Mógúán’s Healthy FridaysSince 2025, students attend Friday Healthy Kids classes at Mógúán Behavioral Health Services. These weekly sessions support wellness, better decision-making, student leadership, and prevention of suicide and substance abuse.
Friday Healthy Kids Classes
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August 2025
Students engaged in multiple white water rafting and hiking excursions in the Durango, Colorado area. These outdoor experiences promoted physical fitness, teamwork, resilience, and mental wellness while reinforcing healthy risk-taking and connection to nature through OPEGP-aligned activities.
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September 2025
Students spent two days in a Bike Rodeo, learning bike skills, responsibility, and community awareness. A weekend basketball camp taught DFC prevention and showed how fitness supports lifelong learning, goal-setting, teamwork, and good choices. The month closed with stargazing and cultural teachings at Canyons of the Ancients, where Ute elders, park rangers, and a professor shared Ute night‑sky knowledge blending culture, science, and wellness.
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October 2025
Students participated in a culinary arts cooking class facilitated by Naomi Louise, preparing contemporary tomato basil soup and triple grilled cheese sandwiches. This hands-on experience supported life skills, nutrition awareness, teamwork, and confidence-building.
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November 2025
Friday Healthy Kids Classes continued with a strong emphasis on positive choices, leadership development, and peer support, reinforcing prevention messaging and self-regulation strategies.
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December 2025
Students participated the Vive18 in Phoenix, Arizona. Vive18 is a drug prevention platform that provides engaging education and programming to save students lives and create a safer environment to grow.
Supporting UMUT youth in building lifelong skills for healthy decision-making and community leadership.
Healthy Risk Taking
Students engaged in multiple white water rafting and hiking excursions in the Durango, Colorado area. These outdoor experiences promoted physical fitness, teamwork, resilience, and mental wellness while reinforcing healthy risk-taking and connection to nature through OPEGP-aligned activities.
August 2025
Teamwork & Good Choices
Students spent two days in a Bike Rodeo, learning bike skills, responsibility, and community awareness. A weekend basketball camp taught DFC prevention and showed how fitness supports lifelong learning, goal-setting, teamwork, and good choices. The month closed with stargazing and cultural teachings at Canyons of the Ancients, where Ute elders, park rangers, and a professor shared Ute night‑sky knowledge blending culture, science, and wellness.
September 2025
Nutrition Awareness, Teamwork, and Confidence-Building
Students participated in a culinary arts cooking class facilitated by Naomi Louise, preparing contemporary tomato basil soup and triple grilled cheese sandwiches. This hands-on experience supported life skills, nutrition awareness, teamwork, and confidence-building.
October 2025
The Choices We Make
Friday Healthy Kids Classes continued with a strong emphasis on positive choices, leadership development, and peer support, reinforcing prevention messaging and self-regulation strategies.
November 2025
Programs To Make A REAL Difference
Young people shouldn’t feel excluded for making healthy choices. By empowering youth to make informed decisions about drugs, students become equipped to redefine social norms surrounding drug use, ultimately safeguarding their friends and their future.
December 2025
Friday Healthy Kids Classes Photo Gallery
