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Family resource programs also grew out of early maternal and child health programs such as the Victorian Order of Nurses. The parent education program Nobody's Perfect was established by Health Canada in 1987 and has become the model for many programs that followed.
The ability to read and understand medication instructions is a form of health literacy. Health literacy encompasses a wide range of skills, and competencies that people develop over their lifetimes to seek out, comprehend, evaluate, and use health information and concepts to make informed choices, reduce health risks, and increase quality of life.
The roots of family literacy as an educational method come from the belief that “the parent is the child's first teacher.” [1] Studies have demonstrated that adults who have a higher level of education tend to not only become productive citizens with enhanced social and economic capacity in society, [2] but their children are also more likely to be successful in school. [3]
Health education is a profession of educating people about health. [1] Areas within this profession encompass environmental health, physical health, social health, emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health, as well as sexual and reproductive health education.
The Even Start Program is a federally funded program in the United States that gives families access to training and support to create a literate home environment and enhance the academic achievement of their children. The program was first authorized in 1988, and administration was moved to individual states in 1992. [1] The program aims to:
The organization seeks to alter generational poverty by uniting parents and their children as learners together. [3] Since 1989, over a million families have been impacted by the NCFL's work. [4] NCFL pioneers family literacy models, and approaches to help improve the lives of the nation's at-risk children and families through greater literacy. [3]
Triple P, or the "Positive Parenting Program", was created by Professor Matthew R. Sanders and colleagues, in 2001 at the University of Queensland in Australia and evolved from a small “home-based, individually administered training program for parents of disruptive preschool children” into a comprehensive preventive intervention program (p. 506). [1]
Mental health literacy has also found its uses in the realm of sports. Sports social workers are promoting mental health literacy of athletes through various means. Social workers are engaging in research, education, policy development, advocating for individuals, organizing communities, and through direct practice. [52] Inclusion with Health ...