Sudbury & Timmins, ON - Hanna Helps - Experience from a recent P.A.R.T.Y.
NorthernLife.ca
May 12, 2010
By: Sudbury Northern Life Staff
Grade 11 and 12 students from Greater Sudbury high schools are learning to prevent alcohol and risk related trauma in youth, or P.A.R.T.Y., with the Sudbury Regional Hospital.
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Toronto, ON - Hanna Helps - Experience from a recent P.A.R.T.Y.
HANNA HELPS
Blog from "The York School" Student Services @TYS April 16, 2010
P.A.R.T.Y. with the Class of 2011
On Tuesday April 6th, 2010, the Class of 2011 traveled to Sunnybrook Health Science Centre to participate in a program called P.A.R.T.Y – Preventing Alcohol and Risk-related Trauma in Youth. The impact of this day will last forever in our minds.
Neenah, WI - Appleton's megan Wolf details life after fatal U.S. 41 crash
From postcrescent.com
By John Lee • Post-Crescent staff writer
Wednesday March 3, 2010
APPLETON — Megan Wolf was in a lot of pain as she lay in the trauma center at Theda Clark Medical Center in Neenah in late August 2008.
She had lost a kidney, torn her intestines, had fractures and tubes in her chest and her throat.
But the most pain she would feel was five days after her crash on U.S. 41 near Neenah, when her dad told her that two friends who were in her car had died.
Elliot Lake, ON - P.A.R.T.Y. Program Can Save Young Lives
The Elliot Lake Standard
February 26, 2010
Posted By KEVIN McSHEFFREY
A parent's worst nightmare is something terrible happening to one of their children, whether they are a newborn, a toddler, a teenager or an adult.
Victoria - When the party's over
From: Oak Bay News
By Kyle Slavin - Oak Bay News
Published: February 18, 2010
Room 1400 at Victoria General Hospital is a bit out of the way. In the furthest corner of the building, accessible from the upper floors by a bank of service elevators or a nondescript staircase, Room 1400 is quiet, save for the loud hum of the freezer system.
On bad days, Diane Bjola is charged with escorting grief-stricken parents down the staircase from the hospital lobby, through the beige hallways to the back corner of the first floor and into Room 1400, the autopsy room, which includes the morgue.
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Folsom, El Dorado Hills - Risky Business ~ P.A.R.T.Y. Provides a Traumatic Eye-Opener
Courtesy Style Magazine
Folsom El Dorado Hills / February 2010
February 2010
By Jenn Thornton
Youth is a great deceiver; an unending well of invincibility for young people who envision a future filled with nothing but time.
But, injuries among adolescents and teenagers resulting from high-risk behaviors is a stark reminder that passion has a price. Oftentimes, it is entirely too high to bear.
P.A.R.T.Y. HQ - Slower Driving Leads to Longer Life Expectancy
Courtesy Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
February 1, 2010
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre researcher Dr. Donald Redelmeier and colleagues have found that each hour spent driving in North America leads to about a 20 minute loss in life expectancy for the average driver due to the risks of a fatal crash. That is, spending about 60 minutes in a car costs about 80 minutes in total for the average driver as time gone from the person's life.
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Hinton - P.A.R.T.Y. program gives students a reality check
Courtesy Hinton Parklander
November 25, 2009
Previously run by the Boys and Girls Club in Hinton, the Prevent Alcohol and Risk Related Trauma in Youth (PARTY) program is now being operated by the Community Crime Prevention Association.
Now in its 14th year, the program runs once yearly with a series of six to eight sessions of visceral presentations intended to warn about the effects of impaired driving.
Folsom - P.A.R.T.Y. in Folsom - Sacramento
Courtesy of NewsBlaze.com
Thursday November 05, 2009
The Folsom Police and Fire Departments, along with P.A.R.T.Y. (Prevent Alcohol and Risk related Trauma in Youth), and in association with Mercy Hospital Folsom invite the public to a special presentation.
P.A.R.T.Y. HQ - The province doubles budget for R.I.D.E. Program
From, CP24.com
Tuesday November 03, 2009
The province of Ontario is increasing the budget for the annual holiday RIDE program.
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Prince George - Cash for P.A.R.T.Y.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Prince George, Canada
Prince George, B.C.- The P.A.R.T.Y. program has received a financial boost from the RCMP Foundation. A cheque in the amount of $1,500 has been presented to the Prince George Safe Attitudes and Actions Society which is responsible for the P.A.R.T.Y. program.
York Region - Students from Michael McGivney and Choices attend York Region Party
Friday October 23, 2009
Newmarket, Canada
York Region P.A.R.T.Y. Program in Newmarket, Ontario received media coverage on their first P.A.R.T.Y. Program day. Students from Father Michael McGivney and Choices attended the program and are highlighted in the video link below.
Watch a news report of students from Father Michael McGivney and Choices at York Region P.AR.T.Y. Program. This telecast begins at 9:30 mark of the news report.
Regina - Mock Car Crash Teaches Students the Dangers of Drunk-Driving
Thursday October 22, 2009
Moose Jaw, Canada
Two students are left critically injured after a car crash and their friend is arrested for drink-driving.
Fortunately this was a mock accident created by emergency services in Moose Jaw on Thursday to show students at Central Collegiate the dangers of drinking and taking risks while driving. The scenario at Union Hospital was part of the P.A.R.T.Y program, which stands for Prevent Alcohol and Risk-Related Trauma in Youth.
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York Region - Sombre Lesson Emotional for Students
Content from yorkregion.com.
Reporter, Teresa Latchford
Tuesday October 20, 2009
Southlake Regional Health Centre is teaching students how to party.
The new program, prevent alcohol and risk-related trauma in youth, is a joint effort with York Regional Police and York Region Emergency Medical Services that brings students into the emergency and trauma departments to learn about the consequences of risky behaviour such as driving under the influence, not wearing a helmet when riding a bike and not wearing a seat belt during a collision.
P.A.R.T.Y. HQ - Be good role models, parents urged
Wednesday September 30, 2009
Brantford, Canada
It's what you hear, not what you see, that stays with your forever, says a trauma room veteran. "People always ask me: 'What's the worst thing I've ever seen?'" Joanne Banfield said Monday. "And I always tell them it's not what I've seen; it's what I have heard.
Melbourne - Teens See Consequences of Youth Folly
From, TheAge.com
Friday July 24, 2009