Health-Promoting Preschool

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By participating in Health-Promoting Preschools, preschools in Iceland are offered tools and support to work systematically on health promotion.

Health promotion is based on creating conditions and an environment where people can flourish daily and at work.

Participation provides

• Access to the online system heilsueflandi.is where each preschool manages the school's health promotion activities

• Guidelines on the process and the use of heilsueflandi.is

• Access to lectures and educational material

• A poster to hang in the preschool

• Support by phone and e-mail

• To see and show the good things they are doing!

What is a Health-promoting preschool?

Health-promoting preschool is not a project with a beginning and an end but an approach that will be useful in future work. Each preschool works at its own pace, and the school is expected to take up to a year to prepare.

Preparation

The preparatory work includes

• Forming a steering committee

• Checking the status of the preschool

• Drafting a health policy

• Filling in a checklist on a website available to participating preschools. Each preschool can evaluate its status and keep track of targeted health promotion activities.

Cost

Participation is free of charge, and no preparatory work is required before applying.

Application process

Applying implies that the preschool has committed to working systematically on health promotion and that the school administrators confirm this by signing the application. After the application is received, the preschool will get access to the website heilsueflandi.is as well as other information to help them start their work.