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10 Days Till Houston! Let the Count Down Begin-Featured Speaker at the National Black Book Festival.

Ten days from now, I will speaking at the National Black Book Festival in Houston, TX! This year, I will be speaking about the inspiration for my book, my experiences as a teacher, and providing stategies to parents for career coaching their child to success.  More information about the National Black Book Festival is listed below:

My Link: http://www.nationalblackbookfestival.com/seminar5.htm

Coming Soon: Coming Soon: Kid Medic, Classroom Medic Curriculum and Seminars

Coming Soon:  Kid Medic, Classroom Medic Curriculum and Seminars

The Classroom Medic Curriculum was designed to introduce children in grades K-8 to  health education by linking health concepts to cross-curriculum activities.  The Classroom Medic Curriculum is based on National Health Education Standards established for grades K-8, and will consists of fun, interactive activities that encourages children to live a healthy lifestyle.  The curriculum focuses on building health skills in advocacy, self care, interpersonal communication, healthy decision making, accessing health information, and health comprehension. 

The standards are listed below:

NHES:  Standard 1
Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.

Rationale: The acquisition of basic health concepts and functional health knowledge provides a foundation for promoting health-enhancing behaviors among youth. This standard includes essential concepts that are based on established health behavior theories and models. Concepts that focus on both health promotion and risk reduction are included in the performance indicators.

Performance Indicators*—Health Education Standard 1

Pre-K-Grade 2

1.2.1 Identify that healthy behaviors impact personal health.
1.2.2 Recognize that there are multiple dimensions of health.
1.2.3 Describe ways to prevent communicable diseases.
1.2.4 List ways to prevent common childhood injuries.
1.2.5 Describe why it is important to seek health care.
  
Grades 3-5

1.5.1 Describe the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.
1.5.2 Identify examples of emotional, intellectual, physical, and social health.
1.5.3 Describe ways in which safe and healthy school and community environments can promote personal health.
1.5.4 Describe ways to prevent common childhood injuries and health problems.
1.5.5 Describe when it is important to seek health care.
Grades 6-8
1.8.1 Analyze the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.
1.8.2 Describe the interrelationships of emotional, intellectual, physical, and social health in adolescence.
1.8.3 Analyze how the environment affects personal health.
1.8.4 Describe how family history can affect personal health.
1.8.5 Describe ways to reduce or prevent injuries and other adolescent health problems.
1.8.6 Explain how appropriate health care can promote personal health.
1.8.7 Describe the benefits of and barriers to practicing healthy behaviors.
1.8.8 Examine the likelihood of injury or illness if engaging in unhealthy behaviors.
1.8.9 Examine the potential seriousness of injury or illness if engaging in unhealthy behaviors.

NHES: Standard 2
Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.

Rationale: Health is affected by a variety of positive and negative influences within society. This standard focuses on identifying and understanding the diverse internal and external factors that influence health practices and behaviors among youth, including personal values, beliefs, and perceived norms.

Performance Indicators*—Health Education Standard 2

Pre-K-Grade 2

2.2.1 Identify how the family influences personal health practices and behaviors.
2.2.2 Identify what the school can do to support personal health practices and behaviors.
2.2.3 Describe how the media can influence health behaviors.
  
Grades 3-5

2.5.1 Describe how family influences personal health practices and behaviors.
2.5.2 Identify the influence of culture on health practices and behaviors.
2.5.3 Identify how peers can influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors
2.5.4 Describe how the school and community can support personal health practices and behaviors.
2.5.5 Explain how media influences thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors.
2.5.6 Describe ways that technology can influence personal health.
  
Grades 6-8

2.8.1 Examine how the family influences the health of adolescents.
2.8.2 Describe the influence of culture on health beliefs, practices, and behaviors.
2.8.3 Describe how peers influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.
2.8.4 Analyze how the school and community can affect personal health practices and behaviors.
2.8.5 Analyze how messages from media influence health behaviors.
2.8.6 Analyze the influence of technology on personal and family health.
2.8.7 Explain how the perceptions of norms influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.
2.8.8 Explain the influence of personal values and beliefs on individual health practices and behaviors.
2.8.9 Describe how some health risk behaviors can influence the likelihood of engaging in unhealthy behaviors.
2.8.10 Explain how school and public health policies can influence health promotion and disease prevention.

NHES:  Standard 3
Demonstrate the ability to access valid information, products, and services to enhance health.

Rationale: Access to valid health information and health-promoting products and services is critical in the prevention, early detection, and treatment of health problems. This standard focuses on how to identify and access valid health resources and to reject unproven sources. Application of the skills of analysis, comparison, and evaluation of health resources empowers students to achieve health literacy.

Performance Indicators*—Health Education Standard 3

Pre-K-Grade 2

3.2.1 Identify trusted adults and professionals who can help promote health.
3.2.2 Identify ways to locate school and community health helpers.
  
Grades 3-5

3.5.1 Identify characteristics of valid health information, products, and services.
3.5.2 Locate resources from home, school, and community that provide valid health information.
  
Grades 6-8

3.8.1 Analyze the validity of health information, products, and services.
3.8.2 Access valid health information from home, school, and community.
3.8.3 Determine the accessibility of products that enhance health.
3.8.4 Describe situations that may require professional health services.
3.8.5 Locate valid and reliable health products and services.

NHES:  Standard 4
Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Rationale: Effective communication enhances personal, family, and community health. This standard focuses on how responsible individuals use verbal and non-verbal skills to develop and maintain healthy personal relationships. The ability to organize and to convey information and feelings is the basis for strengthening interpersonal interactions and reducing or avoiding conflict.

Performance Indicators*—Health Education Standard 4

Pre-K-Grade 2

4.2.1 Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings.
4.2.2 Demonstrate listening skills to enhance health.
4.2.3 Demonstrate ways to respond in an unwanted, threatening, or dangerous situation.
4.2.4 Demonstrate ways to tell a trusted adult if threatened or harmed.
  
Grades 3-5

4.5.1 Demonstrate effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health.
4.5.2 Demonstrate refusal skills that avoid or reduce health risks.
4.5.3 Demonstrate nonviolent strategies to manage or resolve conflict.
4.5.4 Demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance personal health.
  
Grades 6-8

4.8.1 Apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health.
4.8.2 Demonstrate refusal and negotiation skills that avoid or reduce health risks.
4.8.3 Demonstrate effective conflict management or resolution strategies.
4.8.4 Demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance the health of self and others.

NHES:  Standard 5
Demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Rationale: Decision-making skills are needed to identify, implement, and sus
tain health-enhancing behaviors. This standard includes the essential steps that are needed to make healthy decisions as prescribed in the performance indicators. When applied to health issues, the decision-making process enables individuals to collaborate with others to improve their quality of life.

Performance Indicators*—Health Education Standard 5

Pre-K-Grade 2

5.2.1 Identify situations when a health-related decision is needed.
5.2.2 Differentiate between situations when a health-related decision can be made individually or when assistance is needed.
  
Grades 3-5

5.5.1 Identify health-related situations that might require a thoughtful decision.
5.5.2 Analyze when assistance is needed in making a health-related decision.
5.5.3 List healthy options to health-related issues or problems.
5.5.4 Predict the potential outcomes of each option when making a health-related decision.
5.5.5 Choose a healthy option when making a decision.
5.5.6 Describe the outcomes of a health-related decision.
  
Grades 6-8

5.8.1 Identify circumstances that can help or hinder healthy decision making.
5.8.2 Determine when health-related situations require the application of a thoughtful decision-making process.
5.8.3 Distinguish when individual or collaborative decision making is appropriate.
5.8.4 Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy alternatives to health-related issues or problems.
5.8.5 Predict the potential short-term impact of each alternative on self and others.
5.8.6 Choose healthy alternatives over unhealthy alternatives when making a decision.
5.8.7 Analyze the outcomes of a health-related decision.
  
NHES: Standard 6
Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

Rationale: Goal-setting skills are essential to help students identify, adopt, and maintain healthy behaviors. This standard includes the critical steps that are needed to achieve both short-term and long-term health goals. These skills make it possible for individuals to have aspirations and plans for the future.

Performance Indicators*—Health Education Standard 6

Pre-K-Grade 2

6.2.1 Identify a short-term personal health goal and take action toward achieving the goal.
6.2.2 Identify who can help when assistance is needed to achieve a personal health goal.
  
Grades 3-5
6.5.1 Set a personal health goal and track progress toward its achievement.
6.5.2 Identify resources to assist in achieving a personal health goal.
  
Grades 6-8
6.8.1 Assess personal health practices.
6.8.2 Develop a goal to adopt, maintain, or improve a personal health practice.
6.8.3 Apply strategies and skills needed to attain a personal health goal.
6.8.4 Describe how personal health goals can vary with changing abilities, priorities, and responsibilities.

NHES: Standard 7
Demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

Rationale: Research confirms that practicing health-enhancing behaviors can contribute to a positive quality of life. In addition, many diseases and injuries can be prevented by reducing harmful and risk-taking behaviors. This standard promotes the acceptance of personal responsibility for health and encourages the practice of healthy behaviors.
Performance Indicators*—Health Education Standard 7
Pre-K-Grade 2

7.2.1 Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors to maintain or improve personal health.
7.2.2 Demonstrate behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks.
  
Grades 3-5

7.5.1 Identify responsible personal health behaviors.
7.5.2 Demonstrate a variety of healthy practices and behaviors to maintain or improve personal health.
7.5.3 Demonstrate a variety of behaviors to avoid or reduce health risks.
  
Grades 6-8

7.8.1 Explain the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health behaviors.
7.8.2 Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors that will maintain or improve the health of self and others.
7.8.3 Demonstrate behaviors to avoid or reduce health risks to self and others.

NHES: Standard 8
Demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.

Rationale: Advocacy skills help students promote healthy norms and healthy behaviors. This standard helps students develop important skills to target their health-enhancing messages and to encourage others to adopt healthy behaviors.

Performance Indicators*—Health Education Standard 8

Pre-K-Grade 2

8.2.1 Make requests to promote personal health.
8.2.2 Encourage peers to make positive health choices.
  
Grades 3-5

8.5.1 Express opinions and give accurate information about health issues.
8.5.2 Encourage others to make positive health choices.
  
Grades 6-8

8.8.1 State a health-enhancing position on a topic and support it with accurate information.
8.8.2 Demonstrate how to influence and support others to make positive health choices.
8.8.3 Work cooperatively to advocate for healthy individuals, families, and schools.
8.8.4 Identify ways in which health messages and communication techniques can be altered for different audiences.
  
(Standards are a direct quote from:  http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/SHER/standards 

Benefits of Choosing an Allied Health Career, by: Erik R. Johnson

 Benefits of Choosing an Allied Health Career
 by:  Erik R. Johnson

         There are many benefits of choosing an allied healthcare career. The professions that make up this field are numerous, and many of them might seem like they don't remotely belong in the same category. Basically, allied health care careers are designated as those professions in the clinical health care field not including those of dentists, medical doctors and nurses. This is a huge portion of the health care industry. In fact, allied healthcare professionals make up approximately 60 percent of the total healthcare workforce in the United States. There is obviously a huge demand for these jobs, but other benefits accompany these career choices as well.

     Health care professionals are highly in demand due to many factors such as the expanding elderly population and increasing specialization of health care practices. By training to provide direct patient care and support services as well as diagnostic, technical and therapeutic services, individuals can enter a fast-paced medical field without the training necessary to become a dentist or doctor. In fact, most of these jobs require much less schooling and training than registered nurses. Some jobs require less than a year of training, while other allied health careers require a few years of schooling and training. In either case, entering an allied health career takes much less time than becoming a dentist, doctor or specialized nurse.

There is no doubt that allied health professionals are critical to the patients they serve and the other health professionals they work with. Because of this, there is always a great demand for allied health workers in towns and cities across the country. And there are loads of allied health careers to choose from! There are allied health jobs in all of the following professional areas:

• Athletic training
• Audiology
• Bioengineering
• Biomedical science
• Clinical psychology
• Diet/nutrition
• Electrocardiogram technology
• Paramedic
• Health administration
• Kinesiotherapy
• Massage
• Medical coding
• Medical interpreting
• Medical labs
• Music therapy
• Nuclear medicine
• Occupational therapy
• Optometry
• Orthotics/prosthetics
• Orthoptics
• Pharmacy
• Phlebotomy
• Physical therapy
• Public health
• Radiography or sonography or ultrasound
• Respiratory therapy
• Speech/language pathology
• Strength/conditioning
• Surgery
• Recreational therapy

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Spotlight on 5 Rewarding Mental Health Careers, By: Noel Rozny

Spotlight on 5 Rewarding Mental Health Careers
By:  Noel Rozny

Think about it: you make time to service your car. You make time to take your pets to the vet. You even make time to clean your house. But how often do you make time to check in on the state of your own mental health?

With health care reform laws expanding coverage for mental health and substance abuse services, more and more Americans will be able to seek the help they need to manage stress, deal with trauma, and improve their lives.

If you want to be one of those professionals who help people look after their mental and emotional health, consider a career in psychology, counseling, or social work. We've broken down five popular mental health careers and their degree requirements to help you get started.

Careers
When you think of mental health, a psychology career most likely comes to mind. Psychologists use their knowledge of the human mind and emotions to help patients deal with a wide range of issues, from serious psychological disorders to addiction and recovery to couples counseling.

How to Start a Psychology Career
Requirements for psychologists vary state to state, but as a minimum, you'll need a Master's degree in psychology to practice. Some states will require you to have a PhD.

Marriage and Family Therapist Careers
The dynamics of husband, wives and their children are unique, which is why marriage and family therapists are a specialized group of mental health workers. They spend their time in school learning how to read and diagnose different family dynamics and treat each family member, not just one individual.

How to Start a Marriage and Family Therapy Career
The majority of marriage and family therapists have a Master's degree in marriage and family therapy.

Guidance Counselor Careers
Growing up isn't easy, which is why guidance counselors are hired by elementary, middle and high schools to help children and young adults throughout their educational careers. Guidance counselors make sure students are progressing mentally and emotionally, and will even assist during the college and career decision-making process.

How to Start a Guidance Counselor Career
Guidance counselors will need a Master's degree in counseling to get started.

Rehabilitation Counselor Careers

Those who have physical, emotional or psychological disabilities need a unique kind of counseling. Rehabilitation counselors fill this need, using their skills to improve their quality of life and helping them live as independently as possible.

How to Start a Rehabilitation Career

Like the careers listed above, rehabilitation counselors need to have a Master's degree in counseling or a related field.

Social Work Careers

Some of society's toughest problems-child abuse, spousal abuse, homelessness, poverty, truancy-often go hand in hand. It's the responsibility of social workers to help the men, women and children who are trapped in this complicated web of issues.

How to Start a Social Work Career

Social Workers need a master's degree in social work to get started, and they generally also have a bachelor's degree in psychology or a related field.

For more information on these careers and correlating degree programs, visit this health services career profiles page.

Noel Rozny writes the bi-weekly career blog mypathfinder for the myFootpath website. myFootpath is a resource to help you in your search for a college, degree program, career, graduate school, and non-traditional experiences. Visit www.myfootpath.com to start your college or degree program search. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Noel_Rozny

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KidMedic: "Today's Kids, Tomorrow's Medics": Now only $10.00: "Mrs. Garcia's Class Visits the ...

KidMedic: "Today's Kids, Tomorrow's Medics": Now only $10.00: "Mrs. Garcia's Class Visits the ...: "Have you purchased your copy of 'Mrs. Garcia's Class Visits the Hospital'? You will now be able to purchase your copy of the book for a the..."

Now only $10.00: "Mrs. Garcia's Class Visits the Hospital," New Lower Price!

Have you purchased your copy of "Mrs. Garcia's Class Visits the Hospital"?  You will now be able to purchase your copy of the book for a the new low price of only $10.00!  Why the new low price?  As KidMedic seeks to expand, we have been working with a new printer to help reduce costs.  Reduced costs to us means reduced prices for our customers.  Over the next two months I plan to rerelease, "Mrs. Garcia's Class Visits the Hospital," in a smaller version published under the KidMedic name.  In order to celebrate the re-release of my book, I will be selling the 8 1/2 x 11 edition for only $10.00!

Mrs. Garcia's Class Visits the Hospital
Written by:  Kristy Taylor
Illustrated by: Ivy Marie Apa
Xlibris Publishing, Inc., 2011

Ages 8-13

Paperback ISBN# 978-1-4568-7050-8

About:  Mrs. Garcia's Class Visits the Hospital is the first book written by author and former elementary teacher, Kristy Taylor.  The book is an exciting career day adventure with a diverse group of characters where the students in Mrs. Garcia's class visit the local hospital for their class field trip.  While touring the hospital with Mrs. Garcia and Dr. Johnson as their guides, the students learn about over twenty different healthcare careers, and they have lots of fun along the way! 

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