A group of Grade 10 students from Fort Frances High School will be educated on injury prevention tomorrow through the “Prevent Alcohol and Risk-Related Trauma in Youth” (P.A.R.T.Y.) program.
The Rainy River District Substance Abuse Prevention Team, along with its partners, participated in a two-day workshop earlier this year to learn how to facilitate the program which runs in more than 70 places throughout the U.S., Canada, and Australia.
The students will spend most of the day touring La Verendrye Hospital and also will eat lunch there. But they will eat as though they have a brain or spinal cord injury.
Using a neck brace and a special mask with a toilet paper roll attached to simulate tunnel vision, the participants will attempt to eat without the use of their fingers.
Some may have to be fed and they will take turns.
“It’s very visual,” noted Leona Liski, co-ordinator of P.A.R.T.Y. Secretariat. “We want to make it as real as possible . . . not to scare them, but to show what could happen.
“How your life could change in a heart beat.”
Liski explained the program is meant to teach students about making choices.
It will educate them about the consequences of poor decision-making in relation to risk-taking behaviours such as drinking and driving, lack of seat belt use, and not wearing a bike helmet.
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