Health Education & Substance Abuse Prevention
PREL’s health education services can improve student learning by enhancing the preparation and continuing education of teachers, administrators, and other professionals in health education. The courses and workshops offer practical tools, align with health content standards, and are taught by experienced staff.
Health Education Needs Assessment Services
PREL has worked with Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs), administrators, community members, and others in the Pacific on studies to identify and analyze health-related needs and assets. For example, in 2004, PREL conducted a study in collaboration with the University of Hawai‘i, Hilo (UHH), to explore the need for pharmacy training programs in the Pacific outside Hawai‘i. This assisted the UHH in their plans to develop a new graduate School of Pharmacy at the Hilo campus.
Workshops
Building Health Literacy with the U.S. National Library of Medicine Resources Workshop
Audience: Health Care Providers, Teachers, Students, Librarians, Researchers
Explore features of MedlinePlus and PubMed from the National Library of Medicine website and other free consumer health information. Demonstrate and learn how to conduct basic searches to access reliable full-text medical information.
Fostering Resiliency: Understanding Protective and Risk Factors
Audience: Teachers, Administrators, School Support Personnel, Counselors, Certified Staff, Teacher Aids, Parents
Students growing up in challenging environments can be protected from making poor choices if protective factors, like a safe and caring adult, are present. This training will cover resiliency and discuss how adults can enhance protective factors among youth while reducing risk factors that increase the likelihood of students making poor choices.
Bullying and Harassment
Audience: Teachers, Administrators, School Support Personnel, Counselors, Certified Staff, Teacher Aids, Parents
Bullying is often considered a ritual that all children experience as a part of growing up. However, it doesn't have to be that way. This workshop will cover the roles played in bullying situations, what people in each role can do to diffuse bullying situations, and how bullying fits into the HIDOE Chapter 19 Student Misconduct frame work.
Understanding HIDOE Health Content Standards
Audience: Teachers, Administrators, School Support Personnel, Counselors, Certified Staff, Teacher Aids, Parents
When student health is good, learning is improved. This workshop will provide a definition for student health that goes beyond physical health and includes emotional and relational health as well. Participants will also learn the HIDOE Health Content Standards and some easy activities to engage students in these standards while also addressing some HIDOE Language Arts standards.
Online Health Courses
Audience: Nurses, Community Health Workers, Community Service Providers, Teachers
These courses were developed for the Pacific Open Learning Health Net, which is supported by the World Health Organization (WHO). They were designed to help health workers increase their understanding of the diseases and provide health education for different audiences. Each course has a section on presentations that helps you improve important skills needed to effectively provide health education for a variety of audiences. The courses use simple, non-technical language that is easily adaptable for presentations to schools, community groups, and others.
Preventing Diabetes and Hypertension
Participate in this online distance delivery course to increase your understanding of diabetes. http://www.prel.org/healthonline/diabetes/resource/dir01/index.htm
Preventing Mosquito Borne Diseases (Dengue, Filariasis, and Malaria)
Participate in this online distance delivery course to increase your understanding of ways to prevent contracting three diseases spread by mosquitoes in the Pacific.
http://www.prel.org/healthonline/mbd/resource/dir01/index.htm
Preventing HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis
Participate in this online distance delivery course to increase your understanding of ways to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.
http://www.prel.org/healthonline/hiv/resource/dir01/index.htm
Programs
Websites
EBSCO
Help With Ice
Ho‘oikaika Kino Curriculum Materials
Nā Hoa Ho‘ōla [NHH]
STAT!Ref
Products
Booklets:
ABCDs of HIV/AIDS
Contact PREL
Pacific Resources for Education and Learning
Phone:
(808) 441-1300
U.S. Toll-free Phone:
(800) 377-4773
AskPREL
Phone:
(808) 441-1300
U.S. Toll-free Phone:
(800) 377-4773
AskPREL
Service Request
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