What famous cartoon came out the same year that McMillen Health opened? If you guessed Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, you would be correct! McMillen Health opened in 1981 as the 2nd independently operated health education center in the nation. With a slim staff of only two full-time and four part-time health educators and one administrator, we served 40,000 children with fact-based preventive health education! Our focus was drug prevention, general health, nutrition, and reproductive health. In the last 40 years, we have expanded our content areas to now provide more than 250 preventive health education programs and serve more than 90,000 students annually. To provide over 250 preventive health education programs and remain sustainable, McMillen Health has expanded our staff to 28 and our expertise now includes the development and design of low-literacy curriculum, resources, and videos for organizations nationwide. We also continue to expand our Brush oral health program’s reach nationally, now serving 34 states and 1.89 million children and families. Over the last year, McMillen Health has had Spider-Man-like flexibility and ingenuity as we worked together at the Amazing McMillen Health to serve 91,424 children and adults of all abilities and backgrounds with vital, effective preventive health education. We used our expanded expertise in low-literacy content to design three curricula, produce 110 videos, conduct and design two dental health needs assessments, launch our Healthy Tomorrow prenatal and postnatal app, and so much more. Keep reading for more Adventures at the Amazing McMillen Health…
Nicole Fairchild, MPA, MBA Executive Director
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