Target group
Teachers, Health workers, Parents, Administrators, Local authorities.

Objectives

• Provide knowledge and skills on the development of health promoting and safe schools.
• Identify groups at risk.
• Initiate best practices for safety at school.

Duration

3 days

Contents

• Scope of health and safety promoting schools development
• Studies in Planning, implementation, evaluation strategies and practices
• Theories and concepts, risk and protective factors
• Governance procedures and best practices
• Evaluation tools, policies, procedures and practices of safe schools

Target group

Teachers, Health workers, Parents, Administrators.

Objectives

• To introduce basic concepts of home safety.
• To identify groups at risk by age and sex.
• To acquire knowledge and understanding of the abilities of children depending on their age and development.
• Learn how to reduce the risk of serious accident to a child adolescent and elderly person.

Duration
3 days

Contents

• Epidemiology of home accidents and injuries
• Population at risk
• Child development
• Practical interventions
• Reference groups

Target group
Administrators, Security Officers, opinion leaders, Women and youth groups, residents associations, insurers, health workers.

Objectives

• To identify risky situations at community level.
• To initiate prevention and control activities.
• To promote partnerships and networks.
• To evaluate interventions in place.

 

Duration

3 days Contents

• Epidemiology of accidents and injuries at community level
• Accident injury, prevention and control
• Community policing activities
• Community intervention strategies
• Community evaluation tools, procedures and practices
• Reference groups and networking

Target group

Doctors, Nurses, Teachers, Police Officers, Probation Officer, Counsellors, Parents, Teachers.

Objective

To acquaint participants with knowledge and skills to prevent, control and manage child abuse cases.

Duration
2 days

Contents

• Definitions and classifications
• The magnitude of the problem
• Risk factors
• Social and cultural factors
• Prevention of child abuse
• Legal issues
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Data collection

Target group
Doctors, Nurses, Counsellors, Police, Chaplains, Pastors, Probation Officers

Objective
To acquaint participants with knowledge and skills on how to prevent, control and manage rape and sexual assault victims.

Duration
2 days

Contents

• Definitions
• Types of sexual assault
• Magnitude of the problem
• Risk factors
• Social cultural factors
• Legal aspects
• Rape and sexual assault prevention programmes
• Management of rape and sexual
• Data collection assault
• HIV/AIDS/Substance Abuse

Target group
Health workers (Doctors, Nurses), Probation Officers, Police Officers, Teachers, Parents, Religious Leaders, Counselors.

Objective
To acquaint participants with knowledge and skills to prevent, control and manage domestic violence.

Duration
2 days

Contents

• Definitions and classification
• Magnitude of the problem
• Risk factors
• Social cultural factors
• Prevention of domestic violence
• Civil and Criminal justice systems
• HIV/AIDS/Substance Abuse

Target group

Managers (Hotel), Games, Engineers, Supervisors, Teachers, Health care workers.

Objective

To acquaint participants with importance of maintenance of recreational safety (hiking, football, surfing, athletics, swimming, tennis, netball, volleyball, boxing, karate, judo, Tae Kwondo etc.

Duration
2 days

Contents

• The magnitude of the problem
• Risk groups and injury patterns
• Maintenance practices
• Comprehensive sports injury control programmes
• Data collection
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Investment policy and maintenance

Ambulance services, Managers, Health care givers, Traffic Police Officers

Objective
To acquaint participants with knowledge and skills on emergency medical services systems.

Duration
1 day

Contents

• Definitions and classification
• Primary and Secondary prevention
• Tertiary prevention
• Magnitude and scope of services
• Trauma care and emergency medical services
• Prehospital care
• Rehabilitation process
• Administration of trauma care services
• Barriers to the growth of trauma care systems
• Opportunities for collaboration

Parents, teachers, chaplains, pastors, health workers, counsellors, administration (magistrates, police, chiefs) managers, media practitioners, lawyers.

Objectives
To acquaint participants with knowledge skills pertaining to all aspects of alcohol and substance abuse.

Duration
1 or 2 Days

Contents

• Substance Abuse: historical and current problem
• Definition of terms: substance, substance abuse, drug abuse, tolerance, habituation, addiction, chemical dependence
• The scope of the problem
• Definition of alcoholism, theories of etiology (psychological, physiological, socio-cultural)
• Physical effects (respiratory system, nervous system, reproductive system, haematological, cardiac and gastrointestinal)
• Assessment of alcoholism, alcohol withdrawal syndrome
• Substance Abuse: Scope of problem, theories of causation
• Different types of drugs (Narcotics, barbiturates, sedatives, minor tranquillisers, inhalants, stimulants, hallucinogens)
• Assessment / Evaluation
• Intervention goals

Target group

NGO's, Counseling Centers, Health care givers, Human Resource Managers, Educational Institutions and others.

Objective
To create awareness among the participants of the grave dangers posed by HIV/AIDS infections to individuals, families and the general community.

Duration
3 days

Contents

• HIV the virus and AIDS the disease
• HIV virus and its natural history
• Risk of HIV transmission
• Blood borne HIV transmission
• HIV infections related to sexual behaviour/drug abuse
• Living positively with AIDS
• Implications of HIV/AIDS to

• An individual
• The family
• The company, organisation and community

• Psychosocial/counselling support
• VCT and diagnostic counselling and testing
• Comprehensive care
• Nutrition + HIV/AIDS counselling
• Discordant couples
• Antiretroviral therapy
• Home based care and support
• Safer sex, alcohol, drug and condom use

Target group
Managers, Security forces, health workers, fleet drivers, teachers, administrators, civil servants, local authorities

Objectives

• To identify stressful aspects of life style
• To reduce frequency of the stress response
• To avoid stressors when possible
• To determine ways to enjoy selected stressors
• Manage the stress by practicing selected techniques
• Maintain lifestyle and emotional as well as physical health practices

Duration
1 day

Contents

• Definition of stress

• Description of various types of stressors
• Pyschophysiological concept and the effect of the emotional status on physiological status and disease process
• Physiological, mental, emotional and social manifestations of the stress response
• Diagnosis and management of stress
• Post-traumatic stress disorder and other stress disorders to the stress response
• Various coping strategies
• Evaluation of the effectives of emotional care using criteria based on established goals

Target group
Health workers, Planners, Students, Engineers, Architects, Administrators, security officers, managers.

Objectives

• Be aware of the theoretical and methodological issues in safety promotion research.
• Be able to formulate their study questions in the field.
• Be able to elaborate study designs appropriate to these questions and to adopt relevant analytical strategies.

 

Duration
10 days

Contents

• Injury causation, injury prevention and safety promotion
• Definitions and related analytical frameworks
• Injury as a public health problem
• Epidemiological knowledge and research issues
• Injury surveillance (strategies and methods)
• Strategy for intervention and for promotion
• Intentional injuries Analysis and prevention
• Economic aspects of injury prevention and control measures and measurements
• Evaluative research major questions and possible methods
• Social epidemiology and inequality in injury risk.
• Safety promotion research questions ahead and ethical issues