[LIBERTY] – Five Sullivan County schools participating in the Sullivan 180 Empowering a Healthier Generation competition are preparing to host a panel of judges and show off their efforts to promote health and wellness for the students and community of their school building.  The judges, coming from outside of Sullivan County, will meet with school representatives and visit schools to determine who will win the competition and additional funding. 

Participants in the Empowering a Healthier Generation Competition include Benjamin Cosor Elementary, Fallsburg; Livingston Manor Elementary; Livingston Manor High School; Cooke Elementary, Monticello; Sullivan West Elementary.

During the 2022-2023 school year, these schools were awarded Healthier Generation Competition Grants in the amount of $5,000 each; and are competing for Healthier Generation Awards in the amount of $75,000 and $50,000 that will be presented at the Empowering a Healthier Generation Awards & Celebration at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on September 21, 2023.

The 2023 Empowering a Healthier Generation judges are:

Names and affiliations of the judges:  Pat Claiborne, Orange County Progress; Lori Rivenburgh, Executive Director, Town of Wallkill Boys & Girls Club; Shayna Russo, SNAP – ED Hudson Valley Region, Project Manager.

“We are honored to host this distinguished panel of judges and showcase some of the best school-based health & wellness work in our county,” said Meaghan Mullally-Gorr, Director of Health & Wellness at Sullivan 180. “Healthier Generation Advisors, committees, school administrators and communities have been working very hard to prepare for Judging Week. Sullivan County schools have so much to be proud of and we are looking forward to celebrating the culmination of their efforts at the Empowering a Healthier Generation Awards & Celebration.”

Judging Week includes one day of school building presentations followed by two days of school building site visits. During the school building site visits judges will be hosted by participating schools where they will see the health & wellness initiatives in action. These initiatives promote health and wellness among students, staff, parents, and their communities to create a grassroots movement that will change policy and environments; while demonstrating that individuals and families have an important role to play in building a culture of health for themselves and the next generation.

To learn more about Empowering a Healthier Generation visit www.sullivan180.org or contact Meaghan Mullally-Gorr at 845-295-2685 or Meaghan@Sullivan180.org.