Announcements

Deadline August 27, 2010

Pre-Conference Workshops: September 29, 2010
Main Conference: September 30, October 1, 2010
Vancouver, BC

If you work in the field of aging services, public health, planning, architecture, engineering, recreation, transportation, or health care, and want to become more effective in planning and implementing environmental and policy change, you are invited to participate in an interactive online learning initiative on Environmental and Policy Change for Healthy Aging.

Taking Action on the Built Environment: Building Healthy Public Policy... Early-Bird Registration Extended until August 27th!

Regular physical activity is a vital cornerstone in leading a healthy life, for children and adults. This article addresses the importance of helping all children to achieve physical literacy at a young age and provides an update on steps being taken in Alberta by Canadian Sport for Life (CS4L) and other key stakeholders to better promote physical literacy to all Albertans.

The article is available on the Alberta Centre for Active Living website: http://www.centre4activeliving.ca/publications/wellspring/2010/aug-liter...

The Best Start Resource Centre is pleased to announce the release of a manual for service providers titled: “Growing Up in a New Land – Strategies for Working with Newcomer Families”. This manual contains information on the following: immigration patterns, cultural practices, social development, language development, healthy living and family parenting strategies. Each section offers background information, a list of strategies, as well as suggested resources, programs and activities.

Health Nexus (formerly OPC) is Ontario's leading bilingual health promotion organization.

What do you think of the Health Nexus website: http://www.healthnexus.ca?

Please take a few minutes to help us improve the Health Nexus website by completing a short 6 question survey. Your feedback is very important to us.

Please go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SY6M3DV to take the survey, or check out our website at http://www.healthnexus.ca/index_eng.php and then on the home page, link through to the survey.

iCANwalk is a multi-partner public engagement campaign to promote walking and community walkability across Ontario. The project aims to foster a culture for walking by providing community partners with tools and resources that can be used in combination with new or on-going environmental projects, community sustainability planning, physical activity strategies, community engagement initiatives, and other active transportation projects and events. Two key resources, the iCANwalk Pledge and the Walkability Checklist are now accessible through the website and ready for use.

The Healthy Communities Consortium invites new subscribers to join its Partnership-Links listserv. Partnership-Links provides a mechanism for information dissemination and sharing among those working within the Healthy Communities Partnership Stream and the six priority areas of the Ministry of Health Promotion’s Healthy Communities Framework: physical activity, sport and recreation; injury prevention; healthy eating; tobacco use/exposure; substance and alcohol misuse; and mental health.

This Walkolution E-newsletter provides updates on our work with children and youth (Active & Safe Routes to School) and our walkable communities projects.

Highlights

Expand your health promotion toolkit for any health promotion issue: these introductory-level webinars cover the basics of THCU's recommended step models.

In each of our 75 minute lecture-style webinars,