HES Professors Present on CPR in Missouri Schools at MOAHPERD

Ms. Jana Arabas and Ms. Liz Jorn attended the Missouri Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Conference, November 11th-12th, at Lodge of the Four Seasons in Lake Ozark. At the conference they teamed with Gina McNeece from Northwest Missouri State University to present a CPR class for K-12 Physical Education Teachers across the state. Sixty-one teachers received the certification.

Also, Jana and Alexandra Arabas, (Alex is a senior at Kirksville High School), presented CPR in Schools: Managing an Unfunded Mandate. Governor Jay Nixon signed Senate Bill 711 in July, 2016 stating that all graduating seniors starting with the 2017-18 graduating class must have 30 minutes of CPR exposure upon graduation. Alexandra is a CPR instructor with the American Heart Association and is doing a year-long service learning project incorporating CPR/AED and the Heimlich maneuver into the High School freshmen health classes in Kirksville.