In partnership with local health care providers, BC Ambulance Service (BCAS) is helping educate British Columbia youth about how to stay safe through the P.A.R.T.Y. Program (Prevent Alcohol and Risk-Related Trauma in Youth), a one-day, in-hospital, injury awareness and prevention program designed to reduce death and injury in alcohol, drug and risk-related crashes and incidents.
Open to youth ages 16 and older, the goal of P.A.R.T.Y. is to provide teens with life-saving information about trauma that will enable them to recognize potential injury-producing situations, make prevention-oriented choices and adopt behaviours that minimize unnecessary risk.
Supporting the program are BCAS paramedics, who volunteer their time to lead P.A.R.T.Y sessions for Grade 10 students throughout the province. During these sessions, paramedics hold a mock-crash demonstration and describe in detail the process they go through when they attend a serious motor vehicle collision. Involving personnel and volunteers from Health Authorities, the RCMP, Auto plan Brokers and ICBC, police, crash survivors, school districts and individual schools, this valuable public education initiative represents one of the ways BCAS paramedics continue to give back to their communities.
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