Success StoryBe Aware of Look A-likes: Always Ask First
Be Aware of Look A-likes: Always Ask First
Author: Kelli Bonifer
Planning Unit: Adair County CES
Major Program: Promoting Healthy Homes and Communities (general)
Plan of Work: Strengthening Family & Consumer Sciences
Outcome: Intermediate Outcome
According to the most recent data from the Kentucky Poison Control Center, they received 79,658 calls from the public. Forty-nine percent of those calls concerned children age five and under. Two hundred and forty-nine of those calls were from Adair County.
To help educate that age group, the Adair County Family & Consumer Sciences Agent collaborated with the Family Resource Center and Adair County Primary Center offered Be Aware of Look A-Likes: Always Ask First. The students were shown examples of poison look a-likes and were educated to always ask first before they ate or drank something.
At the conclusion of the program, the students were given an evaluation. Ninety-nine percent of the students could identify a poison. 100% of the students stated they would always ask first.
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