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Session: Health Promotion Strategies in Young Populations
3378.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 4:30 PM-5:30 PM
Poster
Health Promotion Strategies in Young Populations
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1. Identify three environmental strategies that support a healthy school enviroment. 2. Identify new strategies for developing eduational tools for youth. 3. Identify common challenges and barriers to the implementation of school based communication activities.
Moderator(s):Jennifer Cremeens, MS
Board 1Image-based healthy lifestyle interventions for adolescents
Chudley (Chad) Werch, PhD
Board 2Concurrent sun-safety factors among middle school children: A structural equation modeling approach
Valentina A. Andreeva, Kim D. Reynolds, PhD, David B. Buller, PhD, Chih-Ping Chou, PhD, Amy L. Yaroch, PhD
Board 3Heads Up! Concussion Tool kit for High School Athletic Coaches: An innovative approach towards increasing the prevention and management of concussion
Jane Mitchko, MEd, Michele Huitric, MPH, Kelly Sarmiento, MPH, Richard Sawyer, PhD, Marcia Pruzan
Board 4Assets and Sexual Activity: Potential Differences between Males and Females
Sara Vesely, PhD, Trisha Mueller, MPH, Roy Oman, PhD, Cheryl Aspy, PhD, Eleni Tolma, PhD
Board 5Take Time! school physical activity project
Karen O'Rourke, MPH, Michele Polacsek, PhD, MHS, Amy Root, MPH
Board 6Teen Fitness Champions: A Community and School Based Collaborative To Address Adolescent Obesity
Nancy Jewell, MPA, Nancy Silvers-Rogers, Calvin Roberson, MHA, MPH
Board 7Developing effective education tools for youth: A youth development approach to creating media through improvisation *
Michele Perlman, MPH
Board 8Innocence lost: Providing a culturally appropriate after school program for disadvantaged youth
Neal G. Malik, MPH, Jemma J. Naté, MPH, Linda T. Nguyen, MPH, Aileen C. Tareg, MPH, Amandeep Kalsi, MPH, Susanne Montgomery, PhD, MPH, MS, Patti Herring, PhD, RN
Board 9Project Healthy Schools: A school based health education program to prevent childhood obesity *
Timothy B. Cotts, MD, Caren S. Goldberg, MD, Bruce Rogers, LaVaughn Palma -Davis, MA, Jean E. DuRussel-Weston, RN MPH, Susan Aaronson, RD, Kim A. Eagle, MD
Board 10Using train-the-trainer trainings to support capacity-building of TLC- Together Learning Choices (formerly Teens Linked to Care)
Shaniece R. Criss, MPH, Tanya Telfair Sharpe, PhD, MS, Caroline J. Bailey, MA, MPH
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by:Food and Nutrition; School Health Education and Services

The 134th Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 4-8, 2006) of APHA