Several educators and community members from the local area learned how to promote school, community and personal healthy lifestyle concepts at the 36th annual ND Roughrider Health Promotion Conference, May 31 - June 3, 2022 in Medora, North Dakota.
Mr. Mark Zastoupil, Mr. Lou Dobitz, Mr. Cole Bilbrey, Mrs. Julie Carlson, Mrs. Kari Schneider, and Ms. Skyler Niebuhr were six of the 150 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:
“Stuart Meyers – “UNSTOPPABLE LEADERS”
and
Candy Whirly - “It Takes 2 to Tango”
For more information, please visit www.ndroughrider.com
