The Alice Aycock Poe Center for Health Education is a nonprofit organization dedicated to positively impacting the lives of North Carolina's youth through health education. Since opening in Raleigh in 1991, the Poe Center has educated over one million participants from 90 NC counties using innovative teaching theaters, exhibits and offsite programs. By engaging in fun, highly interactive lessons, preschoolers through twelfth graders receive information that follows the NC DPI Healthful Living Standard Course of Study on a variety of health topics, including nutrition, dental health, general health, family life and drug prevention. The Poe Center's mission is to educate and empower North Carolina children, youth and their families to make choices that increase positive health behaviors.