Grade 3/4 students at Hebbville Academy in Bridgewater are using an #UpLift Student Action Grant to purchase 22 new bikes for their school! Check out this awesome video they made for our youth engagem... Grade 3/4 students at Hebbville Academy in Bridgewater are using an #UpLift Student Action Grant to purchase 22 new bikes for their school! Check out this awesome video they made for our youth...

One of our early projects with #UpLiftNS (www.upliftns.ca) was with a school there. They bought bikes in 2020 & still use them to ride the trails & report any maintenance issues on them. A small grant of $5k had so much impact & continues to do so! www.facebook.com/upliftns/vid...

🚨New publication🚨 on the process of student engagement in #HealthPromotingSchools. Exploring the work of Youth Engagement Coordinators funded through #UpLiftNS. Led by newly minted PhD @juliakontak.bsky.social who is convocating today! www.emerald.com/he/article-p... #HPRO #SchoolHealth

Image of a presentation on screen in a classroom. There are 5 people standing in front of the presentation. They are all smiling at the camera. The occasion is a PhD defence with the candidate and committee shown in the photo.

What a star @juliakontak.bsky.social is! Excellent defence performance + no revisions! Her @dalhealth.bsky.social PhD thesis unpacked the process of student engagement #HealthPromotingSchools had 5 manuscripts, 3 already published. I could not be prouder of her achievements #DalProud #UpLiftNS

Partnership between UpLift and Public Health sees continued funding allocated for Youth Engagement Coordinators | Nova Scotia Health HALIFAX, N.S. – Representing a key outcome of the UpLift Partnership, Nova Scotia Health Public Health has announced continued funding for eight Youth Engagement Coordinator positions along with one p...

Hot off the press - the culmination of 6 years of work, partnership and collaboration to support the health and learning of school-aged children and youth in #NovaScotia! My ❤️ is full. #HealthPromotingSchools #SchoolHealth #UpLiftNS www.nshealth.ca/news-and-not...

A close up image of a wooden table top with a wicker basket containing black pens and a card with suggestions on centering youth voice in conversations. There are name tags on the table with the words "UpLifting Health Promoting Schools Summit" written on them and "hello, my name is...". There are some stickers in the foreground to decorate the badges with. The event is a youth summit celebrating student actions to creat healthier school communities

It's been a big day today with the #UpLiftingHPS summit happening - celebrating youth engagement in Health Promoting Schools through #UpLiftNS. The students who attended were so engaging! I say it often but when we give young people voice they make magic happen! www.upliftns.ca

Creating Supportive Environments for Chronic Disease Prevention with Dr. Sara Kirk - CKDU Podcasts Meet Dr. Sara Kirk! A professor of health promotion in the School of Health and Human Performance, and the Scientific […]

I was a guest on the #DalhousieU, student-run podcast, called Mind: The Gap. I share about my research on supportive environments, the work of #UpLiftNS & the joy I feel when I get to see kids cycling the streets during #KidicalMassHFX podcasts.ckdu.ca/2024/04/19/m...

Frontiers | Development and implementation of a municipal outdoor play policy for children and youth in Nova Scotia, Canada: a community case study <p><bold>Background:</bold> Children and youth benefit from outdoor play; however, environments and policies to support outdoor play are often limited. The p...

Our new paper describes the process of developing municipal policy to support outdoor play in a Nova Scotia community. With @caldwellhilary.bsky.social & others from the #UpLiftNS team. Out now in Frontiers in Public Health and #OpenAccess www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...