To a large extent, children and young people’s health depends on resources within the family and possibilities in community networks supporting the development of healthy habits. Research shows positive effects of early efforts to promote children’s health, therefore such efforts should be further developed and reinforced.
In the life stages following childhood, effective treatment of obesity and other lifestyle related disorders, is highly complex and expensive. Considering these factors, the need for early intervention is clear. Previous strategies for health promotion among children and young people, emphasize the importance of collaboration between private, social and public partners in order to establish widespread and long term effects of health promotion.
This project, which is supported by the EU Public Health Programme, considers these issues, and proposes a concept including a training programme, which can assist municipalities to work more strategically together with civil society organizations and resource persons from these organizations, in order to reach children in their daily surroundings.
The project is implemented in communities facing major social challenges. By focusing on these specific communities, the project provides solutions having a positive effect on the overall health within children, young people and families exposed to health inequality.
The Healthy Children Project & It’s Target Groups
If you are a municipality, you can use this project to find inspiration on how to build up strategic relationships with civil society organizations in relation to health promotion activities, that takes place close to the citizens. You will also find inspiration on how to provide training and competence development towards resource persons from these organizations in order to create “win –win” situations.
If you are a civil society organization, you can use this project to find inspiration on how to develop and implement health promoting activities, which can benefit the target groups of your organizations and transform your organization into a “healthy setting”.
To a large extent, children and young people’s health depends on resources within the family and possibilities in community networks supporting the development of healthy habits. Research shows positive effects of early efforts to promote children’s health, therefore such efforts should be further developed and reinforced.
In the life stages following childhood, effective treatment of obesity and other lifestyle related disorders, is highly complex and expensive. Considering these factors, the need for early intervention is clear. Previous strategies for health promotion among children and young people, emphasize the importance of collaboration between private, social and public partners in order to establish widespread and long term effects of health promotion.
This project, which is supported by the EU Public Health Programme, considers these issues, and proposes a concept including a training programme, which can assist municipalities to work more strategically together with civil society organizations and resource persons from these organizations, in order to reach children in their daily surroundings.
The project is implemented in communities facing major social challenges. By focusing on these specific communities, the project provides solutions having a positive effect on the overall health within children, young people and families exposed to health inequality.
The Healthy Children Project & It’s Target Groups
If you are a municipality, you can use this project to find inspiration on how to build up strategic relationships with civil society organizations in relation to health promotion activities, that takes place close to the citizens. You will also find inspiration on how to provide training and competence development towards resource persons from these organizations in order to create “win –win” situations.
If you are a civil society organization, you can use this project to find inspiration on how to develop and implement health promoting activities, which can benefit the target groups of your organizations and transform your organization into a “healthy setting”.