Transcript Skills-based health education including life skills Making the links Unicef, New York Also go to http://www.unicef.org/programme/lifeskills/mainmenu.html.

Skills-based health education
including life skills
Making the links
Unicef, New York
Also go to http://www.unicef.org/programme/lifeskills/mainmenu.html
What is the link?
Child Friendly Schools
F.R.E.S.H.
Health Promoting Schools
Skills-based health education
Life skills
Child Friendly Schools
Quality learners: healthy, well-nourished, ready to learn, and
supported by their family and community
Quality content: curricula and materials for literacy,
numeracy, knowledge, attitudes, and skills for life
Quality teaching-learning processes: child-centred;
(life) skills-based approaches, technology
Quality learning environments: policies and practices,
facilities (classrooms, water, sanitation), services
(safety, physical and psycho-social health)
Quality outcomes: knowledge, attitudes and skills; suitable
assessment, at classroom and national levels
And gender-sensitive throughout
Child-seeking
and Child-centred
• Inclusive of children
• Effective for learning
• Healthy and protective for children
• Involved with children, families, and
communities
• Gender-sensitive
What is FRESH ?
Focusing
Resources on
Effective
School
Health
A partnership: UNESCO, UNICEF, WHO,
WORLD BANK
FRESH
Core intervention activities
• Effective health, hygiene and nutrition policies for
schools
• Sanitation and access to safe water facilities for
all schools
• Skills based health, hygiene & nutrition education
• School based health & nutrition services
Supporting activities
• Effective partnerships between teachers and health
workers
• Effective community partnerships
• Pupil participation
What is skills-based health
education ?
• part of good quality education
• not just for health issues
• not just for schools
Skills-based health education...
- has behaviour change as part of programme
objectives
- has a balance of knowledge, attitudes and skills
- uses participatory teaching and learning methods
- is based on student needs
- is gender sensitive throughout
Content
Methods
The
The
content areas
of
methods
skills-health education
for teaching &
learning
Content
Methods
What topic? What issue?
Knowledge
About what?
Attitudes
Towards what?
Learning Outcomes
Skills
(life)
For what?
Content
knowledge
attitudes
(Life) Skills
Communication skills
Values analysis & clarification skills
Decision making skills
Coping & stress management skills
Methods
for teaching & learning better
- child-centred
- interactive & participatory
- group work & discussion
- brainstorming
- role play
- educational games
- debates
- practising people skills
Who can facilitate?
Just about anybody!
- teachers
- young people (peer educators)
- community agencies
- religious groups
- others...
What settings can be used?
Just about any setting!
- school
- community
- street
- vocational
- religious
- existing groups or clubs
- others...
Expected outcomes
Output depends on input
BEHAVIOURAL
OUTCOMES
ANTECEDENTS:
Effort
required
HEALTH &
DEVELOPMENT
GOALS
% adolescents infected
with HIV (15-19; m:f)
PROTECTIVE &
RISK FACTORS
% adolescents ever
had sex (at ages 13,
15, 19)
% adolescents
with STIs
% adolescents who
know how to protect
themselves
% adolescents using
intravenous drugs
% adolescents addicted
to intravenous drugs
% adolescents able to
resist unwanted sex
School ...
Skills-based health ed
plus...
School, community
plus...
policies, health
services, community
partnerships...
School, community,
national plus...
media campaigns,
national policies, health
& social services
Evaluation
Session/classroom level - immediate
KAS outcome
Behaviour level - behavioural outcome
Epidemiological level - health outcome
Barriers
to the life skills approach
- poorly understood
- competing priorities
- poor policy support
- poor and uneven implementation
3 main ways to implement
in schools
Fast Track
1. “carrier” subject
or unit of work
Slow Track
2. separate subject
(long term option)
(short term option)
3. infusion/integration
(not recommended)
Priority Actions
Away from…
Towards….
•small scale………………. national coverage
•isolated education
programs……………….... comprehensive - FRESH
•integration……………….. Single carrier subject
•creating new materials…. better use of what is
•generic programs……….
•HIV/AIDS & life skills as
an add-on………………..
specific (health and social)
outcomes
dedicated staff, training &
support over time