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Past Press Release February 1, 2000 Ripple Effects Software Wins Prestigious National Health Award San Francisco, CA - Ripple Effects for Teens, a multimedia health education program, won "Best of Show" last Thursday at the Healthy People 2010 Technology Games, the nation's premier competition for developers of interactive health applications "Ripple Effects for Teens is exciting - it's comprehensive, accessible to non-readers, based on sound theory, and includes outcome evaluations," said Martin Fishbein, Ph.D. a Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at University of Pennsylvania, in announcing the award. The Partnerships for Health conference and the Partnerships 2000 Technology Games, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, launched the nation's Healthy People 2010, a national health promotion and disease prevention initiative. "The Healthy People initiative has defined the nation's health agenda for the last two decades. It identifies the most significant opportunities to improve health and focuses public and private sector efforts on those areas," says Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Ripple Effects for Teens is a comprehensive CD-ROM and web-based multimedia health education and prevention program that covers more than 320+ health issues, and helps students build the social-emotional skills research has shown to be most effective at reducing youth involvement in unhealthy behaviors. This is the fifth national award for Ripple Effects for Teens, which has also received a Technology & Learning Software Award of Excellence, a National Educational Media Network Silver Apple, a Cindy Award for Guidance, Values, and Career Information, and a Creative Summit Award for Educational Software.
"Building public-private partnerships is the foundation of Healthy
People's success. We enter the new millennium as a team working together.
Through prevention we can improve the health of all Americans,"
said Dr. David Satcher, Surgeon General and Assistant Secretary for
Health. To find out more about Relate, visit the Ripple Effects web site at www.rippleeffects.com. Or call Ripple Effects toll free at (888) 259-6618. |
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