Abstract
This online lightning talk will present ideas for health professionals interested in providing health education regarding mental health prevention classes in stress management, emotional expression and problem solving as well as obesity prevention lessons in children’s programs. Programming will focus on curriculum and program evaluation ideas for primary school-age children. Ideas for activities to promote child social and emotional development and websites with educational material will be reviewed. In addition, insights for teaching health classes to promote healthy eating and physical activity will be shared and evidence-based programs will be highlighted. Health professionals will learn valuable information about teaching young children. Ideas for evaluation will be shared. Health professionals participating in this lightning talk will learn about educational tools to promote health knowledge and behavior change for young children and creative ideas for evaluation, such as having children develop commercials for peers to share their new knowledge. Further research in the field should focus on transmitting health knowledge to parents and ideas for accomplishing this will be reviewed. Health professionals will be able to gain valuable information about promoting young children’s mental health and health from this online lightning talk.
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