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Prevention: New Mothers
Home Safe Home
Preventing burns and fires by educating hospitalized new moms on fire and burn safety
Preschool children are at particularly high risk for burn injuries due to their immature motor and cognitive skills, inability to self-rescue, and dependence on adults for supervision and danger-avoidance interventions. They also have thinner dermal layers compared to people of other ages, leading to deeper burn injuries at lower temperatures or shorter exposure times. When exposed to the same quantity of hot liquid, a child will sustain burns over a larger percent total body surface area than an adult (due to a child’s overall smaller body size). These factors lead to burn injuries being more common and more severe in preschoolers.
This innovative program targets new mothers when they are most open to learning new skills to protect their children. It starts with an in-hospital educational video offered in English or Spanish that all new mothers watch before being discharged from our partner hospitals at Lehigh Valley Health Network and Commonwealth Health. Parents receive a take home postcard with a refrigerator magnet that has the top tips to keep their children safe from burns that are happening to babies and toddlers here in Eastern PA.
With the support of our generous funders, this program is free to our partnering health networks. If you are interested in having this program available for the mothers in your mother/baby, NICU and PICU units, please check out this informational pamphlet and contact Cori Rolón for more information.
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Prevention: PreschoolPrevention: Preschool
Young Adventurers Club
Teaching preschoolers how to identify dangerous situations and how to handle them.
This program provides age-appropriate fire and burn safety lessons through early learning centers featuring our mascot, Flick the Firefly. Preschoolers ages 3-6 learn to identify what is hot, what is not, and what is sometimes hot. They also learn about hazards in the home and what to do if they find matches or lighters.
Participating classrooms receive a toy firetruck, classroom poster, and a classroom book on fire safety. Kids receive fun interactive lessons, a fire helmet, and a Flick firefly sticker with a letter for their parents about what they have learned.
With the support of our generous funders, this program is free to early learning centers located in Pennsylvania. If you are interested in getting this program for your children, please contact Jess Banks for more information
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Prevention: Grades K-5Prevention: Grades K-5
Flick Fire & Burn Safety (grades K-5)
Preventing burn injuries in elementary school-age children by teaching them how to protect themselves and others.
This innovative curriculum aligns with PA academic safety standards to equip your students with knowledge about potential hazards and ways to prevent burn injuries. The program uses the evidence-based Health Belief Model, that has been shown to not only raise children’s awareness of safe and healthy activities but to also influence their behavior and cause them to implement what they have learned.
By using this program, you’re empowering your students with the tools they need to keep themselves and others safe.
Our mascot, Flick the Firefly, guides your students through this Google classroom-based curriculum with Kahoot games, printable worksheets, engaging short videos, songs, and activities that allow you to adapt your teaching to diverse learning styles. We provide accommodation suggestions and extension activities so you can customize the program for your classroom.
This program has been approved as an EITC-Educational Improvement Organization (EIO) program by the Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development so eligible companies may receive tax credits for providing funds to support this program. We also accept support from individual donors and foundations. With the support provided by these generous funders, this program is free to public and charter schools located in Pennsylvania. If you are interested in getting this program for your students, please contact Jess Banks for more information.
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Prevention: Grades 6-9Prevention: Grades 6-9
The Great Escape (grades 6-9)
Preventing burn injuries in middle school-age children by teaching them how to protect themselves and others.
This teacher-directed curriculum aligns with PA academic safety standards to equip your students with knowledge about potential hazards and ways to prevent burn injuries. Participating schools receive workbooks, teacher guides and curriculum to operate the program in their school.
Topics within this program include:
- Recognizing fire hazards and keeping your home fire safe
Understanding the need for having a home escape plan, understanding the necessary components of an escape plan. - Problem-solving when various escape routes are blocked.
- Diagram a floor plan of the home and indicate two ways out of each room.
- Learning how to “shelter” in a room if escape is impossible.
- The dangers and consequences of youth fire misuse.
- Public awareness of fire safety
Understanding the need for having a home escape plan, understanding the necessary components of an escape plan.This program has been approved as an EITC-Educational Improvement Organization (EIO) program by the Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development so eligible companies may receive tax credits for providing funds to support this program. We also accept support from individual donors and foundations. With the support provided by these generous funders, this program is free to public and charter schools located in Pennsylvania. If you are interested in getting this program for your students, please contact Jess Banks for more information.
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Burn Survivor SupportBurn Survivor Support
Camp Susquehanna
Increasing resilience in youth burn survivors through peer interactions and social, emotional support
Surviving from a devastating burn requires more than just physical healing. Burn survivors and their family members must also deal with the psychological, mental, and even spiritual impacts of this life-changing injury as they adjust to their new reality.
Camp Susquehanna is a statewide sleep-away summer camp with year-round online activities for youths aged 7-21 who have had a serious burn injury and were treated in a Pennsylvania Regional Burn Center. This unique program offers young burn survivors the chance to meet other children and adults who have been through a similar experience and understand what they have been through. Kids enjoy typical summer camp activities such as swimming, sports, art, cooking, and campfires. All the opportunities, though, have accommodations for children who have things such as adaptive devices due to lost limbs, healing burn wounds, and limited mobility due to tight skin in burned areas. Although Camp Susquehanna’s campers are of varying ages, activities are geared towards each camper’s developmental needs.
The camp is staffed with experienced burn and wound nurses, adult burn survivors, fire service professionals, health professionals and other caring staff. All volunteers undergo background checks, interviews, and training in trauma informed care and resiliency.
If you are interested in volunteering, please visit our Camp Susquehanna page for more information and complete one of the volunteer applications on the volunteer info tab.