Location:
Cherokee Health Delivery Building
Scope of Work: Health Cherokee promotes
health education, substance abuse prevention education,
health promotion, and injury prevention education to the
local elementary school and high school, worksites, child
care centers, recreation centers, as will as individual
communities. Programs offered include: Junaluska Leadership,
Encephalitis Education, Proper Hand washing education, Smoking
Prevention, Teens as Smoking Prevention Educators, etc.
Activities include: Easter, SAFE KIDS Trick-or-Treat Night,
Red Ribbon Week, and the Great American Smokeout, Drugged
and Drunk Driving Awareness Month, Prom Promise, Annual
Health & Safety Day at the Cherokee Indian Fair, Bug
Spray Stations.
Contact:
Radonna Crowe, Program Coordinator 497-7470
Sherry Crowe, Community Coordinator 497-7470 ext. 2962
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Phone Numbers
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2003 Accomplishments:
- Began 6th grade smoking prevention education.
- 6th graders served as peer educators for K-2 for smoking
prevention.
- All local child care centers received encephalitis
education.
- Prom Promise activities were held the entire week of
the prom and we made the front page of the One Feather.
- More people utilized the Bug Spray Station at the Varsity
Football games than ever before.
- Held the 2nd Annual Stadium Clean-up with more participants
that last year.
- Sherry enrolled in United Tribes Technical College
majoring in Injury Prevention.
- Received 10,000 from I H S to purchase safety equipment.
- Received 1,800 from the American Legacy Foundation
to conduct tobacco prevention programs for youth.
- Sherry presented at the Health & Safety Baby Shower
for the first time.
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