First Lady | Initiatives
First Lady's Initiatives
Power in You focuses on the emotional aspect of life challenges and at-risk behavior in order to bring hope to teens and encourage them to fulfill their lives and education potential.
DrugTALK is a virtual life coach dedicated to helping families, parents and young people overcome the threat and dangers of drugs in the privacy of their homes. Insights, tools and activities are delivered to parents to help them protect their children by putting vital protection principles into practice.
Baby Your Baby is an incredible program. Whether you are a pregnant woman, father-to-be, new parent, grandparent, or community member who cares about families, this program is for you.
Kirilenko's Kids endeavors to enhance the lives of youth in both Utah and Russia through its efforts with local children's hospitals and orphanages and other efforts that can provide critical assistance and make a difference in the lives of children.
Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free, a unique coalition of Governors' spouses, Federal agencies, and public and private organizations, is an initiative to prevent the use of alcohol by children ages 9 to 15. It is the only national effort that focuses on alcohol use in this age group.
Speaking of Women's Health is dedicated to educating women to make informed decisions about their health, well-being and personal safety. The goal of the Speaking of Women's Health conference is to enhance the lives and welfare of women, raise funds to support women's health initiatives and health programming on KUED, and honor individuals making a difference in their communities.
Read with a Child, sponsored by the Governor's Commission on Literacy, is a collaborative effort formulated to encourage families and others to read with a child for 20 minutes every day. Research confirms the importance of the "20 Minutes" message as a key tool essential in building lifelong learners.
Gene-O's Club Hope Gene-O's Club Hope program was established in 1999 by Mary Kaye Huntsman and the Huntsman Cancer Institute. This program was set up to help the newly diagnosed children know they are not alone. Several children with cancer came together to make a video for the newly diagnosed patient, sharing their stories of hope and inspiration.
Bag of Hope The "Bag of Hope" program was established by Mary Kaye Huntsman and her daughter Liddy in 1997, in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was adopted by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and is now a nationwide effort to help children emotionally with the diagnosis of juvenile diabetes. This is a kid-to-kid, heart-to-heart way of letting the newly diagnosed patients know they are not alone.