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Work: Heads Up: Media-Smart Youth: Eat, Think, and Be Active! A Media Literacy Initiative

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) asked AED to assist with a multi-year media literacy initiative to address healthy lifestyle decision making among young people ages 11 to 13. To meet the challenge, CHC developed an interactive-learning curriculum geared to youth in after-school programs to build skills that encourage critical thinking and healthy lifestyle choices.

CHC fostered and nurtured intensive collaborations with youth-serving organizations nationwide to gain their input and ensure that the resultant curriculum modules would be useful and usable - and most important, that they would be fun and engaging to youth. CHC also provided technical assistance to pilot sites implementing curriculum lessons and media production projects, and created a Web site for curriculum pilot-site facilitators to share experiences and provide feedback.

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