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.