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What's new:

Welcome to the Voices and Choices web site, a dynamic new site that can help members of your school community work together to improve student and school health and enhance learning.

Voices and Choices: Planning for School Health is a practical, do-it-yourself, on-line, strategic planning tool for school communities in Canada. It engages young people in identifying their health- and school-related needs and in developing and implementing strategies to address these needs. It includes:

• a Guide to Implementation outlining a seven-stage planning process;
• a quantitative Student Needs Assessment Questionnaire; and
• a School Health Profile by which students’ responses to the questionnaire are reported back to the school community.

Voices and Choices can help your school community foster healthier students in a safe, caring and effective learning environment; and is now available to secondary schools in Canada from grade 9 (Secondary 3 in Quebec) to graduation (CEGEP 2 in Quebec). Voices and Choices was developed in collaboration with the Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (CAHPERD) and the Canadian Association for School Health (CASH).

All of the materials that your school community will need to get started are available on this web site.

The process has been automated using web-based technology to reduce your costs and the time that it takes for you to receive your School Health Profile report. If you have questions or require further information about the Voices and Choices: Planning for School Health initiative, please contact the Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (CAHPERD). If you experience technical difficulties with the Voices and Choices web site, please contact Health Canada’s Division of Childhood and Adolescence. Thank you.