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Behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence
Phone: 906-632-3373 Ext. 5143
Email:
Degrees and Certifications:
Bachelor of Arts in Education, Michigan State University Masters of Arts in Curriculum and Instruction Lake Superior State University
Ms. Paula Finfrock
LifeSPAN Project Director
Paula Finfrock serves as the project director for LifeSPAN; a program funded under SNAP-Ed (the education portion of supplemental nutrition assistance program from the USDA). By overseeing the project as a whole, she is in charge of project reporting and communicating with our fiduciaries, Michigan Fitness Foundation. She provides support for LifeSPAN nutrition facilitators who teach PreK-6th grade students all about the importance of eating fruits and vegetables as well as being physically active. The program's focus is to help families gain knowledge through evidence-based programming and increase access to local resources that help them integrate healthy eating and physical activity into their daily life.
Paula has 15+ years as an educator in early childhood on up to college level in multiple areas ranging from physical activity, health, special education, and Native American culture/traditions.
Contact for:
LifeSPAN program
Phone: 906-632-3373, ext. 5132
Email:
Degrees and Certifications:
Master of Public Administration Keller Graduate School of Management DeVry University Bachelor of Studio Arts, Minor Psychology Michigan State University Trained Trainer for: ACES, Michigan Model for Health, Sex Education and HIV, Bully-Free Schools-Peer Aggression, LGBTQ, Action-Based Learning
Ms. Lisa Jo Gagliardi
Regional School Health Coordinator
Lisa Jo Gagliardi is a resource for student's physical and social emotional health. Working under the WSCC Model (Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child), Lisa Jo works on various grant programs to help students’ non-academic needs be met, as well as being the consultant for health education PK-12, and physical education. Some programs Lisa Jo currently works on are: Comprehensive School Health (Michigan Model for Health and Sex ed/HIV and LGBTQ), The U.P. Health Project, ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) presentations, Action-Based/Brain-Based Learning presentations, the MEMPSA Integrating Health into School Improvement Plans grant, McKinnney Vento, and serving in leadership capacities as part of the Regional Implementation Team for MTSS Scale Up, EUPISD NCA Accreditation, and the Michigan School Health Coordinators' Association.
Lisa Jo began her career in Kalamazoo working for a large non-profit, grant funded, serving people with disabilities. Her background in mental health knowledge, grant writing and administration, and public administration led her to become the elementary counseling grant coordinator for Rudyard Elementary where she oversaw the project implementation with two social workers and two counselors. She also soon became the Response to Intervention coordinator, getting staffed trained and implementing RTI in ELA. After working for Rudyard, Lisa Jo took her current position at the EUPISD. Over the years she has written many grants, overseen five school-based health centers, headed two large grants; physical education grant and elementary counseling grant that was allocated to three elementary schools, worked on Farm to School, and other Whole Child programs.
Contact for:
Comprehensive School Health for EUPISD and COPESD (predominantly Michigan Model for Health PK-12 and Sex Ed/HIV)
WSCC (Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child)
UP Health Project
MEMSPA IHSIP Project for Soo Twp and Houghton Lake Middle School
Regional Implementation Team for MTSS
Youth Mental Health Community Conversations-Building Resilient Communities committee Chair
Health and PE CRT
ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Presenter
Action-Based/Brain Based Learning facilitator
LGBTQ professional development/creating positive safe school climates
Bully-Free Schools: Circles of Support, SRSS-IE Resource
Phone: 906-632-3373 Ext. 5151
Email:
Degrees and Certifications:
Bachelor of Arts in Music Bachelor of Arts in Journalism Minor: Communication Studies Western Michigan University
Ms. Kathryn HIlls
Nutrition Facilitator
Kathryn Hills is a nutrition facilitator for LifeSPAN (Life Sustaining Physical Activity and Nutrition). She teaches K-5th grade students all about the importance of eating fruits and vegetables as well as being physically active.
Contact for: LifeSPAN
