Project Happier : Final Report of Survey Results : Migrant Family Survey
Author: Trotter, Robert T.
Date Published: 1984
Project HAPPIER (Health Awareness Patterns Preventing Illnesses and Encouraging Responsibility) is a grant funded through the United States Department of Education (143c) discretionary funds. The project is an attempt to coordinate intra/interstate and intra/interagency efforts to disseminate curriculum units on health promotion/disease prevention for migrant children. The project has assembled a consortium of representatives from State Departments of Education, State Health Departments, health care delivery experts, plus key individuals from federal programs responsible for both migrant health and migrant education. The goal of the consortium is to aid Pennsylvania's Migrant Education staff and project personnel develop a resource guide for migrant children from pre-kindergarten to grade 12. These units will be available for use by teachers, health personnel, and parents (in any instructional setting). In order to direct its curriculum units at critical health issues facing the migrant population, Project HAPPIER conducted two surveys. One survey was directed at the providers of health and education services for migrants. The other collected data from the migrants themselves. These surveys focused on the general health status of migrants and their needs further health information. Together these surveys provide an excellent data base for developing health education curricula covering all of the major health education needs of migrants. They assure that the information which will be provided to migrants is not only information that they need to know, but also information that they want to know. Attention and retention of information are normally driven by interest. Therefore, the combined data of the two surveys assures that the Project HAPPIER curricular elements will not only be accurate and useful from an institutional viewpoint, but will also be retained and used by their intended audience.
Date Published: 1984
Project HAPPIER (Health Awareness Patterns Preventing Illnesses and Encouraging Responsibility) is a grant funded through the United States Department of Education (143c) discretionary funds. The project is an attempt to coordinate intra/interstate and intra/interagency efforts to disseminate curriculum units on health promotion/disease prevention for migrant children. The project has assembled a consortium of representatives from State Departments of Education, State Health Departments, health care delivery experts, plus key individuals from federal programs responsible for both migrant health and migrant education. The goal of the consortium is to aid Pennsylvania's Migrant Education staff and project personnel develop a resource guide for migrant children from pre-kindergarten to grade 12. These units will be available for use by teachers, health personnel, and parents (in any instructional setting). In order to direct its curriculum units at critical health issues facing the migrant population, Project HAPPIER conducted two surveys. One survey was directed at the providers of health and education services for migrants. The other collected data from the migrants themselves. These surveys focused on the general health status of migrants and their needs further health information. Together these surveys provide an excellent data base for developing health education curricula covering all of the major health education needs of migrants. They assure that the information which will be provided to migrants is not only information that they need to know, but also information that they want to know. Attention and retention of information are normally driven by interest. Therefore, the combined data of the two surveys assures that the Project HAPPIER curricular elements will not only be accurate and useful from an institutional viewpoint, but will also be retained and used by their intended audience.
