We encourage you to create a profile for yourself within this wiki. It will help others to communicate with you as well as understand your contributons and comments within this wiki. See below for a suggested outline, but you can add whatever you want in this space. (After you create your profile here, please delete this introduction from this space)
We also encourage you to add the same professional profile within our International School Health Profiles wiki, which is found at: http://internationalschoolhealthprofiles.wetpaint.com/ In that wiki, we are trying to establish a professional network, similar to those being created on business networking web sites such as www.linkedin.com or on social networking web sites such as facebook.
Notes:
The profile section within this wiki has other tools for you to use in making contact with others. You can send email within the wiki or from the wiki to other people. (You can also control the email that you receive from the wiki by making changes within your profile.)
You can invite other colleagues to be a “friend”. We suggest that you use that tool sparingly, perhaps when you are inviting selected others to join you on a specific project.
Please send us suggestions on how this template can be improved so that you can present information about your work in school health promotion more effectively and efficiently. Please send those ideas to dmccall@cash-aces.ca Now, go to the section below, enter the information and then delete this introduction.
Questions to Guide You in Creating a Professional Profile
Name: Jacques Brodeur
Contact Information: (Organizational mailing address and work email address are suggested.)
Current Projects/ Areas of Interest: (Please list them briefly here. Please see our list of Tags and Topics in School Health Promotion found on the wikis. Don’t forget to “tag” your profile so that others can find you by searching within the wiki)
Professional Education and Training (Please list degrees, certificates and specialized training)
Accomplishments (Please list successful projects, programs and other activities - with web links to sources if possible)
Affiliations (Please list any organizations, institutions, colleagues that would be of interest to others)
Invitations to Others (Please list any projects, studies or professional activities that you would like others to contact you about)
Mobilization of parents and children to prevent obesity is a major challenge for society. Since the creation of the SMART program by «Stanford Health Promotion Resource Center» in 1998, various forms of the program have given positive results in Michigan, Quebec, Ontario, France. Students attending schools experiencing the SMART program were basically (1) informed of documented impacts of screen exposure and (2) offered to replace screen time exposure with other preferred activities. To build momentum and gain support from parents and communities, organizing committees were formed to MOTIVATE students and EMPOWER them to win a new game: surviving 10 days with zero hours of screen exposure. The zero screen exposure period was followed by 7 hours/week screen consumption diet. Major benefits from the SMART program (U.S.) and the 10 Day Screen Free Challenge (Canadian version of SMART) include: decrease of BMI, triceps skinfold thickness, waist circumference, and waist-to-hip ratio, children spending more time with parents, better communication within family, better school work, better attention in class, better sleep, more time for sport and physical activity, more time for reading, less disputes at home & at school, more time with friends, better mood of students in class and at recess, less tobacco & alcohol consumption, etc. Presentation will allow participants to learn how to organize their communities & schools, how to get material to train teachers, children, teens and parents.
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The use of violence by big media has nothing to do with freedom of expression. It is the result of de facto censorship by the industry and it is used to attract viewers no matter the damages to their brains. When being used by advertisers, producers and broadcasters of entertainment products for children and teens, it is among the most sophisticated and cruel form of child abuse. Pokemons, Terminators, Doom, Quake, Basketball Diaries, Grand Theft Auto, Howard Stern, South Park, all are cultural products damaging children and teens across the continent, along with Eminem, Fifty Cents and the music industry circulating hate propaganda against women. TV and videogames have become the most child abusive babysitters in North America. The SMART Program and the 10 Day Screen-Free Challenge have proven to be among the most efficient ways to help parents, students and teachers come together and oppose the media culture of violence, cruelty and war. Come find out more about these media education-related violence prevention programs !
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