ISLAND TEENS ADVOCACY TEAM 

ITAT NEWSLETTER


May 2019


ITAT Shares Their Roots!

What's New in May

ITAT showcases talents at Who Got Roots

This month, our island teens participated in Malialole Entertainment's annual Who Got Roots event, an annual Utah Polynesian dance, music, and arts competition

Provo High School ITAT participated for the first time in the competition this year and was the only school to represent Utah County! Our Provo Island youth worked hard to practice their performances and won the awards for Most Creative and Original, Best Performance, and Audience Favorite!

Our Bingham Island teens participated in the competition as well and made everyone proud, winning the Aganu'u Award (Best traditional performance) and the Best Wild Card Island Presentation for Bingham High School. 

We are so proud of our ITAT students for sharing their talents with the community and bringing more awareness to their clubs and community!


Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture

Bingham High School Performs for classmates

Picture
Picture

Our island teens from Bingham High School performed for their classmates in the special needs class! Everyone enjoyed the performance and had fun sharing talents and time together. 

BHS ITAT students also took a tour of the University of Utah campus. Below are pictures of their tour to the U of U law school and library. 


Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture

TOBACCO FACTS: 

-Tobacco is the #1 cause of preventable death

-7.6% of Utah teens use e-cigarettes regularly

-Tobacco still kills nearly half a million Americans and more than 7 million people worldwide each year

  • The tobacco industry relentlessly peddles its deadly products, targeting kids and other vulnerable populations.
  • Tobacco kills over 480,000 people in the U.S. and over 7 million worldwide each year.

-5.6 million kids alive today in the U.S. will ultimately die from smoking

  • In the U.S. alone, tobacco companies spend $9.1 billion a year — $1 million every hour — to market their deadly products.

(Utah DOH, center4research.com, tobaccofreekids.org


DIABETES FACTS:

  • More than 30 million people in the United States have diabetes, and 1 in 4 of them don’t know they have it.
  • More than 84 million US adults—1 in 3—have prediabetes, and 90% of them don’t know they have it.
  • In 2017, the total estimated cost of diagnosed diabetes was $327 billion.

In the United States, 40% of adults have obesity, and 72% are overweight or have obesity

(https://ibis.health.utah.gov, https://healthcare.utah.edu, CDC)


Visit Our Site

Let's be buddies