ALEX Resources

   View Standards     Standard(s): [HE] WH (10-12) 12 :

WH.8.1) Formulate innovative ways to influence and support people in other countries in making positive health choices.

[HE] WH (10-12) 13 :

WH.8.2) Work cooperatively as an advocate for improving world-wide health.

Examples: participating in international events such as Earth Day and World AIDS Day

[HE] WH (10-12) 14 :

WH.8.3) Adapt health messages and communication techniques to a specific global audience.

Meet Misra Walker, an 18-year-old who lives in a section of the South Bronx in New York City called Hunts Point. Misra explains some of the conditions her community lives with because of significant industrial activity in the area. She tells how she, along with her teen advocacy group, A.C.T.I.O.N., worked to convince the Manhattan Transit Authority (M.T.A.) to run a seasonal bus shuttle to one of the few green spaces in the community.

   View Standards     Standard(s): [HE] WH (10-12) 12 :

WH.8.1) Formulate innovative ways to influence and support people in other countries in making positive health choices.

[HE] WH (10-12) 13 :

WH.8.2) Work cooperatively as an advocate for improving world-wide health.

Examples: participating in international events such as Earth Day and World AIDS Day

[HE] WH (10-12) 14 :

WH.8.3) Adapt health messages and communication techniques to a specific global audience.

New York student Shadia Wood tells how she became an environmental activist in this video adapted from Earth Island Institute’s New Leaders Initiative. Wood lives near several toxic waste sites and was concerned to learn that the New York Superfund—the money set aside for cleaning such sites in her state—had gone bankrupt.

   View Standards     Standard(s): [HE] HED (9-12) 17 :

HE.3.5) Identify the necessity to seek help for mental and emotional health problems.

Examples: mood disorders, depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation

a. Locate information on how to cope with and rebuff unwanted physical and verbal exploitation by other persons.

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HE.4.1) Describe skills for communicating effectively with family, peers, and others to enhance health.

Examples: active listening, friendliness, confidence, positive feedback, empathy, respect, understanding nonverbal cues, responsiveness

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HE.4.4) Demonstrate how to ask for and offer assistance to enhance the health of self and others.

Examples: accessing crisis hotlines for suicide, sexual and physical abuse, and human trafficking; community resource materials

[HE] WH (10-12) 13 :

WH.8.2) Work cooperatively as an advocate for improving world-wide health.

Examples: participating in international events such as Earth Day and World AIDS Day

Joronda Montaño shares her story of surviving and thriving despite mental health challenges. She and the other voices of Not Broken reinforce the message that teens living with mental illnesses are not broken and not defined by their diagnoses.

   View Standards     Standard(s): [HE] WH (10-12) 13 :

WH.8.2) Work cooperatively as an advocate for improving world-wide health.

Examples: participating in international events such as Earth Day and World AIDS Day

Follow a Dallas community's fight to receive federal Superfund status to clean up the damage from a high-polluting lead smelter in this video segment adapted from Earthkeeping: "Toxic Racism." Meet Luis Sepulveda, a community member who organized the West Dallas Coalition for Environmental Justice, which eventually succeeded in having the site win Superfund status.