WPA/IACAPAP Global Curriculum Survey

Dear Neil et al.,

Would it be possible to recirculate this invitation to complete this ~5minute survey.

We recevied a good response (~200 with 72% expressing interest to join future steps) from the last round but we could have had more representation from Oceana, the Carribean, the Mediteranean, Central Asia, Russia, and perhaps more from any areas as emphasized in line 3 below.

Thank you in advance for your consideration, David
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Dear Colleagues, Families, Relatives, Young Adults, Adults, and Friends!

Anyone affected or who knows someone who is affect by a mental health problem.

We need your help, especially from those living in remote urban or rural areas, or otherwise underserved regions anywhere in this wide world!

HELP US DESIGN A GLOBAL CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH, PSYCHIATRY AND ALLIED PROFESSIONS TRAINING CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK IN SUPPORT OF LOCALLY INTEGRATED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY-CENTERED EDUCATION AND ACTION.

The International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP)

and

The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Child and Adolescent Section are developing the Global Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health Training curriculum FRAMEWORK.

To complete a short DESIGN feedback and ENGAGEMENT survey (~5 Minutes)

Click or Copy and Paste the following URL: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/x4MyX0MkYt

Here is A SHORT INFORMATIONAL VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NdMRqb1LVVM

 

HIFA profile: David Cawthorpe is Adjunct Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences; Adjunct Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry | Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; and Child Health & Wellness Researcher, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Canada. 
https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/david-cawthorpe cawthordATucalgary.ca

My source: HIFA.

Launch of National Knife Crime Centre

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Is this a knife I see before me? Or is it something else?   Am I being duped and taken for a fool? But, nobody will bother me now! I'm ready...!   I don't think this is right.   Either way, I'm asking for trouble?   Will anybody else listen?	Should I risk trying to buy a knife? How? Shop, or online? Do I look 18? I've seen the signs by the tills. Can I pass as an 18 year old? Should I pick it up and take it? Or, do I leave it exactly where it is hidden?
Do I really need a knife,  because he/she/they have one? Can I ask a friend? My cousin? No they'd grass on me. Could I pay that 5th year? Ben Kinsella Trust	NATIONAL CENTRE FOR KNIFE CRIME   Ronan's Law   ITV News [UK] - 'Bereaved families welcome launch  of national knife crime centre'

My sources: BBC Radio 4 'Today' 2nd April 2026.

Previously: 'crime' : 'knives' : 'law'

Invitation to EPI-WIN webinar: 1 Dec, on UNiTE to end digital violence ...

... why digital safety is a gender and public health imperative in emergencies

UNiTE to end digital violence:
why digital safety is a gender and public
health imperative in emergencies

We are delighted to invite you to join our webinar on #UNiTE to end digital violence, on 1 December 2025, 13.00 CET (geneva time), with Ms Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur for violence against women, its causes and consequences, Dr Stella Chungong, Director and Chair of the WHO Health Emergencies Gender Working Group, and voices of community experiences.  

Please do join the discussion and share widely.

Title: UNiTE to end digital violence: why digital safety is a gender and public health imperative in emergencies

Time and Date: 13:00 – 14:30 CET (Geneva), Monday, 1 December 2025

Registration: https://bit.ly/4prKGeu

Webpage: WHO EPI-WIN webinar: UNiTE to end digital violence: why digital safety is a gender and public health imperative in emergencies

Digital violence, such as doxxing, deepfakes, and online harassment, poses significant public health risks. Millions of women, girls, and adolescents face harassment, stalking, and threats in digital spaces meant for connection.

In crisis settings, these digital threats create multiple challenges. Understand what they are and why it is important to integrate digital safety into humanitarian health responses.

Tentative Agenda and Speakers

Welcome/Opening remarks: Digital safety as a public health imperative in crises:  Dr Stella Chungong, Director, Department of Health Emergency Preparedness & Chair, WHE Gender Working Group

Preparedness begins with protection: why digital violence must be addressed in humanitarian health work: Dr Stella Chungong, Director, Department of Health Emergency Preparedness & Chair, WHE Gender Working Group

UNFPA perspective from Executive Director, UNFPA: delivered by Dr Eugene Kongyuy, Deputy Director of Humanitarian Response Division to represent the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

Keynote address: Ms Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur for Violence Against Women, its causes and consequences

Risk communication, community engagement and infodemic management: digital violence as a driver of misinformation: Dr Kai Von Harbou, Unit Head, Community Protection & Resilience, WHO 

Surviving Digital Violence: DR Millie Phiri, journalist, researcher and author on digital violence

Community Voice:  Ms Sohaila Shamseldeen, Youth and Development Coordinator, Etijah

Caring for babies and young children - what can older children do?

Dear All

I'm delighted to tell you that we have successfully raised funding for the completion of the Children for Health ten poster series.

On completion we will have many more posters than ten as we have other posters linked to projects on Diabetes and Eye Health, Oral Health and Life Skills.

All our posters feature 10 messages for young adolescents to learn and share (on the front) and lots of ideas on how to use the posters and additional activities to get children mobilised on the back. If you haven't seen our posters PLEASE take a look here. They are being used in so many ways!

www.childrenforhealth.org/resources

...and any feedback is always welcome.
Please also share with your networks.

I am looking for specialists in early years to help us revise our existing set of 10 messages on the topic of 'Caring for Babies and Young Children' for the new poster. It is a voluntary role. The process lasts about 3 months as we involve practitioners too and work with schools to get children reviewing the messages. It's usually about 3 rounds of review and then an art work review. I'd be very pleased to hear from those who feel they have the time and expertise to help.

Meanwhile take a look at our posters. We have three new ones!

WASH: https://www.childrenforhealth.org/WASHposter

Coughs and Pneumonia: https://www.childrenforhealth.org/CoughsPoster

Intestinal Worms: https://www.childrenforhealth.org/WormsPoster

HIFA profile: Clare Hanbury is director of Children for Health. She qualified as a teacher in the UK and then worked in schools in Kenya and Hong Kong. After an MA in Education in Developing Countries and for many years, Clare worked for The Child-to-Child Trust based at the University of London's Institute of Education where, alongside Hugh Hawes and Professor David Morley she worked to help embed the Child-to-Child ideas of children's participation in health – into government and non-government cchild health and education programmes in numerous countries. Clare has worked with these ideas alongside vulnerable groups of children such as refugees and street children. Since her MSc in International Maternal and Child Health, Clare focused on helping government and non-government programmes to design and deliver child-centered health and education programmes where children are active participants. Clare has worked in many countries in East and Southern Africa and in Pakistan, Cambodia and the Yemen. In July 2013, Clare founded the NGO, Children for Health and develops health education materials and and works on health education programmes alongside partners all over the world.

https://www.hifa.org/support/members/clare clare AT childrenforhealth.org

Source link: 

https://hifaforums.org/_/XsqxTWgj

"Turning Red"

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Previously: 'menstruation'

My source: Various

Conference: Improving Child & Adolescent Health for better Public Health

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

Dear Professors and Researchers,

Dear Colleagues!

It is our pleasure to invite you to this international 2-day meeting and research exchange

held online on Tuesday & Wednesday, November 10 & 11 2020 – save the date!

Improving Child & Adolescent Health for better Public Health

– Fiction or within the scope of possibility?

to bring together researchers and stakeholders to introduce completed research projects as well as new research ideas

that address the complex challenges and needs of child & adolescent health for future collaborative projects in order to apply for national and international grants.

Please find attached a brief outline with preliminary program (contents, schedule).

We greatly appreciate your attendance and would ask for a confirmation by Friday, October 23, by replying to this email.

We also welcome your contribution in form of a short talk/pitch.

In order to finalize the program, please include the following information in your response to this e-mail:

• do you wish a short talk/pitch?
• if Yes, please use this Link for Abstract submission to confirm your talk/pitch: https://www.science2.school/ls/index.php/259577 (Deadline for Abstract submission is Friday, October 30, 2020)

120 Researchers from 56 Universities/Organizations around the world and cross-cutting disciplines and research interests are invited.

Please feel free to forward this invitation to any colleagues you think would be interested as well.

Further detailed information along with the final program will be provided as soon as it is finalized, but right in time before the event in November 2020.

We look forward to welcoming you to this international 2-day meeting on „Improving Child & Adolescent Health“!
 
 
Kind regards,
 
Katharina Wirnitzer, University College of Teacher Education Tyrol & Leopold-Franzens University, Innsbruck, AT

Prof. Clemens Drenowatz, University College of Teacher Education Upper Austria, Linz, AT

Prof. Nandu Goswami, Medical University of Graz, Graz, AT

Studienleitung (PI)

Member of Schools for Health in Europe – SHE Research Group

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Dr. rer. nat. Katharina Wirnitzer (PhD)

Institut für fachdidaktische und bildungswissenschaftliche Forschung und Entwicklung

Pädagogische Hochschule Tirol

Department of Subject Didactics and Educational Research and Development

University College of Teacher Education Tyrol

Pastorstraße 7/A.008, 2. OG
A – 6010 Innsbruck

E  katharina.wirnitzer AT ph-tirol.ac.at
I    www.ph-tirol.ac.at

Expression of Interest to Join the Global Planning Committee

 

Expression of Interest to Join the Global Planning Committee

Unlocking Potential: Prioritizing Child & Adolescent Health and Well-Being in the New Decade

CORE Group Global Health Practitioner Conference (GHPC)

For over two decades, CORE Group has hosted a Global Health Practitioner Conference featuring skills-building sessions, recent evidence on cross-sectoral technical areas, and dialogue on community health. We have a unique opportunity this year to connect even more organizations and professionals around the world with our new digital format, and this year is particularly important as we set the stage for future investment and innovation in child and adolescent health and well-being.

CORE Group and its membership will engage government, ministries of health, policymakers, practitioners, academia, civil society, private sector, global and local organizations in this virtual conference on December 8-10, 2020. This Conference positions itself as a sharing platform for promising practices and innovations, ongoing challenges, and lessons learned in child and adolescent health and well-being worldwide; and as a convening space for various stakeholders - from community health workers who perform work on the ground to government policymakers who draft national policies - to discuss current opportunities and challenges for policy making, implementation, and partnership and draw consensus on key steps to move the needle forward.

CORE Group is convening a Global Planning Committee with various interested stakeholders to provide input on conference themes and objectives and to support the creation of a multi-day, interactive agenda. Being a committee member is a volunteer position* and will require up to 6 hours per month in planning calls and agenda input, outreach to speakers, and more. If interested in participating in the Global Planning Committee, please complete the form below by Friday, August 21, 2020, COB. *A stipend will be provided to young people in the committee, CORE Group is committed to meaningful youth engagement and aims to include 50% of young leaders in this committee.

Join the Global Planning Committee

My source: Ados May, hss AT lists.coregroup.org

Op-Ed: Why dignified menstruation matters?

"reproductive health rights are human rights"

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self self-esteem  self-respect dignity FEMINITY awareness ignorance concepts personal beliefs  anxiety fear stress vulnerability  risk mental health trauma - abuse impact on education self-care self-efficacy health literacy  psychological privacy (this is my period - not my shame ...)

A matter of  human biology:  anatomy & physiology globally? Bangladesh, Nepal, India, other low and middle income countries  in South Asia menstruation, menstrual period adolescence, women of reproductive age wrong information life threatening ... menstrual hygiene  menstrual health management disaster response natural disaster, floods, cyclones, conflict, refugees cyclone shelters lighting physical security  physical access to toilets traditional materials - cloth physical privacy

even if it's yours? intergenerational factors... "When I was a girl..." Women's menstruation menstrual period  cultural and social beliefs Health literacy Health promotion negligence and whisper womanhood: dignity and respect public discussion  stereotype, ideas, taboos, stigma shame age old superstitions  life threatening harmful practices imposed to them by the family members, neighbours and the community [ Community care?! ] positive role models positive support of husbands and families social privacy

Human Rights Declaration United Nations in 1948 'dignified menstruation' UN Water water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) Disaster relief: 1. Male perspective; 2. Cultural taboo; 3. Menstrual health not in plans? power control  budgetary planning Public Health Policy Toilet facilities Provision of toilets Toilet-sewage infrastructure political privacy (do not compromise my privacy  by compromising my rights)

"All the stakeholders should explore all-inclusive 

and 

most comprehensive integrated approach 

to ensure dignified menstruation."

The Daily Observer, Why dignified menstruation matters? by PARVEZ BABUL

My source: HIFA

... and previously on W2tQ

"Here I Stand" Stories that Speak for Freedom

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	"HERE I STAND" 12+

Book cover: Walker Books

Amnesty International