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NMU Center for Rural Health

Join us for a fun week of camp to learn about various aspects of health, meet health professionals, explore simulation labs, learn hands-on techniques and get a glimpse into healthcare careers and life on campus. The camp is open to all fall 2025 high school freshmen and sophomores.

The Upper Peninsula Future Health Leaders Camp (U.P. FHLC) is designed to promote the culture of overall health by:

1. Educating youth about best practices for living a healthy life, 

2. Providing an opportunity to explore a variety of health career options, 

3. Creating and developing new friendships in a fun-filled week of education and activities, and 

4. Encouraging youth to start thinking about their future and how they can truly make an impact. 

Educational topics will include basic physical health including nutrition and cardiovascular, mental health, and oral health. Additionally, there will be structured time to learn about surgical technology radiography, speech-language pathology, audiology, and clinical lab sciences. Youth will get hands-on patient simulation experience, and complete CPR & first aid certification by the end of the week. 

Each day will begin with a health professional providing insight into their career and each night will end with social and recreational activities. Youth will also have an opportunity to meet with a variety of health professionals and learn about career path options at a health career fair. 

Lastly, youth and parents will learn more about tips on what they can do now to better prepare for college.

NMU Center for Rural Health

The U.P. Community Health Town Hall is a FREE, monthly, virtual webinar series that focuses on a different health topic each month. The Town Hall provides a platform for the public to engage with a diverse panel of subject-matter experts such as public health officials, clinicians, educators, agencies, etc., and will focus on a variety of aspects that impact the health and wellbeing of communities throughout the Upper Peninsula. Regional health statistics, emerging health issues, current initiatives, and best practices will be shared in an effort to increase awareness, inspire action, and improve the health of individuals.

The Town Hall broadcast takes place the last Thursday of each month and may be viewed live at 7:00 p.m. ET through the following Zoom Webinar link: https://bit.ly/UPhealthtownhall.  Webinar passcode: 739576  

Additionally, the Town Hall can be heard live on 97.7 The Wolf (WOLV-FM), 98.7 Rockin Eagle (WGLI-FM), 105.7 Eagle Country (WCUP-FM), and 107.7 Q107 (WMQT-FM).

Those unable to join on Zoom may find a recording of the program afterwards at: https://nmu.edu/ruralhealth/community-health-town-hall

Thank you in advance for promoting this program throughout the U.P. region!

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