Ms. Courtney is the HIV/AIDS Education Coordinator for the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) in the Office of Comprehensive School Health. In her five years with ADE she has taken on many tasks, including coordinating the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), and the School Health Education Profile (SHEP). She has provided numerous trainings in HIV/AIDS prevention, tobacco prevention, comprehensive health education, policy development and assessment. She has worked on organizing, planning, and presenting at various health conferences in the state, and has also worked on developing assessment tools at the national, state and local level.