When trying to educate adolescents and teens about skin cancer, it\u2019s very important that the information presented is not only correct, but also properly focused. Words that fall on primarily deaf ears are useless; rendering the material ineffective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Melanoma Education Foundation<\/em> (MEF) was founded by its president Stephen Fine<\/a> in 1999, one year after his 26-year old son Daniel tragically passed away from the disease. From that day to this, Steve and the MEF have studied the most beneficial ways to get teens to absorb critical information on melanoma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We learned long ago that concentrating on education<\/a> is more impactful than research. Catching skin cancer early or preventing it before it has a chance to get started is preferable to trying to cure it long after it develops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An excellent way to achieve that goal is give middle and high school health educators free, simple access to accurate, easily teachable information. To that end, we\u2019ve created melanoma lessons for teachers to present to their students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The attention span of teens has never been shorter, and few have the patience to listen intently to a long-winded monologue on a disease. That\u2019s why it\u2019s vital to speak to them in their own language, and make the lessons brief and easily digestible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our lessons were created based on the data gathered from teen focus groups. Our videos feature teens talking about their firsthand experiences directly to other teens. The MEF\u2019s free The Melanoma Lessons<\/em><\/a> are being taught in over 1,700 schools all across the United States. We know how much they\u2019re working, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019ve received hundreds of accounts and positive survey responses<\/a> of melanoma being stopped dead in its tracks due to our lessons. And not only in the students themselves, but within their families. Some health educators have even saved their own lives by virtue of having information on melanoma about which they were previously unaware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are multiple reasons why our lessons are so successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you\u2019re a teacher, do your skin cancer lessons (if any are even on the itinerary) address these issues?<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you\u2019re a parent, are you aware of what, if anything, your teens are being taught about melanoma in school?<\/p>\n\n\n\n If the answers are \u201cno\u201d, we invite you to take just a few brief moments to view t<\/a><\/strong>his award-winning, 3-minute long introductory video<\/a>.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n After watching the video, teachers may register to access the completely free teen melanoma lessons that have been described as the most effective on the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For Steve it\u2019s personal, and he has worked nonstop to do everything possible to spare people from the pain he and so many others have endured at the hands of this horrific and unnecessary scourge. Please, help us to help you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When trying to educate adolescents and teens about skin cancer, it\u2019s very important that the information presented is not only correct, but also properly focused. Words that fall on primarily deaf ears are useless; rendering the material ineffective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,35,43,64,83],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Why Are Our Melanoma Lessons More Effective than Others?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
To Both Teachers and Parents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n