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HEALTH PROMOTION DIVISION
Family Health Department
Child Repro Sexual Health
(Manager, Sue Kocela)
February public/professional education activities include the following:
- Three 2-hour workshops:
- Helping Infants & Children Sleep: February 6, Windsor
- Understanding Toddler Behaviour: February 14, Windsor
- Precious Cargo – What You need to Know About Car Seat Safety: Windsor
- Small workshops at Ontario Early Years Centres (city & county)
- Three Prenatal series: 2 Windsor, 1 Leamington
- Weekly classes at Building Blocks For Better Babies (BBBB) in four locations (2 city & 2 county)
- Three weekly Just For Moms & Babies Series, Windsor
- Weekly breastfeeding clinic at Windsor WECHU
Telehealth Workshop
The team is hosting a workshop by Clinidata for Health Unit staff on February 16 to provide accurate information about the services offered by Telehealth Ontario.
What Women Want to Know: A Resource For Prenatal Educators
The resource was launched on January 29 with a workshop for prenatal educators throughout Windsor & Essex County. Fifty-six people attended and received resources, but those unable to attend the workshop will receive copies by mail in February. The document (also known as the Consensus Document) focuses on topics that prenatal women want to know (as indicated by survey responses) to help them prepare for childbirth and life after their baby arrives. The purpose of the document, developed in collaboration with community partners, is to promote a general agreement or consensus among prenatal educators in Windsor-Essex County on prenatal course content. Prenatal resources will be available to all on the Health Unit website and updated regularly. This project was implemented as part of the Early Child Development, PPMD initiative.
Healthy Baby/Healthy Children Program
(Managers, Elizabeth Kinnaird-Iler and Shirley Davies)
Over the course of several months, HBHC has highlighted the Physician Outreach Project. The pilot phase of this initiative is now complete; attached is an Executive Summary of the evaluation. HBHC is pleased with the results of the evaluation; the feedback will be of assistance as we move forward to expand the involvement of additional physicians.
Comprehensive School Health Department
(Manager, Vacant)
Family Violence Prevention Project
Magazine inserts, included in your board package, went out in the fall edition of the Windsor Parent Magazine. The reach for Windsor Parent Magazine is approximately 35,000. With some
surplus ECD funding, we arranged for a reprint of an additional 5,000. These will be distributed to our community partners on this project as well as police for use at their agencies with staff orientation and general distribution to the public. There will be one more presentation to students and professors at St. Clair College during the winter session.
March is Nutrition Month
Resources have been developed for grade 5 students, their parents, and teachers. The theme "3 out of 4 - that's the score" serves to encourage children to eat a variety of foods from at least three of the four food groups at every meal. Students who participate in Nutrition Month activities have a chance to win a bicycle and helmet or a gift certificate for sports/active living equipment. The initiative also includes an evaluative component for teachers to provide feedback.
Student Sexual Health Workshops
- Four Adolescent Sexual Health Programs (high school) weeklong programs have been booked (Forster concluded on January 23rd).
- Workshops will be facilitated by a PHN from the health unit, a Teen Health Centre health promoter, an AIDS Committee of Windsor health promoter, and a Sexual Assault Crisis Centre social worker.
Sexual Health Workshops and Train the Trainer Sessions for the Intellectually Impaired
- Teachers from Walkerville, Massey, Western, and Herman, have requested us to run programs for intellectually challenged adolescents.
- Meetings with the teachers to assess their needs, facilitate train the trainer sessions, and provide support and resources to help them educate and empower this group that is often vulnerable because of their disability have been held.
- Two HU nurses will work with the teachers until June on four different topics and the teachers will reinforce and build on each message in between sessions.
Youth & Steroids Project
The educational materials for secondary schools will be promoted in April. Posters, a Coaches’ teaching booklet, student wallet cards, and parent pamphlet are being developed for schools to order upon request.
“Strengthening Families for the Future”
This is a prevention program for families of children between the ages of 7 and 11 who may be at risk for substance abuse. Facilitator training will be done in February 15, and a number of community agencies will attend along with facilitators for the upcoming sessions. CEASE will function as the community coalition for implementation. A Train the Trainer will be offered at a later date for ongoing sustainability.
Youth Action Alliance
On January 22, eight of our Youth Action Alliance peer leaders went to the intersection of Ouellette and University Avenues, just outside of A-Channel, for our first initiative, “Unmasking the tobacco industry”. We wore white masks and held signs with information on health effects of tobacco and tobacco industry tactics. Nearly sixty people approached us. People in cars showed their support by honking their horns. A-channel interviewed us, and we were mentioned by several radio stations. However, not as many youths as we would have liked came out. Overall, it was a successful event and we got our message out. (Submitted by Sui Liang, Peer Leader)
Limited Space Activities
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit and Health Action in partnership with the Public and Catholic School Boards are excited to provide school communities with a free copy of the Limited Space Activities resource. The Limited Space Activities booklets were originally launched in the fall 2005 with the Mamba Challenge initiative. It is an excellent resource that can assist teachers to increase the physical activity levels of their students in small places, and meet the mandatory 20 minutes of Daily Physical Activity (DPA) requirements. The Public and Catholic School Boards will deliver the Limited Space Activities to schools this semester 2007.
Information Resources Department
(Manager, Vacant)
Website Activity
There were 13,683 unique visitors to the Health Unit website during last part of December and early January for a total number of visits: 19,192. The WECHU website main page layout design is complete and a meeting between the Web Editorial Committee and HUMAT is scheduled for March 1 to make final decisions. We have received some pro bono thirty-second radio ads to promote our services and the web site.
Evaluation and analysis projects
- RRFSS Tobacco Enforcement Data Dictionary
- RRFSS Health Info DD Review
- RRFSS Outline of Introductory Analysis Document
- Physician Outreach Evaluation
- Healthy Weights E-learning Literature Search
- Workplace Employee Survey
- RRFSS Family Abuse Report
- YTA In-service on Evaluation
- Sun Safety Data Analysis
- Steroid Use Analysis
Team projects
- Hand washing resources and campaign
- Tobacco
- Just for Dads booklet
- Effects of Woman Abuse on Children pamphlet
- Fact Sheets
- Food handling cards
- PPMD document
- HBHC magnet
- Let's Talk Sex pamphlet
- HBHC certificate
- Walking booklets
- FYB flyer
- Alcohol and Chronic Disease booklet
- Low Birth Weight Initiative poster and magnets
- Shade booklet
- YAA resources
- Steroid campaign
- HBHC Low Literacy resource
- Driven to Quit 2007
- YAA Speaking With the Media presentation
- Nutrition Month 2007
- TOTS updates
- Feeding Your Baby translations
Nurse Practitioner Program
We hope to be able to share the provincial evaluation of the ten NP projects across the province by next month’s board meeting.
In General
I am preceptoring two masters' students from the U of W Faculty of Nursing this semester. They will be working on quality improvement projects around recruitment of new staff and undergrad student preceptors. Dayna Kearns and Sheila Boamah will be attending the March Board meeting.
I have recently been appointed by OPHA to sit on the alPHa Board of Directors as the OPHA rep and look forward to also representing Windsor-Essex in that venue. Being able to observe the provincial public health perspective is always a good learning opportunity that will be a benefit for our agency.
Respectfully submitted,
Liz Haugh, Director