POW Number: 5.I

POW Title: Healthy Peoples/Healthy Communities

Available Education Resources

Progressive Farmer Safety Day Camp Training Program and Manual

Farm Safety Day Camp Manual

Farm Family Safety & Health Workshop Leader’s Guide

Ag Couples USA: Safety and Health Training for Farm Families

Farm Safety 4 Just Kids catalog, resources & programs

Partners For A Safer Community program

Hazardous Occupations Training Program

AgrAbility for Pennsylvanians program

First-on-the-Scene for Farm Families program

FARMEDIC Farm Accident Rescue courses

Personal Protection Educational Modules

hazard simulators & demonstrations

safety displays

safety fact sheets

circulars

videos, slides, and films

Agricultural Safety and Health News bimonthly newsletter

regional Area Health Education Centers (AHEC)

PA. Department of Agriculture small grants program

National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health & Safety

PA Safe Kids Coalition

Weeds in the Garden safety and activity book for Amish children

PA Office of Vocational Rehabilitation

local hospital outreach programs

rural volunteer firefighters, EMTs, paramedics, emergency room physicians & nurses

county and state farm service and commodity organizations, agencies and associations Penn State’s Office of Pesticide Education

The Agromedicine program at the Hershey Medical Center

Penn State’s Office of Rural Health

publications by the Cancer Information Service of the National Cancer Institute

publications by the American Cancer Society

publications by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

publications by the Pennsylvania Department of Health and State Data Center

NALIC produced resources: NALIC Media Kit; Women Alive! Storytelling Education Program; The Cancer Information Resource Library Project training manual, A Learning Session: Making Decisions About Breast Health education program.

Fact sheets, public education brochures in-service and training resources from the Cornell Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factor Education Project.

The Pink Ribbon Campaign for Cancer Awareness and the Quilt Project for Breast Health. Numerous other resources (newsletters, publications and training materials from following NALIC project-level partners.)

NALIC Project-Level Partners:

Hershey Medical Center/Cancer

Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy

Penn State Geisinger Health System

Penn State Department of Entomology;

The University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute

Cancer Information Service--Roswell Park

Cancer Information Service--Fox Chase

American Cancer Society--Pennsylvania and New York

Maternal and Family Health Services

Pennsylvania; Family Health Council, Inc.

Northeast Regional Cancer Institute

Pennsylvania DOH Cancer Control Program

Pennsylvania Department of Aging

Pennsylvania Commonwealth Libraries

Pennsylvania Department of Education

New York State Cancer Control Services Program

Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition

Susan G. Komen Foundation

Pennsylvania Tobacco Prevention Network

US Too! International

Prostate Cancer Organization

Pennsylvania Tobacco Prevention Network

Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco

Coalition for a Tobacco Free Pennsylvania

Northern Appalachia Leadership Initiative on Cancer

American Cancer Society

Coalition Development Manual for Community Coalitions for Tobacco Free Youth

STAT Youth Tobacco SQUADS Facilitator’s Guide

STAT Tobacco Free Youth Activity Guide

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

National Institute on Drug Abuse

Join Together

The University of Michigan Survey Research Center

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Planned Parenthood

March of Dimes

Education Programs under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative:

Children’s Aid Society’s Family Life, Teen Outreach Program (TOP)

Sex Education Program

National Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy

Parenting and Prevention (NOAPPP)

The NARAL Foundation. Sexuality Education in America: A State-by-State Review

Science Educators

Extension Agents

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

The National Agricultural Safety Database

National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health & Safety

Pennsylvania State faculty in the College of Health and Human Development

Cooperative Extension resources, e.g., "Stress on the Farm"; "Stress, Taking Charge"; Mental Health–Mental Retardation offices

Extension learn-at-home programs such as "Visits with You and Your Baby"

Today’s Working Parent Family Time and newsletter series

Selected internet materials recommended by extension health and family living specialists; Other professionals from the co mmunity; Pen Pages; World Wide Web.

Needed Resources Not Currently Available

For 5.I.5. Building Family/Community Awareness and Capacity for Stress Control:

Media pieces to be developed by and with Agricultural Extension communication resource people.

For 5.I.4. Preventing Teen Pregnancies

Parent education resources and preteen and teen (low literacy) educational materials and curriculums adapted or used directly from other organizations, hospitals, etc.


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