The Poe Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to positively impacting the lives of North Carolina youth through health education.
Who: Since opening in Raleigh in 1991, the Poe Center has educated more than 850,000 participants from 76 counties using innovative teaching theaters, exhibits and offsite programs.
What: The mission of the Poe Center for Health Education is to educate and empower North Carolina children, youth and their families to make choices that increase positive health behaviors.
Where: The Poe Center is located in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Why: The vision of the Poe Center for Health Education is that all North Carolina children and youth become healthy adults.
How: By engaging in fun, highly interactive lessons, preschoolers through twelfth graders receive information that follows the NC DPI Essential Standards for Healthful Living Education on a variety of health topics, including nutrition, dental health, general health, family life and drug prevention.
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