Public Outreach
Educational materials
Project Heads Up was supported by KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital to design and distribute leaflets and posters regarding screen use in their paediatrics and antenatal wards. In the materials, subjects touched on include recommendations for healthy purposes and durations for use of screen time and positive family bonding activities as an alternative to screen time.
Available in both English and Chinese, these leaflets found around KKH are free for the public to bring home. If you would like to view the softcopy version, click here.
Webinar
About the event
On 21st August 2021, Project Heads Up hosted a webinar supported by KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Our speaker, mentor to the project, was Adjunct Assistant Professor Mae Wong. In the webinar, she weighed the positive and negative effects screen time has on children, provided guidelines to screen usage and offered practical and achievable guidelines to regulating screen time in children.
The webinar attracted over 80 parents who came with plenty of questions pertaining to the topic. Presently, it has garnered close to 400 online views, with the count continuing to rise. Click here to watch the recording of the webinar and learn what was discussed together.
Summary of video
“As screen use has become part of daily life, poor screen use habits can have a detrimental effect on the development and psychosocial well-being of children. Parents play an integral role in setting healthy screen use habits in the home environment and family lifestyle. Adjunct Assistant Professor Mae Wong, Senior Consultant at the Department of Child Development, KKH, shares practical information for parents to establish healthy screen use habits with young children, and recommended replacement activities to support their health and development.”
Survey findings and conclusion of event
Pre-webinar and post-webinar surveys were distributed and compared to assess the effectiveness of the webinar. From the results, Project Heads Up is heartened to report that participants are generally more confident in the following aspects:
Limiting child from excessive screen use
Ensuring proper use of mobile device during periods of exposure
Ability to curb bad habits in children regarding screen use
Finding alternative activities for children to participate in to reduce screen time
Social media campaign
Did you know, you can find Project Heads Up on Instagram and Facebook? We make use of the platforms to spread awareness of our cause, publicise our events and conduct our educational campaigns!
Our social media introduces to you a wide breadth of topics regarding the issue of screen use, with alternatives and even concrete examples on how to turn Screen Use into a beneficial activity instead! Project Heads Up also teamed up with Shirleen from @thelearningplaybook for a series of posts where she explains to us the relationship between children throwing tantrums and confiscation of their screens. Parents or caregivers facing this, if you empathise with this struggle then this series on our social media is something you do not want to miss!
The team is extremely satisfied with the rich content produced for our social media campaign - we are confident and excited that the campaign is informative and will help parents and caregivers to better tackle this issue of screen use for their children’s benefit!
If you enjoyed our social media campaign and would like to see more, or have topics you would LOVE for us to explore, feel free to reach out to us on our Contact us page! Let us know your thoughts and our team at Project Heads Up will get to work!