The United Ways of the Upstate, the ACC, Clemson University and the USA TODAY Charitable Foundation are teaming up to provide United Way Healthy Teens, a cross-curricular health and wellness literacy program to inspire middle school students to build a better quality of life for themselves, their families and their communities.
United Way Healthy Teens will help young people find solutions to all of these problems--by making better, healthier decisions for life. It will also:
- Support United Way’s goal to get 1.9 million more young people healthy and active by the year 2018.
- Promote good nutrition and physical activity.
- Increase reading and comprehension skills through the exploration of relevant, timely, real-world information on health and well-being in USA TODAY.
- Encourage critical thinking and problem-solving for students, resulting in healthy lifestyle decisions.
- Cultivate an informed generation of young people empowered to make healthy choices and inspired to give, advocate and volunteer in the communities in which they live.
United Ways in South Carolina that are teaming up with the ACC, Clemson University, and the USA Today.
- United Way of Greenville County
- United Way of Pickens County
- United Way of Anderson County
- United Way of Oconee County