Objective: Increase students’ awareness of healthy nutrition

Target audience: All students and staff

Programme details: Find out about the programme criteria, how we will support your school, and more.

Objective: Increase physical activity participation among students through regular contemporary workout sessions

Target audience: All students

Programme details:

• Schools can schedule 4 to 10 sessions at intervals of 1 to 2 weeks between each session.
• A minimum of 40 students are required for each session.
• Logistics support will be required - portable sound system with microphone, music player, first-aid kit and a raised platform/stage (preferably indoor venue is preferred in case of rain).

Objective: Improve the health and wellbeing of employees in schools and build a health promoting workplace

Rationale: A sustained and effective workplace health programme improves the overall health and wellbeing of employees. This contributes to a positive workplace environment and productive workforce.

Target audience: All staff

Programme details:

• Engaging workshops that help your staff improve their wellbeing during contact time or staff engagement days.
• Your staff will learn to use tools such as online health coaching and health-related applications to track their personal health.
• Selected members of your staff will be equipped with the knowledge, skills and resources to champion workplace health activities among the rest of the staff.

Objectives:

• To equip students with the knowledge and skills to make informed decisions
• Educate about the harms of smoking such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes
• Highlight peer pressure to smoke as one of the challenges that youth encounter during adolescence

Target Audience: Secondary 1 to 3 students

Programme Content:
A 30-minute Interactive Assembly Skit to raise awareness on:

• How smoking is related to other youth developmental issues
• The benefits of a tobacco-free lifestyle
• Promoting smoke-free norms

Objective: Empower students with knowledge and skills to better understand and manage challenging emotions, promote positive emotional wellbeing.

Programme Details:

• 40-min interactive forum theatre (either in face to face or virtual formats)
• Requires student participation

Synopsis:

Adnan is a high-achiever and is under pressure to be come the school’s top student. However, he has terrible troubles sleeping at night due to anxiety and does not want to speak about the issue. Shu Han, who is Adnan’s friend, is an average student who often gets teased by classmates.

Timmy, a fellow schoolmate, is moody and likes to express his frustrations online. He seems to be gaining popularity with online friends commenting on his angry posts. How will the trio manage these emotions?

Objective: To equip students with knowledge and skills to manage conflicts, stress, and to avoid smoking initiation.

Programme Details:

• 45-min interactive forum musical (either in face to face or virtual formats)

Areas of Topic:

Theme 1 (Conflict management & relationships):

• Using I-Statements
• 3Cs (Collaborate, compromise and Concede)

Theme 2 (Managing stress):

• Use cognitive reappraisal to cope with stress
• Debunk myth that smoking relieves stress

Theme 3 (Smoking):

• Benefits of a tobacco-free lifestyle
• Be assertive and reject cigarette offers
• Give and excuse
• Change the subject
• Just say ‘NO’, firmly and repeatedly
• Reversing the pressure

Objective: Provide accurate information on sexually transmitted infections, HIV/STIs and protection

Target audience: Secondary 3 and JC/CI 1 students

Programme details:

• For Secondary School students:
  • One mass talk
  • Class-based lesson taught by MOE-trained sexuality education teachers (one week after the mass talk)
• For Junior College/Centralised Institute students:
  
  • One mass talk. Note that the corresponding class-based lesson in Growing Years (Unit 2 Lesson 3: With Knowledge, Comes Responsibility) should be carried out within a month after the mass talk has been conducted.

Objective:

To help youth understand and draw upon their strengths in order to take control of their own process of change and channel their attention away from smoking and other risky behaviours by engaging in healthy activities.

Target Audience: Youth Smokers in the Polytechnics

Programme details:

Using a strengths-based approach, this programme focuses on the youth’s strengths rather than their problems in order to drive change by eliciting their inner strength and wisdom while equipping them the skills and knowledge to kick the habit and learning positive coping strategies.

The programme comprises of 4 to 5 small group sessions to be completed within 4 months. The duration for each session is 1 hour.

In this workshop, we'll be sharing on the 3 domains of Mental wellbeing: Positive functioning, Social and Emotional Intelligence. There'll also be practical parenting tips and discussions on how to Care, Communicate and Coach your child in a way to boost up their mental wellbeing. Importantly, as parents we will learn about self-care techniques too, which will be useful as we journey through parenthood.

Objective: A programme designed to equip school staff with knowledge and strategies to help students quit smoking

Target Audience: School teachers / staff involved in smoking cessation for students

Programme Content:
5 segments and an assessment where participants will be:

• Required to complete an online module on smoking cessation prior to the workshop
• Taught practical strategies to help youths understand their smoking behaviour and motivate them to lead a smoke-free lifestyle

Objective: Train educators on:

• Basic knowledge on common mental health problems that students may face and the ability to pick up early warning signs
• Necessary skills to provide appropriate support and referral to services and resources in the school for students, both before and after they seek professional help
• Encouraging help-seeking and promoting early treatment

Target Audience

• Educators and staff of IHL youths. Minimum of 30 pax per session.

Programme details:

• A full day interactive workshop
• Either in face to face or virtual formats

Content covers:

• Common youth mental health issues
• Protective and risk factors
• How to identify signs of distress in youths
• Strategies to support youths at risk/in distress
• Strategies to promote supportive environments for youths and to encourage help-seeking behaviour
• Referral process and available resources for youths
• Importance of self-care for educators

Objective: Empower students with skills to become health ambassadors

Target audience: Lower secondary students and student leaders

Programme details:

• A one-day workshop (10am to 4pm) that equips students with knowledge and skills on:
  • Peer-led health promotion
  • Pertinent health issues related to youths
  • Life skills such as project management, team work and communication
• Students are required to implement a health promotion project and submit a report to us within three months of project implementation.
• A minimum of 40 students per session, or 10 students if combined with another school