
behavior with a careful review by these professionals.
There is extensive resource listing of books, organizations, and web sites
for each topic and unusually thorough, annotated references for each of
twelve chapters. In addition:
o Expert review and counsel has been provided for Healthy Teens by the
following organizations: American Association for Health Education; Michigan
School Health Foundation; National Association of Secondary School
Principals; National Middle School Association and St. John Health System.
o Healthy Teens is in use in university courses in health, adolescent
development, human ecology, sociology, psychology, family relations.
o Highly recommended by the Library Journal-KLIATT, the National PTA and
national leaders in health.
o Four national awards: ForeWord; National Health Information Award;
Publishers Marketing; Writers Guide.
We will be happy to send you a pro bono copy of Healthy Teens. The book is
being used in many high schools and several universities to teach adolescent
health. It is of course, highly desirable for parenting classes and to use
as an adjunct to counseling and therapy. I will include releases and
commentary by professionals and parents with your copy. To obtain your free
copy we ask that your bookstore purchase copies for use in schools or
universities or, if you review favorably, you recommend Healthy Teens to your
library.
Questions? Please call 800-808-9314 or check our web site
www.bridge-comm.com. Thank you.
Alice R. McCarthy, PhD
President
Bridge Communications, Inc.
1450 Pilgrim Road
Birmingham, MI 48009
800-808-9314
e-mail: bridgecomm@aol.com
www.bridge-comm.com
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#629
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:38:31 -0400
From: nfb <nfb@GWU.EDU>
Subject: CHHCS News Alert: Updated Guidelines for Diagnosis,
Management of Asthma
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CHHCS News Alert - 6/11/02
Updated Guidelines for Diagnosis, Management of Asthma:
Updated guidelines issued by the National Asthma Education and
Prevention Program, an expert panel coordinated by the National Heart
Lung, and Blood Institute, recommends inhaled corticosteroids as safe,
effective, and preferred first-line therapy for children as well as
adults with persistent asthma.
Read more at:
http://www.healthinschools.org/2002/june10_alerts.asp
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#630
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 15:52:02 -0700
From: Debby McCormick <Debby.McCormick@NAU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Collaboration
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Hi Karen and interested others:
On a similar note, our entirely distance-delivered Bachelor of Applied
Science in Health Promotion at NAU targets allied health professionals who
already possess an associate degree and licensure/certification in their
disciplines. The majority of our students are respiratory therapists,
radiologic technologists, paramedics and associate degree nurses. In most
cases, students will remain in their primary field but will have an broader
"health promotion" worldview to bring to their patients and workplace. We
have all learned a great deal from each other and the program has provided
a forum for building bridges among various allied health professions and
health promotion. Complete details about our program are available on our
website at: http//www.nau.edu/hp/bas.
Debby :)
At 02:31 PM 6/8/02 -0700, you wrote:
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>This is a wonderful example of how interdependent our professions are and
>how important collaboration is. Ilise Marrazzo is a health educator who is
>now acting director of her health department's dental program in
>partnership with oral health experts in the department. Ilise, Kathy Sage,
>Kelly McCormack Brown, Claudia Vousden, Esther Colchamiro, and Alice
>Horowitz are health educators - members of SOPHE, actually - who I met an
>the national Oral Health Conference where I went as SOPHE president as part
>of a personal "crusade" to identify, acknowledge, honor, and support
>specializations that support and promote the interdependence of its own
>field and health education.
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>I had no ideas that they were so many DCHEs (pronounced "dickies") - dual
>career health educators - with oral health as their speciality! Of course
>everyone knows Alyson Taub and Audrey Gotsch started out as dental
>hygienists and went on the make health education their second but primary
>careers, but who the concept of identifying and promoting DCHEs (dickies)
>seems worth pursuing! (By the way, do you like the term "DCHEs" -
>dickies? I just made it up!)
>
>Anyway, recently, oral health and environmental health are two areas that
>have come to my attention as examples of fields in which there are many
>examples of and opportunities for the skilled health educators to lead, be
>part of a team, and/or provide training in health education strategies and
>skills to topic/content specialists. At this year's ATSDHPPHE conference,
>Sharunda Buchanan of CDC's Environmental Health Services Branch focused on
>our interdependence and is clearly willing to do even more than talk about
>it! Way to go, Sharunda! The question is, how can our profession help
>people like Sharunda and our own Libby Howze of ATSDR who believe in this
>make the ties that bind even stronger.
>
>And what about all the other professions with whom we could be working??
>
>I urge all of us to identify other areas to which we might contribute our
>expertise - if we only knew more about them. For example, three of my NYU
>MPH students: Jen Mills, Candice Davenport, and Tricia Gilles recently did
>a poster session at the midyear SOPHE meeting on Untapped Career
>Opportunities for health educators (respectively): bone marrow and stem
>cell transplants, lead poisoning prevention education research, and mental
>health.
>
>I'm sure you can think of other health areas in which health educators are
>not traditionally involved but easily could be. Maybe our ideas are worth
>sharing here and then promoting to our students? And writing or at least
>talking about at professional meetings and in journal articles as well as
>in class? What areas come to mind?
>
>Thanks for listening!
>
>kdg
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>At 02:50 PM 5/24/02 -0400, Ilise Marrazzo wrote:
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>>Coordinator for the Dental Program in Carroll County, MD- Contractual
>>position (no benefits) 4-5 days per week to coordinate the Children's
>>Dental Clinic and develop and manage the oral health
>>program. Required: Bachelors degree in nursing, social work, psychology,
>>education, counseling, or a related field and three years professional
>>experience in health services, two of which must have been professional
>>work related to the field of public health. May substitute a Masters
>>degree in a health or human service field for one year of the required
>>general experience. Experience in dental public health and grant writing
>>and management desirable. Salary $32,715 - $50,700. Mail resume ASAP to
>>Carroll County Health Department, PO Box 845, Westminster, MD 21158 ATTN:
>>Healthy Smiles
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Department of Health Promotion
Northern Arizona University
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