Table 2 Milestones of development and implementation of accreditation in Chandigarh

1

August, 2008

Stakeholders’ workshop for Health Promoting Schools (HPS) was held at Chandigarh with following objectives:

• Sensitization

• Brainstorming

• Discussion on HPS concept

2

October, 2009

A one day Workshop on HPS by School Health Programme, Chandigarh Administration to

• Introduce the concept of Health Promotion in the schools.

• 38 participants from 30 schools including District Education Officer (DEO) participated.

• Lectures and group discussions were conducted.

3

August, 2010

A meeting was organized by Director Health Services, Chandigarh with key stakeholders including education department to initiate the process to select the schools on pilot basis for development of accreditation process.

4

October, 2010

A meeting of the representatives of Health department, investigators and Quality Council of India was held to discuss the development of draft accreditation process of schools.

5

Phase I: Development of Accreditation (April, 2011- May, 2012)

‘Development of a model for accreditation of school as Health Promoting schools in Union Territory, Chandigarh’ was supported by WHO Country Office for India and its implementation was initiated.

• A workshop on Health Promoting Schools was organized by School Health Programme, Chandigarh Administration

-Representatives from 17 willing schools (8 govt. and 9 private) participated.

-Draft manual of Accreditation was discussed and finalized.

• Baseline information on health promoting schools was collected from the participating schools.

• 15 follow-up and reinforcement meetings with participating schools were organized by School Health Program, Chandigarh Administration.

• Based on inputs and experience from schools, a manual of accreditation for Health Promoting Schools was finalized.

• The manual of accreditation for Health Promoting Schools (HPS) was released by Governor of Punjab.

• Key partners’ meeting from Education, Health and Finance department, Chandigarh Administration; Quality Council of India and School Health Program was held for implementation of accreditation.

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Phase 2: Implementation of accreditation (2012–2013)

• The implementation started in 17 schools volunteered for implementation.

• The schools made their plan of action, implemented and monitored with regular self-appraisal.

• Technical support by School Health Program and investigators, on periodic basis.

• A post-assessment in 17 schools was done.

• The pre-post assessment in schools was analyzed and compared.