Coordinated School Health offers spring training opportunities

The department’s Coordinated School Health Program will offer two training opportunities this spring.

• DDN Series, “Current Topics: School Health,” is an eight-class series starting Feb. 28 and ending April 25. Topics cover a range of school health issues including Meth 101, Mental Health Issues, Health & PE Standards, and more.  Twenty DDN sites across South Dakota will host this series. Registration is currently open at www.southdakotapd.com. The course is sponsored by the Departments of Education and Health, and Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center. Contact Beth Davis, (605) 773-6808, or April Hodges, (605) 773-6898, for more information.

• LifeSkills Training is a proven, highly effective substance abuse prevention program. It is designed to: provide students with the necessary skills to resist social pressures to smoke, drink and use drugs; help them develop greater self-esteem, self-mastery and self-confidence; enable children to effectively cope with social anxiety; and to increase their knowledge of the immediate consequences of substance abuse. This course is sponsored by the Departments of Human Services, Health and Education, the Prevention Resource Centers, Volunteers of America Dakotas, and Youth & Family Services. Courses are scheduled for Feb. 23-24 in Chamberlain (SD Hall of Fame) and March 7-8 in Sioux Falls (Volunteers of America). Contact the Northeast Prevention Resource Center at (605) 884-3524 for more information. Visit www.humanserviceagency.org/neprc.htm and click on “Life Skills” at the bottom of the page.

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