Healthy Champions Newsletter

Recipes

September's Harvest of the Month is peppers. Peppers can be classified into bell peppers (mild and sweet) or chili peppers (hot and pungent). They come in a wide variety of colors like green, red, yellow, orange, purple, brown, and black. Enjoy these recipes with peppers to add some sweetness or spice to your meal.

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Better Breakfast Month

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day every month but September is Better Breakfast Month! Kick off the return to school with these resources to make breakfast delicious and healthy:

National Suicide Prevention Month

Suicide Prevention Month aims to raise awareness for resources to help prevent suicide and discuss the stigmas around mental health. Suicide is the 11^thleading cause of death in the U.S., with over 1.70 million suicide attempts in 2021. Since October, 2020, the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline number is 988, a line to connect those in crisis to mental health professionals.

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Healthy Champions Enrollment

2023/2024 Healthy Champions enrollment is still open! All Pennsylvania schools – public and private, K-12 can enroll for FREE! Penn State PRO Wellness provides enrolled schools with FREE health education materials to teach youth and their families to bring healthier choices to life.

PA Youth Addiction Prevention Summit

Join Color & Culture on Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023 at York College for the First Annual Pennsylvania Youth Addiction Prevention Summit (PA YAPS). This one-day event is for young people (ages 14-18) to discuss the current trends related to addiction and substance use in a safe and honest atmosphere. PA YAPS will include discussions about drug addiction, social media, gaming, and gambling addiction and the health and mental health consequences, as well as workshops for building refusal skills, and creating a life with meaning and purpose. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to attend, and will have a separate set of workshops.

The activities will be designed and facilitated by prevention specialists, youth empowerment professionals, behavior change and addiction scientists and experts in parent-child communications. This event is supported by the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the American Lung Association.

For questions, please contact Morgan Roddy at mroddy@latinoconnection.org.

The Year Ahead

Thank you for your continued engagement with the Healthy Champions Program. We are proud to offer this educational information for schools and families throughout our communities. During the upcoming year, we will be exploring new opportunities to engage in our communities and provide this important health and wellness content. As always, we welcome your feedback at PROWellness@pennstatehealth.psu.edu as we explore new communication methods.

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