June 2012

This guest blog post was written by our former Triad Regional Coordinator, Stacie Turpin Saunders. Stacie has joined Alamance County Health Department where she serves as the Health Education Supervisor. Her time spent working with us was brief, but exceptional, and we know she’ll be fantastic at her new position. Best of all, she remains a dedicated advocate for and partner with the March of Dimes NC Preconception Health Campaign.

I knew it was going to be an awesome day when I started my trek to the Koury Convention Center in Greensboro on May 16 for the APPCNC Annual Conference. The Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina (APPCNC) conference brings together people across the state working on teen pregnancy prevention to share ideas and learn from one another. Now usually, being an exhibitor at a conference doesn’t cause this much excitement in me, but today was different. Only a few miles separated me from being in the presence of two...