ENCARE
ENCARE stands for Emergency Nurses CARE and is an injury prevention
program consisting of three separate components: Take Care, Dare to
Care, and Learn to Care.
Alcohol Awareness
Take Care is a program aimed at the 55 and over population. It
is a slide presentation with a script to accompany the slides. It is
primarily a safe-driving practices program with an emphasis on pedestrian
safety and seat belt usage.
The teenage population can benefit from the Dare to Care program.
Its main thrust is to deter drinking and driving and to increase seatbelt
usage. This interactive program depicts what Emergency personnel see
on a daily basis as a direct result of drinking and driving without
a seatbelt. This is a very graphic slide show with an accompanying video
tape. A period for questions and answers in provided at the end of the
presentation.
Youth in grades 3, 4, and 5 can benefit from a session called Learn
to Care, and alcohol and drug awareness program. The presentation
consists of a very interactive slide show and skit presentation.
Child Passenger Safety Technical Training Program
Educates nurses and others on how to teach child occupant protection
to the public and how to be resources in their communities.
Crash Course: Collaborative Approach to Injury Prevention
Educates nurse and others about injury prevention in order to empower
them to work in the community as advocates for vehicle passenger safety.
Gun Safety-It's No Accident
ENA has joined forces with Masterlock Company in a public awareness
campaign to call attention to the practice of gun safety.
Polaroid-Family Violence
"Take the Picture. Ask the Questions. Break the Cycle" Campaign. This
a training program for nurse on identifying victims of domestic violence
who visit the emergency room. Polaroid provides cameras and training.
Coming Soon:
Bicycle Safety Program
16-Hour Child Passenger Safety Training Program
Domestic Violence Program
Gun Safety Program
Information is presented to the public in a variety of ways, by providing
exhibit booths at health fairs at schools and in the community, serving
on community/government injury prevention task forces, working with
government agencies, other advocacy groups, and presenting programs
to audiences ranging from preschool to mature adults. There is no charge
for the presentations. The ENCARE organization is comprised almost solely
of volunteer registered nurses and paramedics with emergency care experience.
In north Alabama, there is one active chapter serving Colbert and Lauderdale
counties which the North Alabama Highway Safety Office supports. Other
chapters are under development.
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