Health Education Profession Needs

The Health Education Profession has
1. CHES and NCHEC
2. Great Programs throughout the US
3. Great professional organizations

The Health Education Profession NEEDS:
1. Registration, in addition to, or as a result of, CHES
2. Better programs who FIGHT for their turf.
For example:
- Why are some Health Education Academic Programs allowing Home Ec to teach sexuality?
- Why do some Health Education Academic Programs allow PE to drive their program, when the PE professionals have little or no idea about the profession (ask them to define PRECEDE/PROCEED - the language of Health Ed-)!?
3. One unifying professional organization with the existing organization dropping their turf protection to protect the profession.
- For the "profession" to truly become a "profession," SOPHE, AAHE and other society's and groups must MERGE, or support the development of a mother ship, an"AMA of Health Education," with their own group/association becoming a sub part of the mother ship.
- What has to happen to make this happen: board members must truly believe and act on EMPOWERMENT, empowering the profession, and a unifying vision of the profession, as opposed to their TENURE aspirations, their myopic agendas, and/or their personal vision.

Michael