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Who We Are
The Burn Prevention Network is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization currently serving 22 counties throughout Eastern Pennsylvania and Warren County, New Jersey. Our mission is to provide burn injury prevention education, materials, and advocacy throughout North America.
We serve an average of nearly 500,000 people throughout the region each year, about 90% of whom are children. Consistent results are accomplished through both direct educational program intervention and through partnerships with schools, medical and health services, fire and emergency services and other community organizations with like missions. Our on-line activities and programs extend our reach to limitless organizations and children alike.
There are approximately 486,000 fire and burn injuries reported in the United States each year. Young children and persons with mobility impairments are the most frequent victims. In Pennsylvania, over 3,500 hospitalizations for children are attributed to fire and flame injury each year. Nearly 900 of these critical fire and burn injuries are treated annually at the Lehigh Valley Health Network Regional Burn Center.
Burn care professionals estimate that over 75% of all medically treated burn injuries could have been prevented by means of behavioral and environmental modification. The Burn Prevention Network has more than 35 years of experience and proven performance in the development and effective, efficient delivery of targeted fire safety education programs – to children, parents, seniors, teachers and even fire services personnel.
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What We DoWhat We Do
Burn Prevention Network reaches the maximum number of program participants and beneficiaries through collaboration with a wide network of community partners. BPN works with fire services, first responders and emergency service groups, educators, healthcare provider organizations, community service groups, and others dedicated to spreading awareness of fire and burn safety and prevention issues, programs and services.
The Burn Prevention Network also serves as a one-stop outsourcing resource for organizations who share our mission. We provide our National Award Winning programs, rebranded for their use with their constituencies, throughout the U.S. This provides a cost effective means of delivering quality educational services and products without the expense and time required for development, pilot testing, production and validation.
Within eastern Pennsylvania, over 900 elementary and middle schools partner with us in the annual delivery of our in-school fire safety and burn prevention programs targeted at 1st through 8th grades.
Nearly 350 early care centers belong to our Safety Lines Network, sharing quarterly fire safety and burn prevention tips and alerts with over 45,000 families of pre-school age children.
Businesses, corporations and health care organizations also play a major role in supporting the delivery of our targeted programs and in sharing our materials with employees.
Social service, family protection, and mental health agencies are vitally engaged as members of our Fire and Youth Intervention Program. Over the past 10-years, this collaborative program has redirected over 500 youth who were misusing fire to cease this destructive behavior.
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Staff & Board LeadershipStaff & Board Leadership
Staff
BPN Officers
Matt Ferdock, CEO, Navitas Data Sciences
Vice President – Ed Wurster, III Director – Protective Services, PPL
Secretary – Rebecca Martin, RN Case Manager, HCR ManorCare
Treasurer, Chris Breting Agent, State Farm
Assistant Treasurer – TBD
Committee Chairpersons
Chairperson, Development – Susan Walsh, Founder/Sales Manager Sales-Link, Inc.
Chairperson, Personnel – John B. Bast, CFO,MIFireE Retired Fire Chief, City of Easton
Chairperson, Program – Steven Schneider Explosion Suppression Sales Kistler O’Brien Fire Protection
Chairperson, Advocacy – Claude E. Kohl, Jr Retired Assistant Chief, Allentown Fire Department
Chairperson Nominations – Joe Tracy, VP-Connected Care and Innovation Lehigh Valley Health Network
Board of Directors
Board of Directors:
John B. Bast, CFO, MIfireE
Retired Fire Chief, Easton Fire Department
Chris Breting, CPCU, CLU
Agent, State Farm Insurance
Catherine M. Campanaro
Administrative Manager, Bio Med Sciences
John E. Campos
Executive V.P., EMS Council of NE PA, Inc.
Russell R. Clelland, CTP, CIA
Retired Vice President & Treasurer, Talen Energy Corporation
Matthew B. Ferdock
CEO, Navitas Life Sciences
Robert J. Hobaugh, Jr., Esq.
Attorney
Gregory G. Kile
Sr. Vice President, Insurance and Payer Strategies, LVHN, President & CEO, Populytics
Claude E. Kohl, Jr.
Retired, Asst. Fire Chief of Allentown
Lee T. Laubach, Jr., CFEI,/EMC
Emergency Management Coordinator, City of Allentown
Mark Lengvarsky
Administrator, Patient Care Services, Lehigh Valley Health Network
Daniel D. Lozano, MD
Medical Director, Regional Burn Center, Lehigh Valley Health Network
James Lucey
President/COO, ETI Company
Edward A. Mann
Director of Education and Training, Provident
Rebecca L. Martin, RN, MSN
Case Manager, HCR ManorCare
Terrence Osborne
Human Resource Specialist, Middle District of PA US Probation Office
Santo Piccolomini
Piccolomini Development
Steven G. Schneider
Explosion Suppression Sales, Kistler-O’Brien Fire Protection
Baran Schultz
CEO, Schultz Technologies, Inc.
Joseph Tracy
Vice President-Connected Care and Innovation, Lehigh Valley Health Network
Bruce Trego
State Fire Commissioner, Commonwealth of PA
Susan Walsh
Founder/Sales Manager, Sales-Link, Inc.
Leo Woelkers
Burn Survivor/Survivor Advocate
Edward Wurster, III
Director-Protective Services, PPL Corporation
Teri Haddad, Ed. D
CEO/Creative Director | eMediaWorks
Jeffery J. Kelly
Director of Engineering | Service Electric Cable TV
Advisory Committee:
Jay P. Niskey
Retired, Owner of Bowman Petroleum Co.
Rev. Alexander Pocetto OSFS, Ph.D
Retired, Senior Vice President, DeSales University
Ralph H. Slider
Retired Deputy Chief, Allentown Fire Department
J. Michael Zaia
Manager, Lehigh Valley Rail Management, L.L.C
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ContactContact
236 North 17th Street
Allentown, PA 18104
610-969-3930
(fax) 610-969-3940