Mission Statement To promote injury prevention through reality education, enabling youth to recognize risk and makeinformed choices about activities and behaviors
What is the P.A.R.T.Y program? The Party program is an injury prevention and health education program targeted to teens, specifically Grade nine and ten students. According to statistics 90% of all injuries are both preventable and predicable. Participation The students that participate in the P.A.R.T.Y program spend a full day on a field trip at the Royal Inland Hospital. They hear hard-hitting information on the consequences of teenage drinking and driving, non compliance to seat belts, and negative risk taking behavior. Purpose The purpose of the P.A.R.T.Y Kamloops is to provide useful and relevant information to young people about injury, to enable them to make informed, prevention orientated choices about activities and behaviors. The students' day at the hospital follows the painful journey of a trauma victim through the hospital on the long road to rehabilitation. Nurses, Physicians, Paramedics, and Rehabilitation professionals volunteer their personal time to talk with the students about their role in the care of the trauma patient, and what they have experienced in their careers. Interaction The delivery of the P.A.R.T.Y program includes a walking tour of the IntensiveCare Unit, and the Emergency department, and hands on participation by the students. The students interact with injury survivors who have sustained spinal cord or head injuries. The teens also participate in a disability lunch with the help of splints, hard collars, special glasses. Students experience for a short time what can be a daily challenge for somebody
Risk Management of Life At the end of the day students are encouraged to examine their own behaviors and attitudes and to make use of the handouts such as the "Contract for Life". They are expected to share the information they learned at P.A.R.T.Y with their school and community. Risk management of their life, We give them the power to choose through education and the motivation to choose wisely. This is a reality based program, not an attempt to "scare" the students into changing behavior. Fear is not a very good motivator; education is.
