Mógúán’s Healthy Fridays
Friday Healthy Kids Classes

Since 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.

❋ 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.

❋ 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.

❋ 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.

❋ 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.

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

Friday Healthy Kids Classes Photo Gallery

Collectively, these activities reflect a comprehensive, culturally responsive, and developmentally appropriate approach to student engagement that integrates physical wellness, mental health, leadership, prevention education, cultural knowledge, and outdoor learning.