Life Skills Program

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Descriptor: Culturally relevant, youth appropriate health education and youth development activities for low income, ethnically diverse adolescents at Sequoia High School.

by Training and Health Education Center for Youth

What it is: Life Skills trains peer educators to conduct creative health education to cohorts of similar age at Sequoia High School. Peer educators have access to engaging guided health activities in the effort to combat obesity among youth. Recent surveys of the student population identified significant unhealthy behaviors such as alcohol and drug use. Students themselves indicated the need for drug and alcohol abuse prevention education. A focus of the program will be the value of nutrition and exercise for the prevention of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Tip: For Community Health Tip from Training and Health Education Center for Youth
There are many opportunities to get screened for diabetes, and many are free. Everyone older than 35 who is overweight, doesn’t exercise regularly and has either a family history or gestational history of diabetes should get a screening today.

Visit Training and Health Education Center for Youth website at http://www.theyouth.org