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Robert Crown Center |
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The Nation's First Health Education Facility 4.5 million students visited the Center in its first 30 years. The Robert Crown Center for Health Education is an internationally renowned teaching facility in Hinsdale founded in 1974 to educate young people so that they can make healthy choices for their bodies-and for their lifetimes.
Each year, over 170,000 students, teachers and parents from Chicagoland and beyond come to the Center in Hinsdale for instruction on a wide range of health education topics. More than 2,500 schools depend on the Center each year to deliver high impact programs packed with up-to-the-minute information on health education topics. |
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Robert Crown Programs |
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. General Health Education
. Drug Abuse Preventive Education
. Life Begins/Family Living
. AIDS Education
. Life Education for the Developmentally Disabled |
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Outreach programs also bring Robert Crown's message of healthy living to students in preschool through grade 12 throughout the Chicago area. |
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Visuals and Exhibits That Captivate Students |
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The Center has won numerous awards and countless praise for its inspiring presentations, innovative exhibits, and exciting audio-visual presentations. "Valeda," the center's talking anatomical mannequin has been educating students since its arrival in 1958 at the Hinsdale Health Museum, the predecessor to the Robert Crown Center. |
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The Prototype for Centers all over the World |
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Health education centers all over the U.S. and the world have modeled their facilities and programs after those at Robert Crown Center. Twenty different sites have followed the Center's example-from Indianapolis to Raleigh , N. Carolina to Australia. |
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Robert Crown Center, 21 Salt Creek Lane, Hinsdale, IL 60521. Telephone: 630.325.1900 |
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Visit our web-site: www.robertcrown.org |
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