hroughout this module, you’ve been learning about the importance of earning CHES certification for professional health educators. To explore this further, choose ONE of the following options for your discussion board assignment.

1. Write a speech about why it is important for professional health educators to earn CHES certification. The audience for your speech is undergraduate college students enrolled in a health education program. Your speech must be at least 250 words long. In your speech, you should make a clear case for why CHES is important and use references from your reading to back up your points. Be sure to cite your references using APA format.

2. Interview a health educator who is CHES certified and ask this person about why she thinks CHES certification is important and how it has helped her/his career in health education. Write a report describing what you learned during this interview. This report must be at least 250 words long. In your report, clearly discuss why the person you interviewed thought CHES was important (or was not). Use references from your reading to support the points you make in your report. Be sure to cite your references using APA format.