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Describes an event organized by the Health Education Authority′s Best of Health project team, which took place at Crewe+Alsager Faculty of the Manchester Metropolitan University in spring 1994. The Best of Health project aims to raise awareness, in primary school teachers and those training to be teachers, of the opportunities for providing health education in schools. Summarizes the events of the day, explains how staff at the college prepared students to get the most out of the day, and how education staff planned follow‐up work on cross‐curricular ways of teaching health education.

.. And from my standpoint as a black American, as far as I'm concerned, it is a high‐tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured, by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree. (Clarence Thomas)

Sexual violence prevention programs on college campuses have proliferated in recent years. While research has also increased, a number of questions remain unanswered that could assist campus administrators in making evidence-based decisions about implementation of prevention efforts. To that end, the field of prevention science has highlighted the need to examine the utility of booster sessions for enhancing prevention education. The purpose of this paper is to examine how two methods of prevention delivery – small group educational workshops and a community-wide social marketing campaign (SMC) – worked separately and together to promote attitude change related to sexual violence among college students.

The two-part study was conducted at two universities. Participants were from successive cohorts of first year students and randomly assigned to participate in a bystander based in-person sexual violence prevention program or a control group. Participants were later exposed to a bystander based sexual violence prevention SMC either before or after a follow-up survey. Analyses investigated if attitudes varied by exposure group (program only, SMC only, both program and SMC, no prevention exposure).

Results revealed benefits of the SMC as a booster for attitude changes related to being an active bystander to prevent sexual violence. Further, students who first participated in the program showed enhanced attitude effects related to the SMC.

This is the first study to look at the combination of effects of different sexual violence prevention tools on student attitudes. It also showcases a method for how to investigate if prevention tools work separately and together.

Recently the British Egg Information service launched the Young Chef's Egg Recipe Book which is shown below. This booklet is attractively produced and is packed full of information and tips to encourage young children to start cooking. Anyone who would like a copy should send 50p to the address given on page 22. Not only does the recipient have a good booklet which could keep young children busily occupied, but the 50p sent to the Egg Information Service will be donated to Save the Children to help support their Children's Nutrition Centre in Honduras.