Goals and Objectives

To educate and empower youth to recognize risks and make informed, safe choices

• Identify potentially dangerous situations and behaviors through personal testimony, multimedia presentations and active participation

Reduce the incidence of risk related trauma in youth

• Provide youth with positive alternatives and strategies to encourage smart choices
• Expose youth to potential psychological and physical impacts that results from traumatic injury, using reality education
• Encourage youth to directly apply strategies learned at P.A.R.T.Y.

Increase youth’s awareness of personal responsibility for their choices

• Encourage youth to examine their attitudes, decisions, and behaviors

Increase youth’s knowledge of the consequences of injury on quality of life for the individual and the community

• Encourage youth to think about potential loss of family, friends, independence, self-esteem and control of their body as a result of an injury
• Identify the differences between injury recovery and permanent disability
• Expose youth to a variety of disability issues in the community

Promote injury prevention initiatives

• Demonstrate P.A.R.T.Y. Programs’ active participation in promotion of injury prevention initiatives and partnerships at local, provincial, national and international levels