Interactive Displays
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Dear all,
For the last five years, Westmead Hospital has held the Youth and Road Trauma Forum. This injury prevention program is open to students in years 10 to 12 in all government and non-government high schools in NSW and the ACT. The Forum is held at the Acer Arena, Olympic Park, Homebush Bay. More than 10,000 students from 115 high schools have attended. Evaluations of both students and teachers have received the event very positively with many schools attending consecutive years. There was also significant interest and support from the media.
The forum was held because our youth are being severely injured and killed due to potentially preventable road crashes. The NSW statistics for 2004 for 17-25 year olds, recorded 6,856 casualties of road trauma and 187 deaths. These young people hold only 15% of licenses, but they are involved in 28% of crashes, which often result in hospitalization. Westmead Hospital Trauma Nurses are committed to decreasing these numbers.
The forum provided students who are most at risk, a realistic look at the trauma caused by road crashes and provided them information and strategies in an attempt to reduce serious injuries and deaths. The forum's contents and structure aimed to treat young people as adults allowing them freedom to choose from a range of interactive exhibits.
A letter was sent out the all schools in September 2007 and nearly 12,000 students attended from 103 high schools in 2008.
The new dates for the forum are the 24th, 25th and 26th August 2010. Please confirm your commitment as soon as possible.
We appreciate your participation in the 2006 / 2007 / 2008 / 2009 Forum and hope that you will be able to assist us in making future forums just as interesting and informative for the students.
This year parking will be subsidised by the forum and will be free to all interactive display holders. Please take your ticket to the external cloakroom where you get your name tag and we will give you a subsided ticket in exchange.
Stephanie_Wilson@wsahs.nsw.gov.au
Westmead Hospital hopes that your department is interested in participating by providing an interactive display.
Regards
Stephanie
For:
Stephanie Wilson SWAHS Trauma Coordinator
Julie Seggie Westmead Hospital Trauma Coordinator
