Road of Life: Cancer Prevention for Kids

Road of Life is a non-profit organization with a mission to eradicate preventable cancers and diseases of excess by educating children on the fitness, nutrition, and tobacco use decisions they can make to lead healthier lives. The organization was created around 2002.
Support
Road of Life is supported by the Keren Emrich Foundation. The Keren Emrich Foundation was founded in 2002 in memory of Keren Rebecca Emrich. Its main purpose is to support Road of Life, a cancer prevention education organization targeted for children and adolescent youth.
*Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, University Hospitals
http://www.uhhospitals.org/tabid/3174/Default.aspx
*The Ohio State University College of Public Health Annual Report
http://medicine.osu.edu/sitetool/sites/pdfs/sphpublic/07_AnnualReport_Web.pdf
Programs
The Classroom Curriculum and After School Program provided by Road of Life are certified with the National Health Education Standards; the Classroom Curriculum also meets the Ohio Benchmark and Indicator Core Academic Content Standards. Road of Life also provides a Summer Camp and a Family Program. All Road of Life programs feature modular designs, allowing single lessons to be taught or the entire course, and focus on four aspects of health: General Health, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Tobacco Use Prevention. Academic subject cores covering Mathematics, English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science enrich these lessons.
"The curriculum has already been through 3 internal iterations, developed by ROL's AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) members, most of whom have Master's Degrees in Education or Public Health. The curriculum has recently been approved for use in the Columbus Public Schools by the Curriculum Quality Control Council (CQCC), and ROL is opening up a Cleveland office." Its work is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license (Creative Commons licenses).
Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital
The Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Initiative at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio supports the Road of Life programming. The AYA not only raises awareness, but helps advance the development of new and needed approaches in the treatment and prevention of childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancers. Rainbow’s AYA Cancer Initiative believes in education in prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship.
Road of Life works hand in hand with the university to allow for students to work and gain experience with the organization as well.<ref name="cph.osu.edu"/>

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