Advocacy

Advocacy document

In the early genesis of Project Heads Up, the team drafted an advocacy document addressing potential improvements to existing national healthy policies. 

The advocacy document posits the exacerbated use of screen time from the accentuated reliance on technology following the incidence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Project Heads Up calls upon both healthcare (Government Agencies and Healthcare Professionals) and non-healthcare (Educational) institutions to engage in screen use guideline promotions. A wide breadth of support from the aforementioned bodies of institutions will ensure parents, caregivers or other stakeholders’ abilities to effectively manage screen time of children. 

Project Heads Up has presented and discussed our advocacy document with various institutions in Singapore, such as the Health Promotion Board (HPB), KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, National University Hospital, Singapore College of Paediatric and Child Health, and Singapore Paediatrics Society. Further talks are now underway with these organisations to advance collaborations regarding screen use.

To read more about our advocacy document discussion, please click here.