Elizabeth Sanders Selected to serve as State 4-H Health Rocks! Teen Leader

DeKalb County 4-H Member Elizabeth Sanders has been selected to serve as a state 4-H Health Rocks! teen leader!
In this role Elizabeth will be assisting the state 4-H office in training counties across the state to implement the Health Rocks! program. Health Rocks! is a healthy-living curriculum taught in many counties statewide where the emphasis is on resisting peer pressure to try illegal drugs, alcohol and tobacco. Emphasis is also placed on making wise choices. DeKalb County received funding for this program two years ago and with the assistance of guidance counselors at DeKalb Middle School, Northside Elementary, and DeKalb West Elementary, was provided to all students in 4th – 8th grades. DeKalb County received the grant again for 2012. With the assistance of her Extension Agent April Martin, Elizabeth plans to lead an after-school Health Rocks program at these schools again beginning in February.
4-H is the youth development program of UT Extension. 4-H teaches leadership, citizenship and life skills to more than 300,000 youth in grades 4-12. 4-H also has more than 18,000 adult volunteers statewide.
UT Extension operates in each of Tennessee’s 95 counties as the off-campus division of the UT Institute of Agriculture. An educational and outreach organization funded by federal, state and local governments, UT Extension, in cooperation with Tennessee State University, brings research-based information about agriculture, family and consumer sciences, and youth and community development to the people of Tennessee where they live and work.