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The content of this wiki is organized in this structure:
(Note: Each of the Ten Points listed below has several sub-pages lsiting key concepts and good/promising practices)

Introduction Contents of this Wiki Ten Key Points
(Common to School-Home-Community Approaches to Human Development)		 Additional Information
About this wiki Definition of Terms 1. Serve whole child over life course
1.1 Address needs of whole child
1.2 Prevent problems while building assets
1.3 Respect/develop values & principles
1.4 Expect change over the life course
1.5 Truly understand nature of problems
1.6 Understand influence of school
 About the International School Health Network
Guidelines for Adding to this Wiki
2. Serve all children
2.1 Support childrem more vulnerable to specific problems
2.2 Support disadvantaged/ addresss social determinants
 About the Canadian Association for School Health
Using Tags to identify pages in this wiki
3. Understand the local context
3.1 Understand school-family-community connections
3.2 Identify problems, strengths and weaknesses derived from different local community contexts
 Other Wikis on Health/ Human Development
Ten Key Points Common to School-Community Strategies
4. Strive towards a Comprehensive Approach
4.1 Build for long-term while responding to short-term and specific
4.2 Address clusters of related problems and conditions
4.3 Make changes at multiple levels
One-page Summary and Diagrams
5. Use multiple (policy, instruction, services, social & physical environment), evidence-based interventions
5.1 Select evidence-based programs
5.2 Deliver multiple programs across several domains:
a) Policy
b) Instruction/education
c) Health, social, other services
d) Social support/environment
e) Physical environment/practical resources


6. Strategic, evidence-based implementation
6.1 Identify local drivers, mechanisms
6.2 Use evidence-based implementation
a) Select diffusion model
b) Require parent involvement
c) Require student engagement
d) Require community involvement
e) Require staff involvement
f) Require expert review
g) Require formal evaluation, reporting


7. Coordinate multiple programs, policies, services, practices
7.1 Develop shared vision, select a coordinated delivery model (eg Healthy school, safe school etc)
7.2 Seek to involve whole school
7.3 Coordinate school-agency-community-home programs and activities


8. Seek congruence with education mandate, constraints
8.1 Seek congruence, anticipate/reduce conflicts with school mandate


9. Build capacity
9.1 Build different types of capacities (policy, coordination, knowledge, monitoring etc)
9.2 Build capacityies at all levels (government, agency, school, professional, community)


10. Address system, organizational, professional characteristics
10.1 Understand the impact of openess
10.2 Understand decision-making in loosely-coupled systems
10.3 Understand the features of professional bureacracies
10.4 Know about working across multiple systems




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