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ND – Educators and community members from the area learned how to promote school, community and personal healthy lifestyle concepts at the 29th annual Roughrider Health Promotion Conference earlier this month in Medora, North Dakota.

Maple Valley High School educators Brett Kapaun (English), Cindy Kapaun (Library/Counselor Designate), Alecia Killoran (Math) and Dolores Manson (Career Development/HS Counselor) were four of the 200 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.

Sessions were based on the components of Coordinated School Health including health education, physical education, health services, nutrition services, counseling, psychological and 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 speakers included legendary presenter Dr. Jo Owens-Nausler with health education reform, and Michelle Wall with the Dale Carnegie foundation with her message on creating an engaged workforce. The Maple Valley team will be presenting their action plan to the school board in June.