Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
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Seven New Rockford-Sheyenne teachers took part in the N.D. Roughrider "35" Health Promotion Conference on June 1 - 4 in Medora, N.D. Pictured from left to right: Amy Cudworth, Whitney Burkhardsmeier, Erin Radke, Lexi Ystaas, Jessie Schafer, Cherry Heinz and Amanda Koepplin.
Several educators and community members from the local area learned how to promote school, community and personal healthy lifestyle concepts at the 35th annual N.D. Roughrider Health Promotion Conference, June 1 - June 4, 2021 in Medora, North Dakota.
Erin Radke, Whit Burkhardsmeier, Amy Cudworth, Jessie Schafer, Lexi Ystaas, Cherry Heinz and Amanda Koepplin were seven of the 125 participants registered. Schools and communities from across the state sent representatives to evaluate their school health and community programs, and to develop action plans for making improvements. Various sessions offered were based on the components of Coordinated School Health including health education, physical education, health services, nutrition services, counseling, psychological, social services, healthy school environment, health promotion for staff, and family/community involvement. Additional topics included substance use prevention, character education, violence/bullying prevention, chronic disease prevention and professional development.
The keynote presenters included: "Mark Mayfield -"Humor Me; The Healing Power of Perspective" and Holly Hoffman -"Lead Simply".
For more information, please visit http://www.ndroughrider.com
