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Chanel De Smet; Jasmine Nation; Alejandra Yep; Alan Henriquez – American Biology Teacher, 2024
This paper presents a novel approach to teaching how vaccines work in the body, and introduces a community outreach project and activity we piloted with youth. Our Nuestra Ciencia program addresses scientific misconceptions among bilingual elementary school children in engaging and scientifically accurate ways. Utilizing analogies and…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, Logical Thinking, Misconceptions, Elementary School Students
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Khalili, Neda; Sheridan, Kimberly; Williams, Asia; Clark, Kevin; Stegman, Melanie – Computers in the Schools, 2011
Exposing American K-12 students to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) content is a national initiative. Game Design Through Mentoring and Collaboration targets students from underserved communities and uses their interest in video games as a way to introduce science, technology, engineering, and math topics. This article describes a…
Descriptors: Mentors, Summer Programs, Video Games, STEM Education
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2011
Treatment Improvement Protocols (TIPs) are developed by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), part of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Each TIP involves the development of topic-specific best-practice guidelines for the prevention and…
Descriptors: Communicable Diseases, Substance Abuse, Comorbidity, Mental Disorders
Hoffman, Carl – Appalachia, 1994
Caring Start is a mobile-clinic program that provides prenatal care, well-baby clinics, childhood immunizations, counseling services, and contraceptives to rural poor families in northwest Pennsylvania. Before the mobile clinic, many rural women (mostly teenagers) went without prenatal health care due to lack of transportation. (LP)
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Child Health, Community Health Services, Early Intervention
Smith, David R. – 1996
Two documents are presented here. One is a report of the Texas state health department concerning the immunization needs of the state's population, the extent of federal, state, and private financial support for public vaccination programs, legislation and current efforts to extend immunization to all children, and future directions for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Cost Effectiveness, Disease Control, English (Second Language)
United Nations Children's Fund, New York, NY. United States Committee. – 1987
The goal of the Universal Child Immunization Program, adopted by the World Health Organization in 1977, is to inoculate by 1990, every child in the world against measles, tetanus, whooping cough, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and polio. By 1987, nearly 80 countries had undertaken or were planning immunization programs. These diseases, combined with…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Children, Class Activities