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University of Kentucky27s I Champion Health outlines community-centered youth substance-use prevention for Fayette County
Summary
I Champion Health, a University of Kentucky initiative, described a community-engaged youth and family prevention program for Fayette County, highlighted school lessons aligned with state standards, and said current funding will end in December.
Mindy Ickes, a health-promotion professor and associate dean of research at the University of Kentucky College of Education, told the commission that I Champion Health is a two-year, community-centered initiative focused on youth and family substance-use prevention in Fayette County.
Ickes said the program grew out of state Office of Health Equity funding that originally supported COVID-19 vaccine work and has shifted toward prevention based on community feedback. "I'm Mindy Ickes. I'm a health promotion professor in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky," she said.
The program has three principal elements: community listening and engagement through local "community health champions," youth lessons aligned with national and Kentucky health-education…
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