Supporting Student Health: Head to Heart

Join Erica Ayers for a conversation about ways we can support student mental and physical health.

Erica is the School Wellness Consultant with the Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity Prevention Section at the South Carolina Department of Public Health. Erica is a Master Certified Health Education Specialist and Results Based Accountability Certified. Erica has over ten years of experience working to improve access to healthier foods and opportunities for daily physical activity through policy, systems, and environmental approaches.

Erica is the state lead for Open Community Use, the co-lead for SC FitnessGram, serves on the Local Wellness Policy State Technical Assistance Team and is the Executive Director for the SC Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness. In her free time, Erica stays active by taking long walks with her husband and dog, sharing her yoga mat with her cat, and teaching her boys how to ride their bikes.