Online Courses
Northeast
Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies
Northeast CAPT, a technical assistance provider for the Center for Substance
Abuse Protection, offers several interactive online courses that help
practitioners to explore current research, obtain practical tools, participate in structured learning activities and share their knowledge, experiences and perspectives with one another.
Current course offerings include:
• Effective Strategies: Building Blocks of Prevention
• Locating, Hiring and Managing an Evaluator
• Data Collection Methods: Getting Down to Basics
• What Now? Effective and Useful Data Presentation
• Social Marketing
• Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover: Using Feasibility
Assessment to Select Prevention Programs
General Prevention
CDC (2008)
School Health Profiles: Characteristics of Health Programs among Secondary
Schools
This report contains prevalence data from secondary school principals and
teachers from Connecticut (~250 schools) and 36 other states, including:
Health Education:
Tobacco use prevention
Pregnancy
HIV, STD Prevention
Nutrition and Dietary Behavior
Physical Activity
Policies and Programs on:
Physical Education & Physical Activity
Nutrition Services
Healthy & Safe School Environment (competitive
foods, tobacco-use prevention, violence
prevention)
Health Services
Policies Related to HIV/AIDS
Family & Community Involvement
Tobacco Prevention and Control
Connecticut Department of Public Health (2002) Connecticut Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Plan. Hartford, CT: Connecticut Department of Public Health. (PDF, 570 KB)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tobacco Control Program Guidelines and Data. http://www.thecommunityguide.org/tobacco/
Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
The Toll of Tobacco in Connecticut
http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/reports/settlements/
toll.php?StateID=CT
Center for Nicotine and Tobacco Use Research
at Yale
Setting Priorities for Connecticut Tobacco Control: Agenda for Action.
http://www.quitwithyale.org/policy/action/
Nutrition and Obesity
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Defining Overweight and Obesity. http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/defining.htm
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