Andrew oversees Sales, Fundraising, Marketing, and Education Services, and is responsible for all matters related to expansion and implementation in the schools and staff management.
This network has great potential for assuming an advocacy role for public policy, defining the professional role of the pedagogue/psychologist in the schools, and mental health program development and implementation in the schools.
With this study, we hope to share lessons for successful implementation in the school setting.
Teachers' descriptive reports on time spent using the program are in line with program procedures, but the relatively low attendance in program training might have contributed to a lower implementation quality in the schools.
The first question is, therefore, have these changes been maintained during the period 2007 9, that is, during the fourth to seventh years of the project's implementation in these schools.
A full evaluation trial of the intervention is now required to examine its effectiveness in reducing alcohol and cannabis use among adolescents in the UK before implementation in the UK school system.
The low occurrence of AAC implementation in the South African schools that was found in this study could possibly have hampered children with cerebral palsy who have communication difficulties to self-report their pain by alternative means such as AAC.
16 32 In terms of implementation, although the schools were supportive we regularly experienced practical difficulties with timetabling.
Developed interventions could be more flexible and adjustable for implementation in schools, and this could help the school staff to adopt and sustain the promotion practices.
Nancy Moreno, associate director of the Center for Educational Outreach and the ECOS project principal investigator, says customization shows that teachers are actively involved in the planning process for the project's implementation in their schools, and are intellectually invested in it.
Lastly, a dissemination strategy was developed, consisting of a handbook and a training course for health promotion professionals, to help them recruit teachers to work with the programme, organize a two hour kick-off meeting for the teachers, advise the teachers during programme implementation, evaluate the implementation and contribute to programme continuation in the schools [ 19].
