Block the Blaze

What is Block the Blaze? 

Block the Blaze is a John Wayne Cancer Foundation (JWCF) funded youth skin cancer education and awareness program. Block the Blaze encourages youth to be outdoors, active, and healthy while focusing on sun safety, including skin cancer prevention and early detection. Blocking the Blaze is important all year, not just those summer months. That is why the program is provided year-round, in classrooms during the school year, and during summer programs. The school presentations are tailored based on grade level so students receive a fun, informative presentation that is easy to understand. TTUHSC is partnering with the John Wayne Cancer Foundation to train facilitators to go out into our Texas communities and educate middle to high school aged kids. TTUHSC is not the owner of the Block the Blaze material. TTUHSC has been approved to educate, certify, organize and send TTUHSC representatives to the TTUHSC campuses and their surrounding community schools to present about the dangers of melanoma and skin cancer.

Request a Presentation

If you would like to request a presentation from one of our TTUHSC trained facilitators, please email Student.Life@ttuhsc.edu.

Facilitators

Current facilitators are student organization leaders, faculty or staff, and residents. We partner with the John Wayne Cancer Foundation to get facilitators trained on the Block the Blaze material 1-2 times a year.  If you are interested in being trained fill out the Interest Form.

Scheduled Presentations

Trained facilitators will register the presentations they are planning to do so that we can identify who is being educated and when. To register your presentation on the calendar below fill out the Registration Form. 

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