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National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day |
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National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day
(Awareness Day) is a day for communities to
promote positive youth development, resilience,
recovery, and the transformation of mental
health services delivery for children and youth
with serious mental health needs and their
families. Awareness Day raises awareness of
effective programs for children's mental health
needs, demonstrates how children's mental health
initiatives promote positive youth development,
recovery and resilience, and shows how children
with mental health needs thrive in their
communities. Awareness Day will be held on
Thursday, May 8th, 2008. The theme for this
year's national event is Thriving in the
Community, with a special emphasis on high
school youth who receive the services they need
are more likely to have positive outcomes such
as better grades and higher rates of education
and less likely to have negative outcomes such
as involvement with the juvenile and criminal
justice systems.
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Power Panther Tour—Sign Up Today! |
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The
Power Panther will be touring South Dakota from
the middle of August until the middle of
October. He will stop at schools, outside school
time programs and child care agencies to
encourage children to Eat Smart. Play Hard., and
Move More. Sit Less. The Power Panther Tour is
part of the Team Nutrition grant that CANS
received from USDA. CANS staff and South Dakota
State University Cooperative Extension staff
will travel with the Power Panther costume and
provide a 15-20 minute assembly program to
promote eating smart and playing hard aimed at
children from preschool age to elementary school
age, or just visit your school during the
breakfast or lunch period. The Power Panther
especially appeals to young children up to about
3rd grade. To sign up for a visit from the Power
Panther, please complete the one page
registration form on our website at
http://www.doe.sd.gov/oess/cans/nutrition/index.asp
and mail or fax it to us at the address provided
on the form. |
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