Webinar Series and Other Activities on School Health & Nutrition Programs in Low Resource Countries

Several members of the FRESH Partnership are working together to gather, summarize and share knowledge about basic education, health and development programs in low resource countries. Lead organizations in this series of activities include Save the Children, Partnership for Child Development, International School Health Network, UNESCO, including the UNESCO Clearinghouse, UNODC and others. We are pleased to offer the series of webinars listed below.

The series is also being supported by resources and reports selected from the UNESCO Health Education Clearinghouse, the PCD Documents and Resources Collection and the development of a corresponding series of Wikipedia style summaries on the topics discussed, an extensive Bibliography/Toolbox and other online resources.Please join us online in the live sessions each month or view the recorded webinars at your leisure.

For a complete list and access to the recordings, slides, readings and suggested resources from the previous webinars in this series on Low Resource Countries, go to our Webinars/Web Meetings page.

Upcoming Webinars/Web Meetings on Low Resource Countries

News/Announcements

• Read and comment on the FRESH Consensus Statement on Promoting Educational Success, Health & Development in Low Resource Countries
• Read this summary of what we know about preventing alcohol & tobacco use in low resource countries. This summary is accompanied by a Policy/Better Practices Brief, and a Bibliography as well as revisions to the FRESH Thematic Indicators on Substance Abuse Prevention.
  
• Review this draft summary of what we know about promoting mental health in low resource countries

Date/Time

Session Description

Recordings/Readings/Resources

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17 September 2019
(14:00, London, UK, 9:00 am Washington DC,)

Programming for Children's Social and Emotional Well-being - Lessons from Iraq

• Dr. Allyson Krupar, Senior Specialist, Save the Children USA
• Ms. Gentjana Gjergji, BPRM Project Manager, Save the Children International

Join us and Save the Children colleagues from Washington DC/ USA, and Kurdistan/ Iraq, as they share their experience of promoting and measuring social-emotional learning in an emergency context, on our webinar commemorating World Mental Health Day.  

• What is social-emotional learning and how does it happen in schools in Iraq?
• How do we measure children's social and emotional skills and well-being in emergency and tenuous environments?
• What tools can we use to evaluate the effect of social-emotional learning activities on children's competencies?
  

To access this webinar, just click on this Participants Link a few minutes before the start of the session,

Recommended Readings & Resources

• Education Links, USAID (2019) Measuring Social and Emotional Learning in Children - Three tools that can help educators
• Save the Children (2019) Global Education Research
• Save the Children (2017) Learning and Well-Being in Emergencies: Resource Kit
• Durlak JA, Weissberg RP, Dymnicki AB, Taylor RD, and Schellinger KB (2011) The Impact of Enhancing Students’ Social and Emotional Learning: A Meta-Analysis of School-Based Universal Interventions Child Development, January/February 2011, Volume 82, Number 1, Pages 405–432