P.A.R.T.Y. Program Parents Guide
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Our Proud Sponsors For more information visit: ICBC www.islandhealth.ca/our-services/children-youth- TELUS services/prevent-alcohol-risk-related-trauma-youth-party Parent’s Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation www.partyprogram.com RCMP Foundation Nanaimo Daybreak Rotary Club www.facebook.com/THEPARTYPROGRAM Evening Optimist Club of Victoria Guide Knights of Columbus Links for Parents: Nanaimo Daybreak Rotary Club Victoria Police Department Parachute – Canadian Injury Prevention Initiative Oak Bay Police Department http://www.parachutecanada.org/ Saanich Police Department ICBC – Info for Parents of Teen Drivers Central Saanich Police Department www.icbc.com/driver-licensing/new-drivers/Pages/For- Costco Wholesale (Langford) parents-of-teen-drivers Save-On-Foods (Country Club Store, Nanaimo) Discovery Youth and Family Substance Use Services Superstore (Duncan) www.viha.ca/youth-substance-use/discovery.htm Arbour Memorial (Nanaimo) Dignity Memorial (Campbell River and Comox) First Memorial Funeral Services (Victoria) Victoria Brain Injury Society Comox Valley Head Injury Society Campbell River Head Injury Society Panago Pizza (Victoria, Duncan, Nanaimo) Pacific Rim Driving School (Port Alberni) Eagle Eye Towing (Victoria) For more information or to make a Tiger Towing (Duncan) donation please contact: Schnitzer Steel (Nanaimo) HB Towing and Recovery (Nanaimo) Amelia Smit Injury Prevention Consultant Alberni Towing Island Health Trauma Services Boris Mobile Mechanic (Port Hardy) South Island Office: 250.727.4534 | Cell: 250.882.5035 Ron’s Towing (Salt Spring Island) [email protected] View Royal Fire Rescue Salt Spring Island Fire Rescue Kevin Vowles Gold River Volunteer Fire and Rescue Injury Prevention Consultant Island Health Trauma Services Port McNeill Fire Rescue Central & North Island Comox Fire Rescue Office: 250.755.7691 x52412 | Cell: 250.713.2148 [email protected] Parents are always welcome to attend the What is P.A.R.T.Y.? P.A.R.T.Y. Program. Please contact your child’s teacher for your school’s scheduled session date. Island Health has been delivering the P.A.R.T.Y. (Prevent Alcohol and Risk- We’re always looking for volunteers! Please visit Related Trauma in Youth) Program on our website for more information. Vancouver Island since 2003. The P.A.R.T.Y. Program provides students with a realistic look at the impact of poor decision making and the immediate and “It was very impactful and everyone long term consequences. Through the should have to go. It wasn’t just facts and lens of health care providers, students Comox P.A.R.T.Y. Program shock factor; it was very sad which made follow the journey of a trauma victim it more personal and left you thinking.” from occurrence of injury, through transport, treatment, rehabilitation and Why P.A.R.T.Y.? Ballenas Secondary School Student community re-integration. Health care professionals and community volunteers 1 in 5 young drivers will be involved in a crash that include physicians, nurses, in their first two years of driving. paramedics, police, and trauma survivors Car crashes are the #1 killer of youth aged 13– Program Highlights share first hand experiences and provide 25 in BC. students with strategies for mitigating Approximately 4000 grade 10 students risk. Teens are more susceptible than older drivers attend the program every year. to peer pressure. Over 80 session are offered across the re- Parent Tip Driver inexperience, distractions (cell phones, gion, from Victoria to Port Hardy. music, peers), and risk-taking are some of the Make a family contract with your teenager Over 250 volunteers contribute an average factors that contribute to a new driver’s in- so they know you are willing to pick them of 3000 hours to this valuable program. volvement in crashes. up anytime they need a safe ride home. .