Injury Prevention

ThinkFirst is a national program for brain and spinal cord injury prevention. This is a one-time lecture to students that focuses on varying topics depending upon age – playground safety, bike safety, sports safety, concussion prevention.

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Stop the Bleed is a national program for emergency preparedness. The public is trained on effective bleeding control techniques in the face of life-threatening external hemorrhaging – i.e. how to use a tourniquet and how to pack a wound. St. Luke’s Trauma provides Stop the Bleed training within our 13-county service area.

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This is a pediatric motor vehicle safety program in collaboration with Care Management. This program provides car seats and/or booster seats to families in need. Families are screened through Care Management, and car/booster seat vouchers are provided. The vouchers are then redeemed at BuyBuy Baby for a car seat or booster seat provided through St. Luke’s Trauma.

St. Luke’s Trauma collaborates with the St. Luke’s Prenatal Education Program to provide car seat clinics to our community. Certified car seat technicians inspect car seats to ensure that they are properly installed and provide education when needed.

This is an adult and pediatric program in which St. Luke’s Trauma provides bike helmets to patients in need.  St. Luke’s Trauma also provides helmets for community events.

St. Luke’s Trauma provides this fall prevention program to older adults in our community. A Matter of Balance is an 8-session course aimed at reducing the fear of falling and thereby increasing activity levels in the older adult population.

St. Luke’s Trauma participates in this alcohol and risk-taking awareness program each year at local high schools during prom season. A “mock” motor vehicle crash and funeral are presented to high schoolers to educate them on the consequences of poor-decision making.

This is a distracted driving awareness program. St. Luke’s Trauma provides a one-time lecture to students in high school/middle school regarding the consequences of texting and distracted driving.

QPR is a national, evidence-based program for suicide prevention and is presented in collaboration with St. Luke’s Penn Foundation. The 2-hour QPR training teaches how to recognize when someone is at risk for suicide and then teaches the steps to prevent that – Question, Persuade and Refer – question if someone is having thoughts of suicide, persuade them to stay alive, and then refer them to the proper resources.