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Welcome to this wiki in which we discuss how settings-based approaches, strategies and coordinated programs can be used to enhance learning, health, social development, safety, sustainability and other aspects of human development. This wiki is intended to be a "meeting place" for those who work in specific settings, where we can learn from others about holistic strategies, theory and exemplary practices. It will also enable those who are working on different aspects of human development in the same setting to learn from each other (eg "green hospitals and health promoting hospitals, child-friendly/human rights schools and healthy schools).

This wiki is not intended to duplicate the many excellent web sites, wikis and blogs that address specific settings or different aspects of human development.

A ‘setting for health’ has been defined by the World Health Organization as: “The place or social context in which people engage in daily activities in which environmental, organisational and personal factors interact to affect health and wellbeing.” In this wiki, we extend that concept to include "settings for all" aspects of human development. These different aspects of human development include:
  • life-long learning, education and training
  • health promotion (including a variety of aspects of health)
  • inclusion of people with disabilities
  • safety, security, crime prevention
  • equity and economic development for those in poverty
  • personal, social, moral, spiritual/religous development
  • human rights, diversity, global awareness
  • environmental citizenship and sustainability
Settings can be defined as geographical areas or social or economic contexts such as communities, islands, or regions within a country. Settings can be formal organizations such as schools or workplaces, as well as informal places such as churches or drop-in centres.

Settings-based work, where we discuss settings-based work in general as well as the interactions between settings has its own section on this wiki. In this section, we examine common or shared theories, strategies and learnings such as systems thinking, organizational development, diffusion theory, and more.

Each of the following settings has a starter page in this. Each of those starter pages has links to selected web sites and international networks on that setting as well as some key reports and research.
  1. Families/homes/housing
  2. Pre-school and daycare settings, including the hybrid setting of integrated EC services
  3. Schools
  4. Non-school settings for youth in the community (recreation, arts, youth centres, sports)
  5. Post-secondary institutions and training programs and youth oriented workplaces
  6. Communities, neighbourhoods and municipal approaches
  7. Faith-based, ethno-cultural communities, gender, orientation and other lifestyles that create/maintain communities
  8. Hospitals and primary health care programs
  9. Marketplaces, shopping centres, restaurants, retail outlets that create a community or social network
  10. Workplace settings
  11. Prison and detention centres
  12. Seniors centres, homes and other facilities
  13. Virtual settings (social networks, instant messaging, gaming, second life web sites, simulated web sites)
  14. Hybrid and non-traditional settings (including the homeless)
  15. Aboriginal settings

This wiki has been created by the Health & Learning Knowledge Centre (HLKC) of the Canadian Council on Learning as part of its long-term plan to encourage applied research, promote knowledge synthesis and exchange, identify more relevant indicators of program effectiveness, establish or strenthen networks and increase awareness of the connections between health, learning and social development.

The Health & Learning Knowledge Centre is pleased to offer this wiki as a tool for practitioners, officials, researchers and policy-makers to share research evidence and observations based on experience and practice across Canada and from around the world. We are pleased to be working with the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) which has formed a panel of experts and organizations to promote settings-based strategies.

Visitors to this wiki are invited to add their comments to any of the pages by starting a discussion "thread" (found at the bottom of each page). If you would like to contribute to this wiki by adding or editing pages, creating links to other web sites and resources, uploading documents, then select the "Join this wiki" button on this page and we will respond to your request.

Highlights

  • Go to the page on the HLKC Settings Conference, May 2009 for the latest information, downloads and more.

  • Review the several pages of research, reports and resources that has been collected and listed (with convenient web links) on how schools, recreation/sports/youth, communities and post-secondary institutions can prevent skin cancer and promote sun safety.


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