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More Health offers free in-class safety lessons to Pasco-area students, executive director says
Summary
More Health, a 35-year-old nonprofit, delivers free, standards-aligned health and safety lessons in Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties and says hands-on visuals and one-class-at-a-time sessions help students retain safety behaviors; scheduling is by phone or email and lessons are sponsored.
More Health, a nonprofit that has taught health and safety to schoolchildren for about 35 years, is offering free, in-class lessons across the Tampa Bay region and is partnering with Pasco County Schools to make those lessons count toward state standards, the organization’s executive director said in a studio interview.
"I see the difference we're making in the lives of children every day," said Karen Buckenheimer, executive director of More Health. Buckenheimer described lessons that bring large visuals and hands-on activities into regular classrooms rather than via assemblies, allowing students to practice behaviors such as proper…
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