Healthy Child Manitoba
Specialized Evalutions
Specialized evaluations provide info rmation on a specific intersectoral area of focus or issue. Specialized evaluations are time-limited and involve a single site and/or a promising program that is currently underway. The results provide outcome information on promising programs toward establishing local best practice models in Manitoba.
Healthy Child Manitoba supports the following specialized research:
COACH
In it’s 11th year, COACH is a 24-hour wrap around program for children with extreme behavioural, emotional, social and academic issues. The day program includes academic and community based components; the evening/weekend component includes family support and community activities. There is an ongoing evaluation of COACH which focuses on pre and post measures in a case study format. For more information, click here.
Community Schools Investigators: Summer Learning Enrichment Program
Research has shown that children living in families with low income are at risk of losing academic knowledge over the course of the summer (summer learning loss). Currently, 13 schools in the city of Winnipeg are participating in the Community School Investigators: Summer Learning Enrichment Program (CSI). CSI is planning a future evaluation.
Healthy Buddies
The Healthy Buddies™ program is a school-based health education and health promotion program designed to empower elementary-school children to live healthier lives by using an innovative teacher-guided, student-facilitated peer-based approach to program delivery.
Twenty elementary schools in Manitoba participated in the pilot the program and a randomized controlled evaluation. The purpose of this pilot was to evaluate the effectiveness of Healthy Buddies™ in Manitoba and determine the value of offering and implementing this program at a provincial level.
Additional information pertaining to Manitoba can be found at:
http://www.gov.mb.ca/healthychild/healthybuddies/index.html
http://www.gov.mb.ca/asset_library/en/newslinks/2009/april2009/HealthyBuddies.HL.doc
http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/press/top/2009/04/2009-04-09-115300-5653.html
To download the results of the pilot evaluation, click here.
Life Skills Training
Botvin LifeSkillsTraining (LST) focuses on enhancing self-management skills (e.g. increasing self-esteem and reducing stress) and general social skills (e.g. overcoming shyness and building relationships), as well as skills for resisting substances. Research has proven that LST reduces the risks of alcohol, tobacco, drug abuse, and violence by focusing on the major social and psychological factors that promote risky behaviours.
In 2009/10 the pilot, launched was launched in 30 grade three classrooms across the province. These schools are participating in a randomized controlled trial evaluation to determine the effectiveness of LST in Manitoba. These evaluation results will be shared with participating stakeholders.
More information about Life Skills Training can be found at: http://www.lifeskillstraining.com
Additional information pertaining to Manitoba can be found at:
http://www.gov.mb.ca/healthychid/lst/index.html
http://www.gov.mb.ca/healthyschools/conference/paterson.pdf 
PAX Game (Pilot)
The Healthy Child Manitoba Office (HCMO) and the department of Education are piloting the PAX Game in the 2011/12 school year. All teachers with grade 1 students were invited to participate in the pilot. Over 200 schools from all regions of the province have expressed interest. A randomized controlled trial (RCT) will be done, with half of the schools implementing the PAX Game in 2011/12, while the other schools will implement PAX in the 2012/13 school year. A RCT is the best method to evaluate effectiveness of a program. Classroom and student level information will be collected to see if children in PAX classrooms have improved behaviours. Results from the evaluation will be available Fall 2012.
For more information, click here.
Seeds of Empathy
In collaboration with Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre (MFNERC) under a tripartite agreement between Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, MFNERC, and HCMO, Manitoba has launched Seeds of Empathy. Seeds of Empathy, an expansion of the Roots of Empathy program to children ages 3-5, is designed to foster social and emotional competence and early literacy skills and attitudes. A randomized controlled trial is being conducted to determine the effectiveness of SOE in increasing early literacy and empathy.
Signs of Suicide (Pilot)
Signs of Suicide (SOS) is a new initiative within the Awareness and Understanding component of Reclaiming Hope – Manitoba’s Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy. In the 2009/10 school year, 13 schools implemented the SOS program to their grade 9 students and participated in an evaluation. Results of the SOS evaluation will be available in 2010/11.
Teen Clinics
HCMO funds the Elmwood, St. John's, and Selkirk-Norman Teen Clinics in Winnipeg. These clinics address the general health and well-being of students and neighbourhood youth, including sexual and reproductive health issues. An evaluation framework has been developed to evaluate all the HCMO-funded clinics.
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