This training session explores how youth can affect real change by getting their voices heard by the right people. Participants will learn how advocacy can influence public policy as well as the basics of how to advocate in new and creative ways.
This training will explore the concepts and terms health education, health promotion, denormalization, social marketing, and branding. This training will look at examples of effective health promotion campaigns and introduce basic steps to creating effective campaigns in participants’ communities.
In this training, participants learn about the main ingredients & forms of creative advocacy. This is done by investigating case studies that focus on a range of social issues such as race, disability, violence & hunger. Through creative expression exercises, participants explore the benefits of using creative advocacy in their groups.
This training explores what chronic disease is and different ways to prevent it. Participants will learn the keys to improving the health of a community by impacting people’s knowledge, skills and environment through education and advocacy.
This training will examine the food industry and other industries that both influence health and market to children and youth. Participants will learn strategies for targeting these industries.
This training explores the three levels of government in Canada (municipal, provincial, federal), how public policy is developed and how youth can influence, change or create public policy decisions.
Participants will explore how to work with the media as a component of advocacy and health promotion. They will learn how to develop press releases and will also learn basic interviewing skills.
This training will offer young people the opportunity to examine and reflect on the impact of both the tobacco industry and the film industry in influencing young people to smoke.
This training will introduce various methods of social media and work with participants to develop effective strategies for using social media tools in health promotion work.
This training equips participants with the knowledge to prevent commercial tobacco use through health promotion, advocacy, and tobacco industry denormalization.
Obesity
In 2002 Canada spent $2 billion treating illnesses attributable to obesity.
(Heart and Stroke Foundation, 2010)
