Catalogue of Resources

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Active Living Resources
• Nutrition Resources
• Smoking Resources
• Blood Pressure Resources
• Newfoundland and Labrador Heart Health Community Project Activities Manual

Introduction

Newfoundland and Labrador Heart Health Program

The Newfoundland Heart Health Program (NLHHP) is a community-based prevention program aimed at improving health and reducing the rate of heart disease in the province.

The program jointly funded by Health Canada and the provincial Department of Health and Community Services, was officially launched in May, 1990. It started as a demonstration project and is now spreading successful activities throughout the province.

About This Catalogue

Resources include written materials, programs and people. Included in this section is a brief description of some useful resources. They are grouped by topic including Active Living, Nutrition, Smoking and Blood Pressure.

In each category, programs are organized by target group i.e. General Population, Children & Youth, Older Adults. There is a brief description of each program and how to obtain it. Most of the resources are available at no cost; however, where appropriate the prices are indicated.

A list of the most commonly cited addresses is located at the back. Addresses which occur only once are included in the text.

As new information about heart health is learned, these resources may become old and replaced by new ones. This resource catalogue will be reviewed and updated on an ongoing basis.

Active Living Resources

General Population

Active Living - Your Way Every Day

Where once we focused on physical fitness primarily as a way to improve health, we now think in broader terms about how physical activity enhances many aspects of our lives. Active Living is based on the belief that physical activity improves individual well-being and the quality of life of our communities. It takes us back to basics. It's playing with the kids, walking the dog, dancing, gardening, walking at noon with colleagues, cycling to work or school, enjoying active times alone or with friends. It also involves organized activities such as competing in your favourite sport or participating in an activity class of your choice. Gather a team of interested people and create your own version of Active Living. To assist you in your work, an Active Living Resource Kit is available.

Source: Recreation and Sport Division, Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation.

Walking Club

The Walking Club package includes a personal walking diary, registration form, information booklet on walking and a wall chart for recording distances. This package was developed especially for the NLHHP to encourage walking as a regular activity for active living. It is suitable for groups or individuals of all ages.

Source: Health and Community Services Regions.

Workshops/Seminars

These workshops/seminars are targeted towards the general public and interested groups, and are organized upon the request of interested agencies, such as schools, conference committees, recreation commissions and service clubs. Topics include Active Living, Active Living for Older Adults, Stress Management, Strength Training, Back Care, Active Living for the Childbearing Year, Active Living in the Workplace, Active Living for Children and Youth, etc.

Source: Recreation and Sport Division, Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation.

SummerActive

This national project is designed to promote and celebrate Canada's growing appreciation of the many benefits of regular physical activity. Each year, between May 13 and July 28, millions of Canadians participate in special events and activities such as fun runs, bicycle rallies, community challenges, hikes, etc., held in communities of all sizes across the country. Apart from the special projects of national and provincial sport and recreation associations, the Recreation Section supports the development of "Community SummerActive Programs".

Source: Recreation and Sport Division, Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation.

Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living

What is it?

It is a Guide to help you make wise choices about physical activity. Choices that will improve your health, help prevent disease, and allow you to get the most out of life.

The Guide is in a one-page, easy-to-read format that's available for order on its own, or as a pull-out section in a Handbook that gives you even more information on building physical activity into your daily life.

The Guide provides a rainbow of physical activities that can help you have more energy, move more easily, and get stronger. It tells you how much activity you should strive for and how to get started. It also lists the many benefits of physical activity and the health risks of inactivity. The Handbook provides additional information to help you make the best use of the Guide.

Source: Health Canada
(Also available in French)

Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living for Older Adults

Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living for Older Adults promotes physical activity in an aging society. The Guide serves as a road map for older adults- explaining why physical activity is important, offering tips and easy ways to increase their physical activity, and stating how much is needed to maintain good health and improved quality of living later in life.

Source: Health Canada
(Also available in French)

The above materials are free and can be ordered in the following ways:

1. by fax: 819-779-2833
2. by toll-free telephone service: 1-888-334-9769
3. by visiting the web site, www.paguide.com and placing an order via the internet
4. by mailing requests to:
   Publications Distribution
   Communications Directorate
   Health Canada, 13th Floor
   Brooke Claxton Bldg., A.L. 0913A
   Tunney's Pasture
   Ottawa, Ontario KlA OK9

Vitality

Vitality is an integrated approach that promotes enjoying eating well, being active and feeling good about yourself. The program is designed to stimulate change within individuals and to create an environment that supports these changes. It includes public awareness activities, opportunities for public participation, initiatives for professionals, collaboration with the public and private sectors, and research.

Source: Office of Nutrition Policy and Promotion
Main Statistics Canada Building. Room 2701
Tunney's Pasture, A.L. 03020'D
K1A 0K9
Phone (613) 957-8329

Newfoundland and Labrador Parks/Recreation Association (NLP/RA)

The NLP/RA was established to promote, foster and develop recreation in the province. They provide a full range of services to enrich the concept of leisure throughout Newfoundland and Labrador and to enable individual citizens to improve their quality of life.

Source: NLP/RA
P.O. Box 8700
St. John's, NL
A1B 4J6
729-3892 FAX 729-3896

Information and Guidelines for a Healthy Heart

The purpose of this booklet is to increase awareness of the importance of healthy eating, active living, and being smoke-free, and their positive impact on heart health. Managing stress and controlling blood pressure are also important factors to keep in mind.

This booklet provides helpful information, tips, and a list of community resources to help you get started or stay on the road to heart health.

Source: Newfoundland and Labrador Heart Health Program and Regional Heart Health Coalitions

Children and Youth

Ticker Tom

The Ticker Tom Heart Health Program is a health promotion program jointly sponsored by the Newfoundland and Labrador Heart Health Program and the Teen Tobacco Team.

The Ticker Tom Program provides a fun and interactive way to get important health messages to children and youth ages 6 - 12 enrolled in summer recreation programs. Throughout this program the cat promotes the three Heart Health messages kids gotta have:

• Eat Healthy!
• Be Active!
• Stay Smoke-Free!

Based on feedback from those who have used the program, Ticker Tom provides a fun, do-able and useful way of getting and keeping youth enthused about staying healthy.

What does the Program look like?

Recreation Leaders attend an in-service organized by their Regional Heart Health Coalitions on how to run this week long Heart Health program for children. Everyday throughout Ticker Tom week, there are fun activities that focus on healthy eating, being active and staying smoke-free. At the end of the week the recreation group is encouraged to pull all the cat's teachings together and create a celebration. Ticker Tom promotional materials are available to help keep the enthusiasm going.

For more information on the program please contact the Newfoundland and Labrador Heart Health Program or the Regional Heart Health Coalition in your area.

The Canadian Active Living Challenge

The Canadian Active Living Challenge is a program designed for children ages 5 to 18 and can be used in the school or community. It includes four programs - each one aimed at a particular age group and emphasizing a certain theme. It is progressive and sequential - each successive program builds on the previous one, yet each one stands on its own. The Challenge encourages children and youth to live actively, according to their own particular needs, interests, and abilities; focuses on fun and participation - personal progress is emphasized; caters to all participants, but with its low-key, gradual approach will be especially helpful for those who are least inclined toward physical activity; and develops positive attitudes and 'plants the seeds' for lifelong involvement in physical activity.

Source: Canadian Intramural Recreation Association
1600 James Naismith Drive
Glocester Ontario
K1B 5N4
(613) 748-5639

Cost: $29.50 per program

101 Games to Play in a New Way (1466-01)

The games in this manual represent the tiniest fractions of invented games modified to provide us with new ideas for old games. Presented in an easy to follow format, the games listed in this manual are categorized by level of activity, by number of players - two to infinity - and are for young kids and those young at heart. Anyone faced with having to organize original fun and innovative activities will love those modified games.

Source: CIRA
1600 Promenade James Naismith Drive
Gloucester, Ontario
K1B 5N4
(613) 748-5639 or Fax (613) 748-5706

On the Move

On the Move is a program designed to increase the participation of 13-to-17-year-old girls in community sport programs. It provides motivational materials for increasing opportunities for the girls and women in community to get "on the move"; and a model and ideas for designing women and sport programs.

Source: Women in Sport Leadership
1600 James Naismith Drive
Gloucester, Ontario
K1B 5N4
(613) 993-0900
Cost: $35.00

Hip Hop Happy! Adventures in Physical Activity for 5 Year Olds

A creative, new, fun way of participating in physical activity, using little to no equipment. Over 100 enjoyable warm up activities, active games, and cool down ideas enable the caregiver to mix and match activities to create countless different fun-filled active adventures. Ten prepared lesson plans, each covering a special theme, explain the benefits gained in balance, body awareness, coordination, rhythm, creativity and locomotor skills. Ideal for caregivers, as well as those teaching or learning early childhood education.

Source: Serious Fun Enterprises
20 Fulton Ave.
Ottawa, Ontario
K15 4Y6
Phone: (613) 730-5986
Cost: $9.95

Active Kids: Anytime Anyplace

A practical, hands-on program providing a wide variety of activities for children ages 5 to 14 that are fun, develop fitness and skills, and are easy to implement any time, any place, by anyone. The kit includes video, a teacher's guide and a music cassette.

Source: Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (CAHPERD)
1600 James Naismith Dr., Suite 204
Gloucester, Ontario
K1B 5N4
Phone: (613) 748-5622
Fax: (613) 748-5737
Cost: $41.50

Active Living for Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers Information Folder

This folder is designed to educate leaders and the public on active living for infants, toddlers and preschoolers. Leaders in child care, public health and recreation will benefit from it. The folder has two components: Leaders, which contains information for discussion on topics such as Active Living, Relationship Between Physical Activity and Development Stages, Whole Family Involvement, Gender Equity, Tips for Leaders, Recommended Playground Maintenance Checklist, and so on: Public, which provides information sheets such as Active Living Pin-up and Poem, Families: Moving and Growing, Simple Activities, Special needs Children Living Actively, Safety, and so on. These can be photocopies as handouts.

Source: Recreation and Sport Division, Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation.
Cost: Free

Impact and Benefits of Physical Activity and Recreation on Canadian Youth-at-Risk

The role that physical activity and recreation can play in the development of young people, and in reducing youth-related risk factors is the focus of this report. it is a summary of the findings of a research study conducted by the University of New Brunswick which utilized focus groups made up of youths, parents, front-line staff and policy makers. Recommendations are offered.

Source: Recreation and Sport Division, Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation.
Cost: Free

Older Adults

Fun and Fitness: An Active Living Program for Older Adults

A program specifically designed for healthy but inactive older adults. The program emphasizes physical activities for older adults. It's a great way for persons 55+ to prevent or regain any loss of physical mobility; have fun; and enhance their community involvement and social interaction.

Source: The Canadian Red Cross Society
P.O. Box 950
250 Cornwall Street
Regina, Saskatchewan
S4P 3B4
(306) 721-1600

Cost: $7.00

Active Living for Persons With a Disability

Attitude Flex: Inclusionary Fitness Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities

This informative resource describes different types of disabilities and what to be aware of when introducing physical activity to an integrated or segregated group. Important considerations, such as intensity monitoring, flexibility and conditioning are discussed. Specific exercise guidelines are also given for aerobics, aquafitness and strength training.

Source: Serious Fun Enterprises
20 Fulton Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario
K1S 4Y6
(613) 730-5986
Cost: Video $28.00 Manual $16.50

Nutrition Resources

Many nutrition program ideas were listed by the community groups participating in the NLHHP. A brief description of resources available for these program ideas is presented.

General Population

Nutrition Presentations

The Community Health Regional Nutritionist is an excellent resource for nutrition presentations. If the nutritionist is not available, you may wish to contact a hospital dietitian in your area.

Source: Health and Community Services Regional Nutritionist

Nutrition Displays

A variety of displays can be assembled on request.

Source: Health and Community Services Regional Nutritionist

Nutrition Print Resources

Heart Smart Good Food Choices

Heart Smart Good Food Choices is a colorful information pamphlet/fridge poster, which outlines ways to adjust your diet, as well as offering tips for maintaining a Heart Smart lifestyle.

Source: Health and Community Services Regions

Healthy Heart Eating Handbook

The Healthy Heart Eating Handbook explains the what, how and why of healthy eating and lists "foods for a healthy heart".

Source: Health and Community Services Regions

Healthy Heart Shopping Guide

The Healthy Heart Shopping Guide lists brand names and specific examples of lower fat and higher fibre food choices.

Source: Health and Community Services Regions

Healthy Heart Cooking

Healthy Heart Cooking contains everyday recipes that are heart healthy plus tips on ways to use less fat, more fibre and less salt in cooking.

Source: Health and Community Services Regions

Grocery Store Tours

A guided group tour of your local grocery store can provide you with valuable information about shopping for healthy foods. These tours usually last about 1 - 1 1/2 hours and must be arranged with permission of the store manager.

Source: Health and Community Services Regional Nutritionist or a local hospital dietitian to conduct the tour.

Another option for a grocery store tour is the video "Heart Smart Shopping" which is available on loan.

Source: Heart & Stroke Foundation or Health and Community Services Regions

Heart Smart Restaurant Program

The Heart Smart Restaurant Program is a health promotion program designed to encourage restaurants to provide healthy food choices and access to no smoking seating for their customers. The program is based on a list of healthy food choices criteria which the participating restaurants agree to make available, upon request to their customers. These healthy food choice selections are displayed on promotional materials throughout the restaurant.

The next time you plan to dine out, look for a restaurant participating in the Heart Smart Restaurant Program.

For more information on the program please contact the Heart Health Coalition in your Region.

Source: Newfoundland and Labrador Heart Health Program, Regional Heart Health Coalitions or the Heart and Stroke Foundation

Information and Guidelines for a Healthy Heart

The purpose of this booklet is to increase awareness of the importance of healthy eating, active living, and being smoke-free, and their positive impact on heart health. Managing stress and controlling blood pressure are also important factors to keep in mind.

This booklet provides helpful information, tips, and a list of community resources to help you get started or stay on the road to heart health.

Source: Newfoundland and Labrador Heart Health Program and Regional Heart Health Coalitions

Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating Tearsheet

This latest edition of the tearsheet is a basic nutrition education tool used to help plan healthy meals and to evaluate eating habits. It describes the types of foods and recommended servings for the following groups: Grain Products, Vegetables and Fruit, Milk Products, Meat and Alternatives.

(Also available in French)

Source: Health Canada

Food Guide Facts

Fact Sheets have been specially designed to help educators and communicators gain an in-depth understanding of the Food Guide.

(Also available in French)

Source: Health Canada

Using the Food Guide

This booklet for consumers explains the basic concepts of the tearsheet more fully.

(Also available in French)

Source: Health Canada

Nutrient Value of Some Common Foods

A reference book presenting nutrient values of 701 foods in metric terms including the dietary fibre content.

(Also available in French)

Source: Health Canada

Cooking Classes and Programs

Heart Smart Cooking Course

The revised (1995) Heart Smart Cooking Course is available from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador. One core module, 9 information modules and 10 cooking modules allow the Dietitian or Home Economist to develop their course to meet the needs of the intended audience. The resource, which contains overheads and handouts for the course, is available on loan or for sale at a cost of $50.00.

Source: Heart and Stroke Foundation

Community Kitchens

A community kitchen is a group of 3 to 5 people who prepare meals together for themselves and/or their families. There are many benefits to forming a community kitchen.

"Community Kitchens: Taking Affordable Action on Healthy Eating" is a manual which provides guidance for groups who wish to set up a shared shopping and cooking experience. It outlines how a group can get started and how they continue. It provides information based on the experience of many people. An instructional video, entitled "Community Kitchens: Major Cooking for A Minor Sum", is also available for use with the manual.

Source: Health and Community Services Regions

(The video can be purchased from the Single Parent Association of Newfoundland, Cost $20.00)

Heart Healthy Dinner

A special event community dinner may be organized using heart healthy recipes. This may serve as a fund-raiser or simply as an opportunity to celebrate the success of your Heart Health Project.

Cookbooks

Eat to Your Heart's Content - Healthy Eating on a Budget, introduced and compiled by Margaret Harnum, nutrition editing by Annette Stapenhorst.

This is more than a cookbook, it provides excellent information on:

• value vs. cost
• food and health
• principles for healthy eating
• weight-wise suggestions
• planning healthy meals
• shopping smarts
• a master shopping list
• reading labels
• budget wise choices
• using leftovers
• storing food safely

In addition, the recipe selection includes a special focus on children plus a variety of quick, low cost, heart healthy recipes with lots of preparation tips.

Source: Single Parent Association of Newfoundland
P. O. Box 9602
St. John's, NL
A1A 4J6
Phone: (709) 738-3401
Cost: $10.00

The following cookbooks are available from the Heart and Stroke Foundation. They provide a valuable resource for heart healthy cooking. You may wish to try some recipes on your own or with a group: (add $ 2.00 for shipping and handling costs)

Bonnie Stern's Heart Smart Cooking for Family and Friends $ 28.95 + HST

Heart Smart Chinese Cooking $ 14.95 + HST

Heart Smart Cooking on a Shoe String $ 7.95 + HST

The Heart Smart Shopper - Nutrition on the Run $ 9.95 + HST

Lighthearted Everyday Cooking $19.95 + HST

The Lighthearted Cookbook $16.95 + HST

More Heart Smart Cooking $ 19.95 + HST

Simply Heart Smart Cooking $19.95 + HST

Source: Heart & Stroke Foundation

Healthy Weight Resources

Healthy Eating: Active Living - Diets don't work

This booklet will help you understand why Diets don't work . It will tell you about weight cycling, or yo-yo dieting, and how to stop it. It will also tell you about your healthy weight and suggest ways to have a healthy lifestyle, no matter what you weigh.

Source: Health and Community Services Regions

Healthy Eating for Healthy Weight

Healthy Eating for Healthy Weight explains the concept of healthy weight and includes a chart for calculating Body Mass Index.

Source: Health and Community Services Regions

Waist-Hip Ratio

Waist-Hip Ratio links the concepts of healthy weight and body fat distribution and describes how to calculate waist-hip ratios.

Source: Health and Community Services Regions

How Does Your Diet Score?

Record the food you eat for one day and rate it according to Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating.

Source: Health and Community Services Regions

Eat Heart Smart Video, 16 min. 1992.

Canada's Guidelines For Healthy Eating are the basis for the recommendations on choosing, shopping for and cooking food. Suggestions for decreasing the fat and salt in your diet, and increasing the fibre, as well as determining Body Mass Index are also featured.

Source: Heart & Stroke Foundation and Health and Community Services Regions

Children and Youth

Ticker Tom

The Ticker Tom Heart Health Program is a health promotion program jointly sponsored by the Newfoundland and Labrador Heart Health Program and the Teen Tobacco Team.

The Ticker Tom Program provides a fun and interactive way to get important health messages to children and youth ages 6 - 12 enrolled in summer recreation programs. Throughout this program the cat promotes the three Heart Health messages kids gotta have:

• Eat Healthy!
• Be Active!
• Stay Smoke-Free!

Based on feedback from those who have used the program, Ticker Tom provides a fun, do-able and useful way of getting and keeping youth enthused about staying healthy.

What does the Program look like?

Recreation Leaders attend an in-service organized by their Regional Heart Health Coalitions on how to run this week long Heart Health program for children. Everyday throughout Ticker Tom week there are fun activities that focus on healthy eating, being active and staying smoke-free. At the end of the week the recreation group is encouraged to pull all the cat's teachings together and create a celebration. Ticker Tom promotional materials are available to help keep the enthusiasm going.

For more information on the program please contact the Newfoundland and Labrador Heart Health Program or the Regional Heart Health Coalition in your area.

Guidelines for School Cafeterias and Canteens

These guidelines support Comprehensive School Health and are key to providing healthy foods in school while allowing some flexibility. It will be useful to those who make decisions about what foods to offer.

Source: Health and Community Services Regions

Heart at Play

Heart At Play is a resource kit on heart health based on "discovery learning" for children aged 9 - 11 years. Children are encouraged to learn about how the heart works, and how healthy eating and physical activity contribute to a healthy heart. The facilitator or teacher acts as a resource person to assist the children with their projects.

Source: Heart and Stroke Foundation
222 Queen Street Suite 1402
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5V9
(613) 569-4361
Fax: (613) 569-0990

Smoking Resources

General Population

Prevention/Protection

Kids Decide But Parents Tip The Scales

This pamphlet is designed to assist parents in influencing their child's decision not to smoke. It looks at the child's surroundings and parents personal message and offers suggestions for action.

Source: Health and Community Services Regions.

No Smoking Signs

These 8 1/2" x 11" signs are designed to be posted in No Smoking areas.

Source: Health and Community Services Regions.

Tobacco: The Facts

Identifies the facts about smoking tobacco products and second hand smoke. It also identifies the health benefits of quitting and the time frame that it takes for the body to recover.

Source: Health and Community Services Regions.

Fact Series - includes pamphlets:

• Cigarette smoking
• Is there a safe tobacco
• Second hand smoke
• Nicotine addiction & cigarettes
• Pipe & cigar smoke
• Smoking & the two of you

Source: Newfoundland and Labrador Lung Association

Breakfree Quitting Guide

A flyer which provides useful information for people trying to select a smoking cessation program.

Source: Health and Community Services Regions.

In Control (video)

In Control is a stop smoking program based on the most recent smoking and nicotine research available. This is a 13 segment program which includes a 14 day weight maintenance plan. "Participants" are shown on the program as models for the viewer. Throughout the 13 segments they face the difficulties experienced by smokers going through the quitting process.

Source: Newfoundland and Labrador Lung Association and Health and Community Services Regions.

Get on Track

A self-help quit smoking guide provides information on how to get ready, what to do when you are quitting and how to stay a non-smoker. Many of the methods are tried and true methods from people who have successfully quit smoking.

Source: Newfoundland and Labrador Lung Association

Baby's Coming, Baby's Home

A resource package designed to help prenatal and postnatal mothers and their families to create smoke-free environments for their babies. It focuses on issues relating to smoking during pregnancy, the health effects of exposure to second-hand smoke and the importance of creating smoke-free homes, in the prenatal and postnatal period. Health professionals, educators and other resource people in the community can use the materials in this package to assist women and their families to make informed choices about the effects of smoking and second-hand smoke on their health and the health of their families. (A joint project of the Lung Association of Newfoundland and Labrador and Community Health - St. John's region.)

Source: Newfoundland and Labrador Lung Association & Health and Community Services Regions

Lung Facts

A compilation of 22 "Fact" sheets about smoking. Includes tips on how to quit, how second-hand smoke affects children, what's in a cigarette, and many other smoking related topics.

Source: Newfoundland and Labrador Lung Association

Smoke-Free Homes Sticker

A great way to inform your guests that your home is a smoke-free home. A window sticker that says, "Welcome to our smoke-free home." Can easily be placed on the window of your front door.

Source: Newfoundland and Labrador Lung Association

Information and Guidelines for a Healthy Heart

The purpose of this booklet is to increase awareness of the importance of healthy eating, active living, and being smoke-free, and their positive impact on heart health. Managing stress and controlling blood pressure are also important factors to keep in mind.

This booklet provides helpful information, tips, and a list of community resources to help you get started or stay on the road to heart health.

Source: Newfoundland and Labrador Heart Health Program and Regional Heart Health Coalitions

Children and Youth

Prevention

Ticker Tom

The Ticker Tom Heart Health Program is a health promotion program jointly sponsored by the Newfoundland and Labrador Heart Health Program and the Teen Tobacco Team.

The Ticker Tom Program provides a fun and interactive way to get important health messages to children and youth ages 6 - 12 enrolled in summer recreation programs. Throughout this program the cat promotes the three Heart Health messages kids gotta have:

• Eat Healthy!
• Be Active!
• Stay Smoke-Free!

Based on feedback from those who have used the program, Ticker Tom provides a fun, do-able and useful way of getting and keeping youth enthused about staying healthy.

What does the Program look like?

Recreation Leaders attend an in-service organized by their Regional Heart Health Coalitions on how to run this week long Heart Health program for children. Everyday throughout Ticker Tom week there are fun activities that focus on healthy eating, being active and staying smoke-free. At the end of the week the recreation group is encouraged to pull all the cat's teachings together and create a celebration. Ticker Tom promotional materials are available to help keep the enthusiasm going.

For more information on the program please contact the Newfoundland and Labrador Heart Health Program or the Regional Heart Health Coalition in your area.

Smokefree Program: A Tobacco Reduction Program for Preschoolers

The kit is designed for use in junior kindergartens and day care centres and contains: a teacher's guide, resources for care-givers to use with children, a pamphlet describing the program to distribute to parents and another pamphlet to advise them how to keep their children smoke-free.

There are three videos (3 min.; 1 min.; and 30 seconds) in both French and English which may be used on television or loaned to kindergartens and schools.

There is a promotional flyer for day care centres and junior kindergartens as well as a slide/script show for in-service use.

Source: Canadian Cancer Society, Nfld. Division.

Making a Difference - a peer-led smoking prevention program.

This Allied Youth project is sponsored by the Nfld. Heart Health Program. It utilizes the latest knowledge in smoking prevention, senior students or group members are trained to deliver the program to the junior age youth (11-13 years). The Allied Youth organization is developing a system to deliver the program through existing community organizations.

Source: Allied Youth, Drug Dependency Services, Department of Health and Community Services

Diary of a Teenage Smoker

"Diary of a Teenage Smoker" is an educational video developed by Health Canada with advice from an Advisory Committee made up of members representing women, education, health, natives and francophones from across Canada. The video is accompanied by a facilitator's guide which complements the video and encourages self-reflection and group discussions. The target group is young women between 12 and 15.

The goal of the Program is to reduce and/or prevent tobacco use among young women.

The objectives of the video and guide are:

1. to create awareness in young women of the factors which contribute to smoking (factors like: advertising/media, peer pressure, body image, self-esteem, etc.);
2. to encourage young women to have positive self-image and to be powerful, independent and confident; and
3. to inform young women of the different stages they will go through as growing women and of the different issues and pressures they will have to face, focusing on smoking as one of them.

The video uses a feminist approach in a sense that it:

1. gives young women a voice (they speak to the camera in their own words);
2. recognizes that girls experience adolescence and smoking differently than boys.

The video, a recommended resource for the health program "Adolescence: Healthy Lifestyles", was distributed to all intermediate schools and Community Health Regions by the Departments of Health and Education.

Source: Health and Community Service Regions.
Date of Publishment:1991
Running Time: 26 mins

Cessation

Kick the Nic 2000

Kick the Nic 2000 is a tobacco cessation program to help teens quit the nicotine habit. It has been designed to help health care and educational professionals offer group smoking cessation sessions in their communities.

Kick the Nic 2000 is available throughout the Province FREE of charge. It is being carefully monitored and evaluated to ensure that the program accomplishes what it sets out to do, help teens to quit smoking.

Individuals who are interested in offering a program to teens must attend a KTN Facilitator Training Workshop.

Source: Health Educator, Health and Community Services Regions or,
The Youth Tobacco Coordinator,
Department of Health & Community Services
at (709) 729-1374 or
email teentobaccoteam@mail.gov.nl.ca

Quit for Life (Q4L) - A quit Smoking Program for Teens

Over a five year period, Health Canada has helped teenagers quit smoking through the distribution of the "Quit 4 Life" kit -- a free smoking cessation kit that teens could order through a 1-800 line. In February 1998, after five years of success with the kit, Health Canada introduced its first fully interactive smoking cessation Web site, quit4life.com / vie100fumee.com.

Targeted for youth ages 13 to 19, the quit4life Web site presents the user a choice of four unique stories about teens encountering different obstacles as they tried to quit smoking. Since experts stress the importance of interaction, users will have the opportunity to chat with others online about their concerns. The Quit 4 Life site offers positive, realistic and supportive advice and does not attempt to reduce the difficulties associated with quitting smoking.

In partnership with the Canadian Lung and Dental Associations, the Web site is being promoted through banner ads on many popular teen Web sites, through magazine ads in Tribute, Watch, Accés Jeune and 7 Jours, and through the "Challenge to Youth" advertisements airing on Much Music, Musique Plus, YTV, and the national networks.

In its first two weeks, more than 5,000 people visited quit4life.com and it was named one of Yahoo Canada’s "Picks of the week" for the week of March 6, 1998.

Alternative Therapies: Choosing One That's Right for You

Explains the four factors necessary to quit smoking and explains the alternative therapies which may assist in smoking cessation.

Source: Health & Community Services Regions

Coping Without Smoking

A self-help support group for people who are thinking about quitting smoking, have quit and have had a slip, or are trying to remain smoke-free. The group is facilitated by Smoking Cessation Coordinator Marie Lush, who is a former smoker herself. The group provides support and tips to those struggling with quitting smoking. Educational support and materials are also available. There is a small fee of $10 annually to cover the cost of materials. The group meets every Wednesday, from September to May, at 7:30 p.m. The meetings are held at the Lung Association House, 292 LeMarchant Road.

Source: Newfoundland and Labrador Lung Association

Smoking Cessation Quit Line

This exciting new program offers a toll free number (1-800-363-5864) that smokers, or family members who are concerned for the health of their loved one and themselves, can call and speak to a trained smoking cessation counselor. The Quit Line is designed to help would-be quitters progress through various stages of change (i.e, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance) identified in the transtheoretical model of cessation. Follow-up support and materials are also provided. *NOTE: The caller will most likely reach an answering machine upon calling, but is prompted to leave their name, telephone number, and a convenient time for a counselor to return their call.

Source: Newfoundland and Labrador Lung Association

Blood Pressure Resources

The Newfoundland and Labrador Heart Health Lifestyle Clinic Resource Package.

This Resource Package is a resource for community volunteers who are interested in conducting lifestyle clinics in their communities. The package includes:

1. guidelines on how to conduct lifestyle clinics in a community
2. information on lifestyle issues that affect heart health, i.e.. smoking, active living, healthy eating
3. a training module for blood pressure, height, weight and BMI (Body Mass Index) checks which has been designed for use by Community Health Nurses who will be involved in the training for volunteers.

Source: Newfoundland and Labrador Heart Health Program

How to Plan a Health Fair

How to Plan a Health Fair outlines steps for planning a health fair in a community and provides suggestions for making the fair a success. A Heart Health Fair can include blood pressure checks as well as displays and activities on all the different risk factors for heart disease.

Source: Health and Community Services

Newfoundland and Labrador Heart Health Community Project Activities Manual

The Newfoundland and Labrador Heart Health Community Project Activities Manual is a collection of information from the nine Community Heart Health Projects in the province. It contains descriptions of the various activities that have been initiated by each of the projects and includes step by step directions for conducting these activities. These activities focus on the heart health messages of being active, eating healthy, not smoking and knowing your blood pressure.

The Index for this manual is given below. Copies of the various sections of the manual are available from the Health and Community Services Regions.

Index

Active Living 14A, 11B, 11C, 9D, 10E
Aerobics 25A, 14B, 15C, 10D, 13F
Alternate Nutrition Activities 31A
Aquasize Classes 13D
Blood Pressure Clinic 10B, 10C, 7F
Breakfast Program 8E
Canada Day Celebrations 20C
Children's Soccer Clinic 18C
Community Walk 12F
Community Kitchens Program 18D, 6H
Cooking Course 29A
Dance for Heart 24A, 16B, 14C, 14D, 14F
Family Fun Days 18A
Fitness Club 9F
Fitness Week 21B
Fitness Food and Fun Day 26A
Floor Hockey 16C
Fun Run 21A, 19C
Go For Green 21C
Grocery Store Tour 24C, 17D
Harvest Fest 24B
Healthy Eating 28A, 23B, 22C, 15D, 5E
Heart Health Road Signs 5B
Heart Health Launch Event 4E
Heart Health "Kickoff" Event 5C, 4F
Heart Health Fair 6A, 6B, 4D, 5F
Heart Smart Restaurants 4G
Lifestyle Clinics 11A
Low Cost Cooking and Nutrition Classes 4H
Needs Assessment Survey 9A, 9B, 8C, 7D
Nutrition Breaks 6E
Nutrition Classes 16D
Nutrition Presentations 23C
Open House 4A, 6D
Quality Daily Physical Exercise (QDPE) 14E
Santa Claus Parade 8B, 7C
School Attendance Program 11E
Senior Citizen's Lunch 25C
Seniors Active Living Workshop 15B
Sliding Party 12D
Smoking Prevention 33A, 27B, 18E, 4I
Smoking Cessation Program 17E
Smoking 32A, 26B, 16E
Softball 17C
Span Cookbook 5H
Strategy Development for Tobacco Use 28B
Volunteers 8A
Walking Club 15A, 13B, 13C, 11D, 13E, 11F
Winter Carnival 17B

Source: Health and Community Services Regions

Addresses for Heart Health Resources

Newfoundland and Labrador Heart Health Program
Department of Health and Community Services
P.O. Box 8700
St. John's, NL
A1B 4J6
Phone: 729-3939
Fax: 729-5824
E-mail: NHHP@infonet.st-johns.nf.ca
Click here for regional coalition addresses.

Health Organizations

Canadian Cancer Society
P. O. Box 8921
St. John's, NL
AlB 3R9
Phone: 753-6520
Fax: 753-9314

Newfoundland and Labrador Heart & Stroke Foundation
P. O. Box 5819
St. John's, NL
AlC 5X3
Phone: 753-8521
Fax: 753-3117

Newfoundland and Labrador Lung Association
P. O. Box 5250
St. John's, NL
AlC 5W1
Phone: 726-4664
Fax: 726-255

National Active Living Organizations

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