Cody Can Youth Inc

The organization maintains and harvests a vegetable garden to further the organization's goal of teaching healthy lifestyles to its participants. The organization's participants participate in all aspects of garden maintenance and harvesting are taught food preservation and cooking skills. The garden was moved in 2024 to sunset elementary school, where it started to be used as an "anchor" for monthly leadership development lessons, which are taught to 5th grade students by the organization's high school participants. Goal setting, planning, "controlling the controllables", etc. Are the subjects of these lessons. The board of directors finds that these lessons are working really well and that they provide additional opportunities for positive interaction and engagement between the organization's high school participants and elementary students.

The organization recognizes that healthy kids come from healthy communities, so it provides tools, education, and activities to support wellness across the entire community, regardless of age, income level, race, or gender. In an ongoing effort to place the decision of students to remain healthy and drug free in the broader context of a healthy lifestyle within a healthy community, the organization continues to expand its community health and wellness programs,including: 1. Creating a strength class for young adults with disabilities. Participants are recent graduates of cody high school who are working to maintain a healthy lifestyle as they segue into either independent living or living with a caregiver. The organization has offered twice weekly exercise classes, which include nutrition and lifestyle education components. 2. The organization is partnering with the wyoming department of health on a community health and wellness initiative - twice weekly strength and balance classes for senior citizens in the cody community funded by the wyoming department of health through december of 2026. The primary goals of this program include developing stronger intergenerational community bonds between cody's senior citizens and cody high school youth by having the organization's members volunteer to assist with the classes. This volunteer opportunity furthers the organization's mission 3, which is stated above in this schedule o. (it takes a village and many teens do not have regular interactions with older family members.) a component of the grant was to utilize technology, so the organiztion is utilizing predictive technology along with community based interventions (the twice weekly strength classes) to prevent falls, safeguard independence, and improve mobility of seniors (ages 65 and up). In 2024, the organization provided these classes in two new locations - powell, wyoming and laramie wyoming. Reports of these activities, which are submitted to the wdh, are available on request from the organization. - sparta plates, which are currently primarily used in the military and professional sports leagues to identify the potential for injury and then provide prescriptive training interventions by measuring load, explode and drive. The organization uses the plates to assess "sway- and balance issues, as well as to measure generated force as a measure of strength.