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.