Healthy Living Program

The Healthy Living Program provides free health education for children and adult audiences.  Experienced health educators facilitate presentations covering a variety of topics including, but not limited to:

• Healthy Eating and Active Lifestyles
  • Fruits & Veggies: More Matters (Elementary)
    • Balanced diet, implementing more fruits & vegetables
  • Nutrition Voyage (Middle School & High School)
    • Fruit and Vegetable Education
    • Healthy Decision Making
    • Dietary Guidelines
    • Body Image
    • Caloric Balance
  • Healthy Eating Habits and Other Disease (High School, College, Adults, Seniors)
    • Cholesterol and Blood Pressure
    • Stroke Awareness
    • Diabetes
    • Eye Health
    • Sugar…How Sweet is It?
    • Preservatives, Food Color, Dyes and More
    • Artificial Sweeteners; and Energy Drinks.
  • Social and Emotional Life Skills/Health
    • Healthy Relationships (Elementary, Middle School, High School, College)
      • Decision Making
      • Assertive Communications Skill Development
      • Conflict Resolution
      • Promoting Positive Behavior
    • Puberty Education: “What Changes?”  (4^th grade through Middle School)
      • Reproductive system information
      • Personal Hygiene,
      • Promoting Positive Decisions During Puberty
    • STI Prevention (Middle School, High School, College, Adult)
      • Sexually Transmitted Infections
      • Preventative Health
      • Responsible Decision Making
      • Refusal Skills
    • Baby Think it Over (Middle School, High School, College, Adults)
      • Infant Simulator,
      • Delaying Decisions for Becoming a Parent
      • Family Budgeting
    • Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Prevention
      • Drugs: That’s Scary!  (Elementary)
        • Over the Counter Medications & Prescription Drugs
        • Medicine Safety
        • Benefits of Staying Drug Free,
        • Anatomy of the Brain
        • What is addiction?
      • Stand Up Against Smoking (Upper elementary, Middle School)
        • Tobacco & Marijuana Prevention Education
        • Refusal Skills
        • Benefits of Staying Drug Free,
        • Where Do I Get HELP?
      • Be Alert…Stay Alert (Middle & High School, Adults)
        • Benefits of Being and Staying Drug Free,
        • Where Do I Get HELP?
        • How to Respond to Friends and Family Who Use Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
        • Refusal Skills,
        • Addiction (a real disease)
        • A Parent Program…What Parents Need to Know?
        • Resources… How to Guide Students to Healthy Choices.

***Health educators provide the programs directly at the school or community organization with no travel costs.  Program times vary from 30 to 90 minutes.