#156
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:11:26 -0500
From: KDG Consulting <kdgconsulting@VERIZON.NET>
Subject: Re: CNHEO Working Agreement
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I think this is a very reasonable way to go - my only concern over the years has
been that the CNHEO has the will but not the means and I'd like to figure out
how we might add function to this form and galvanize this body by identifying
the financial and administrative support it so richly deserves to achieve its
mission.
kdg
Karen Denard Goldman, PhD, CHES
Co-author, Health Education Tools of the Trade: Tools for Tasks That Didn't Come
with the Job Description
Health, Physical Education and Recreation Kingsborough Community College
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William
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 4:17 PM
To: HEDIR-L@LISTSERV.SIU.EDU
Subject: CNHEO Working Agreement
Karen, Michael and others interested in greater professional cohesion:
The latest revision of the Working Agreement, which is used to guide Delegates
from each of the 10 participating organizations/components in conducting the
business of the Coalition of National Health Education
Organizations (CNHEO), was ratified January 10, 2006. Please find a copy
attached.
It seems to me that the most practical thing those interested in seeing greater
cohesion within the health education profession can do is promote
strengthening of the role and functions of CNHEO. CNHEO has a number of
committees and task forces that are working to advance our profession, including
ones on Synergy/Infrastructure, Ethics Enforcement, and Public Health
Credentialing. CNHEO collaborates with the National Commission on Health
Education Credentialing (NCHEC) and those organizations that are advancing our
profession through The Advocacy Summit, the Competency Update Project (CUP, and
the Transitional Task Force on Health Education Accreditation.
I believe some time and energy spent exploring ways to strengthen the
collaboration among the existing organizations in which health educators are
active and NCHEC and CEPH (which may accredit health education preparation
programs in the future) will benefit our profession more than trying to
establish a single organization for health educators. If you believe gaining
insurance reimbursement for health eudcation services is of high priority, lobby
CNHEO and its member organizations/components to work more vigorously to
accomplish this.
Bill Cissell
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#157
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:15:45 -0600
From: "Cissell, William" <WCissell@MAIL.TWU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Health Ed Orgs Working Together
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Karen,
I believe that CNHEO has the authority to serve as the umbrella under which
planning for a 2010 international congress on health education could be planned.
However, it will be necessary for the member organizations' boards of
directors/trustees and councils to approve such a commitment. To make this
feasible, there will need to be some leaders with the clout to rally substantial
sponsorship and advertising sales support for this congress. You may want to
talk with Larry Green, Elaine Auld, Becky Smith, and others who have provided
leadership and/or support in planning , implementing and evaluating
international congresses and conferences on health education.
It takes support of government agencies, private sponsors (particularly
publishers and health products companies), and several professional
organizations to pull off such a congress. If such a congress is to be held in
2010, the planning needs to start immediately. The leaders of the planning
efforts need to be icons in the profession, such as Larry Green, Ellen Capwell,
Marshall Kreuter, John Allegrante, Alyson Taub, Elaine Auld, Becky Smith, Dennis
Tolsma, Larry Olsen, Kathy Miner, Pat Mail, Susan Wooley, Linda Lysoby, Buzz
Pruitt, Karen Denard Goldman, Mark Kittleson , Kelli McCormack-Brown, and
others. I apologize to many friends and colleagues of great note whose names I
have failed to list. These icons have the capacity to rally publishers,
government agencies, and professional organizations to support a congress.
Bill Cissell
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#158
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:07:54 -0600
From: Nancy Parsons <NP-Parsons@WIU.EDU>
Subject: General Education Courses
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Greetings-
Our department offers three general education courses: Personal Health
Promotion, Human Sexuality, and Drug Use and Abuse. These courses are 2 semester
hours and contribute to the Human Well-Being category of the general education
curriculum. We also offer a 3 semester hour Multicultural Health course as part
of the Multicultural category of the general education curriculum. We are
contemplating increasing the 2 semester hour courses to
3 semester hours. How many of you offer general education courses and are they 2
or 3 semester hours?
Thank you.
Nancy Parsons
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Nancy Parsons, Ph.D., MPH, CHES
Professor
Department of Health Sciences
Western Illinois University
1 University Circle
Macomb, IL 61455
(309) 298-1746
(309) 298-2076 fax
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#159
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:44:15 -0500
From: KDG Consulting <kdgconsulting@VERIZON.NET>
Subject: Re: Health Ed Orgs Working Together
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Well, I'm game. Maybe Dallas is the place to get the ball rolling since many of
these people will be attending the Third National Congress on the Preparation of
Health Educators. Let's see if I can rally some support for the idea. If others
will be in Dallas for this congress and want to help see if we could start a
movement, I'd be glad to know of it.
kdg
Karen Denard Goldman, PhD, CHES
Co-author, <http://www.sophe.org/Acrobat/Tools%20Order%20Form.pdf> Health
Education Tools of the Trade: Tools for Tasks That Didn't Come with the Job
Description
Health, Physical Education and Recreation
Kingsborough Community College
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President, KDG Consulting
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