Dear Tricia,
At the Waterloo Region Community Health Department we have an inititative called Teen Esteem, an eight week group session for Gr 6-8 girls, lead by community volunteer women which has been extremely popular in local schools.  The curriculum deals with self esteem, and expanding the sense of the possible with respect to career and education opportunities.  We also have developed a 16 week curriculum for high risk grade 7 girls that explores issues of healthy sexual choices, gender and power issues in relationships and developing a healthy body image with respect to sexuality.  Contact me for futher information.

(By the way I went to highschool in Clinton!)

Grace Ross
Manager, Violence Prevention/Mental Health Promotion program
Waterloo Region Community Health Department
519-883-2258
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At 11:37 AM 1/15/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi!  We are supporting our local school board to develop a health curriculum
>that will meet the new education requirements.  We are interested in knowing
>of any existing health curriculums that have been developed since the new
>elementary education requirements have come out.  Of particular interest are
>ones that will help to meet the education criteria about substance abuse,
>self esteem and body image.  Thanks in advance for your help!
>Tricia
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>Tricia Wilkerson, Health Promoter
>Huron County Health Unit
>R.R. #5 Clinton, ON  N0M 1L0
>519-482-3416
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