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The goal of the Wesley House applying for this grant is to educate our students and their families of the health problems that are attacking the African American in Omaha. Below I have listed a curriculum list that we have already started to implement with our students. Right now we do not have the funding to carry out many of the lessons that I have created. I know that it is imperative to educate these students while they are young so that they will grow up with healthy habits.

Wesley House Healthly Households Curriculum

1) Personal Care
- Dental Health
- Puberty
- Big Decisions
- Teen Pregnancy
- Family Genes & Your Future
- Deadly Desires
- Beauty
- Eating Disorders
- Germs/ Hand washing
- Dressing for Seasons
- Taking care on Hair & Skin

2.) Nutrition
- Low Fat foods
- Ingredient Snack Hunt
- Recovering from bad eating
- How to read Nutrition Facts
- Organic Foods
- Healthy Snacks
- Eat right, Stay Fit
- Nutrition Goals
- Salad Party
- How Foods Affect How You Feel
- Healthy Food Collage
- How do you tell a Fruit from a Vegetable
- Play Restaurant (Planning a Healthy Menu)
- Food Pyramid Bingo
- Healthy Food/Eater want ads
- Sugar For Breakfast?

3.) Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs
- Smoking
- Addiction & Cycle of Addiction
- Alcohol = Slurred Speech and Delayed Reactions
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- Most Smokers wish they Hadn’t Started
- Road to Recovery
- Peer Pressure “ The Pressure is On!”

4.) Cancer
- Types of Cancer
- Causes of Cancer
- What is Cancer?
- Cancer and my Family Tree
- Cures for Cancer
- How Cancer affects the body
- Most common types of cancer
- How to Help Prevent Cancer

5.) First Aid
- Cuts
- Burns
- Bruises
- Band-Aids
- Head Injury
- Broken Bones
- Colds/ Flu
- Medication
- 911
- Poison
- Rashes

6.) Body Systems
- Pathogen attack
- Digestive System
- Cardiovascular Fitness
- Bones
- Hair, eyes & mouth
- Brain
- Respiratory System
- Pumping Blood

7.) Physical Education
- Jump Rope Activities
- Soccer/ Football Activities
- Warm up Activities
- Fitness Activities
- Cardio Activities
- B-Ball
- Hula Hoop
- Parachute Activities
- Bean Bag Activities

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Obesity has become an epidemic in the United States. I, myself, have been affected by it. I am over weight, but I'm changing. Since researching how fatal being over weight is, I have decided to turn my life around. By eating better, working out, and setting myself in a good environment of people to support me. I believe that people, especially teenage girls out in the world need to know that just because they're not a size 2, doesn't mean they aren't beautiful, but if they are fatally over weight, then I want them to know that by changing a few habits, then they could change their entire life for the best! I know that if I was given this support 2 years ago, I wouldn't be at the weight I am today, but without going through my painful days waking up and not fitting into my jeans, has made me realize that we take our bodies for granted, and that we need to do whatever we can to make sure we are healthy and that we can live a great and active life, and have fun while doing it!

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Human trade and the buying and selling of people are not issues that echo a brutal and distant time in our past. Countless women, men, and children around the world suffer in silence in slave-like situations of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor from which they cannot free themselves. Trafficking in persons is one of the greatest human rights challenges of our time. And it’s not something that just happens “over there.” It is happening right here in unsuspecting communities across the U.S.

Promote awareness of the horrors of modern day slavery by encouraging individuals across the nation to see Trade, a major motion picture starring Kevin Kline that opens on September 21st in the top 25 markets.
Please read the synopsis below:

SHORT SYNOPSIS

When a Mexican girl is kidnapped by sex traffickers in Mexico, her older brother and a Texas cop (Kevin Kline) set off on a desperate quest to rescue her. Trapped into an underground network of criminals who earn millions exploiting their human cargo, the girl’s only friend through her ordeal is a young Polish woman, a fellow captive. From the barrios of Mexico City and the treacherous Rio Grande border, to a secret internet sex slave auction and a tense confrontation at a stash house in suburban New Jersey, the policeman and the Mexican boy forge a close bond as they frantically pursue his sister’s kidnappers before she is sold and disappears into a brutal underworld from which few victims ever return. Inspired by Peter Landesman’s chilling NY Times Magazine story on the U.S. sex trade, “The Girls Next Door,” and written by Oscar nominated screenwriter Jose Rivera (THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES), TRADE is a thrilling story of courage and a devastating exposé of one of the world’s most heinous crimes.

Because the film is a beautifully produced commercial drama, and not a documentary, we think it will appeal to a wide audience— not just activist groups. Visit http://www.tradethemovie.com to learn more.