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Dear Students/Teachers/Principals/Parents,
We invite you to be part of a wonderful opportunity. The Richard David Kann Melanoma Foundation has expanded its educational activities to include a student-based program called Student’s Against Melanoma (SAM). SAM is committed to empowering young people to lead education and prevention initiatives in their schools and communities. SAM encourages all youth to get involved and be valued as a contributing member of their community. SAM’s approach involves students delivering sun safety messages to their peers through school and community based activities. The target audience will be middle and high school students in both public and private schools. Some examples of student’s projects include peer-lead presentations about sun safety and skin cancer prevention, teen workshops, awareness-raising and early detection activities and legislative work. The School District of Palm Beach County is proud to support the development of this program.
SAM has the potential to reach millions of youth across the country. Therefore, we encourage you to take advantage of this excellent and exciting opportunity and be part of a renewed effort to decrease the mortality associated with skin cancer.
If you are interested in starting a SAM Club at your school, please contact the Melanoma Foundation for more information. |
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- The Palm Beach County School District has strong and unwavering support for the Melanoma Foundations programs.
- Richard David Kann Melanoma Foundation is a premier organization in South Florida for the dissemination of educational activities related to sun safety and skin cancer prevention.
- The Melanoma Foundation has expanded its educational activities to include a student-based program called Student’s Against Melanoma (SAM).
- SAM is committed to empowering young people to lead education and prevention initiatives in their schools and communities.
- SAM’s approach involves students delivering education and prevention messages to their peers through school and community based activities.
- Examples of student projects:
- Peer-lead presentations about sun safety and skin cancer prevention
- Teen workshops
- Conferences and Rallies
- Prevention education
- Awareness-raising and Early Detection Activities
- Legislative Work
The value of SAM will be to disseminate information to local community members in schools, families, local community organizations.
SAM members are valued as contributing members of their communities.
Target audience will be middle and high school students in both public and private schools
SAM encourages all youth to get involved and lead prevention initiatives on sun safety in their community
SAM has the capability to reach millions of youth across the country with prevention messages during the most important time in a person’s life when they need to protect their skin. |
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| SUN SAFETY FACTS |
- Sunburns do not turn into sun tans.
- The sun is most harmful between 10 am. and 4 pm.
- You can get skin damage on a cloudy day.
- There is no such thing as a safe tan.
- The sun is responsible for many signs of premature aging (wrinkles, freckles, leathery skin, sun spots, etc.)
- Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States.
- One million new cases of skin cancer estimated for 2007.
- 1 out of 3 Floridians develop skin cancer.
- One person dies almost every hour of melanoma in the USA.
- Getting a sun tan is just as dangerous as getting a sun burn. Both result in DNA damage.
- 15-20 minutes in a tanning bed equals 3—4 hours outside in the sun.
- Tanning beds increase the risk of melanoma and non melanoma skin cancers.
- The younger you are when you start using tanning beds the more likely you are to get skin cancer.
- You can get skin cancer ANYWHERE on your body (palm of your hands, soles of your feet, eyes, under your finger nails and toe nails, etc.)
- ANYONE can get skin cancer. Dark skinned people are NOT immune to melanoma
- You have more risk if you have: light completion, lots of freckles or moles, family history of skin cancer, chronic exposure or tanning.
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