The Safe Saskatchewan-SEMSA media announcement held on Thursday, October 20, 2011 at Riverside Community School in Prince Albert made a splash!

Check out the media coverage below.

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Prince Albert Daily Herald - Injury prevention activity makes its debut at Riverside School

Safe Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Emergency Medical Services Association (SEMSA) have partnered in the development and execution of an injury prevention activity that will engage Saskatchewan children, youth and families. The Safe Saskatchewan-SEMSA Rebecca Trail is an interactive scavenger hunt-style game that leads participants through a series of safety stations, creating educational opportunities for families to talk about safety and injury prevention with paramedics.

“Most residents of our province think that Saskatchewan’s workplace is where most unintentional injuries occur. But away from work, people are two times more likely to have an injury, four times more likely to suffer a permanent disability and five times more likely to die from a preventable injury,” says Gord Moker, CEO of Safe Saskatchewan. “Our partnership with SEMSA is one way we can increase awareness about our unintentional injury epidemic and lead injury prevention discussions with trusted health care professionals.”

The Rebecca Trail was featured today at Riverside School in Prince Albert where 20 grade five students tested their safety smarts with paramedics from Parkland Ambulance Care Ltd. The Rebecca Trail will also be featured at the Prince Albert Family Safety Expo event this Saturday, October 22, 2011.

“SEMSA members are asked to go into communities throughout Saskatchewan and speak to a variety of health and emergency topics,” explains Krista Remeshylo, Chair of the Community Development Committee for SEMSA. “With the Safe Saskatchewan-SEMSA Rebecca Trail, we will teach children and their families injury prevention lessons while providing them with information on this important issue in an interactive setting.”

For more information about the Safe Saskatchewan-SEMSA Rebecca Trail or to see the trail in action, contact Safe Saskatchewan or SEMSA.

About Safe Saskatchewan

Safe Saskatchewan is a provincial consortium of public, private, cooperative and non-profit sector founding partner organizations. The not-for-profit organization aims to raise awareness of the impact of unintentional injuries in Saskatchewan, coordinate provincial injury prevention initiatives, and support all organizations and programs undertaking injury prevention in the province.

About SEMSA

The Saskatchewan Emergency Medical Services Association (SEMSA) is a not-for-profit organization that provides guidance, support and a common voice on behalf of its emergency medical service (EMS) members. One of its goals is to strengthen and advance EMS in Saskatchewan by ensuring high-quality, accountable patient care. SEMSA has been forging a future for EMS in Saskatchewan since 1959 and today represents 82 of 110 ambulance services in the province.
 

Safe Saskatchewan's Gord Moker will be speaking with Dave Morgan of the Listen Up at 91.3 FM show on Regina's community radio station of CJTR.

Make sure you tune in on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 from 11am to Noon. Or listen live over the Internet- go to: www.cjtr.ca.

Check out Safe Saskatchewan’s September 2011 newsletter.

Read about Safe Saskatchewan’s new strategic and operational plan. Learn what’s new with the Saskatchewan health and safety leadership charter. And find out why one paramedic from Prince Albert supports the SEMSA-Safe Saskatchewan Rebecca Trail partnership.

Click here to be connected to the newsletter: http://www.safesask.com/html/newsletter/index.cfm.
 

Safe Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Emergency Medical Services Association (SEMSA) have partnered to deliver Rebecca Trail, an injury prevention activity that engages children, youth and families in communities throughout Saskatchewan. The Safe Saskatchewan-SEMSA Rebecca Trail is an interactive safety scavenger hunt-style game that leads participants through a series of stations, creating educational opportunities for families to talk about injury prevention with emergency medical professionals.

“Most residents of our province think that Saskatchewan’s workplace is where most unintentional injuries occur. But away from work, people are two times more likely to have an injury, four times more likely to suffer a permanent disability and five times more likely to die from a preventable injury,” says Gord Moker, CEO of Safe Saskatchewan. “Our partnership with SEMSA is one way we can increase awareness about our unintentional injury epidemic and lead injury prevention discussions with trusted health care professionals.”

SEMSA is a non-profit organization that provides guidance, support and a common voice on behalf of its emergency medical service (EMS) members. One of its goals is to strengthen and advance EMS in Saskatchewan by ensuring high-quality, accountable patient care. SEMSA has been forging a future for EMS in Saskatchewan since 1959 and today represents 82 of 110 ambulance services in the province.

“While SEMSA’s community development committee is responsible for public awareness and the promotion of professionalism through education, injury prevention and partnerships,” explains Krista Remeshylo, Chair of the Community Development Committee for SEMSA, “SEMSA believes community development is everyone’s responsibility.”

Every year, SEMSA members interact with citizens in communities across Saskatchewan on a variety of topics including the value of injury prevention and safe practices. Likewise, SEMSA members are sought after for family and children’s events because they are trusted professionals and a valuable source of information.

Rebecca Trail provides SEMSA members an opportunity to have a creative safety learning activity to use in their communities. It is the type of activity that allows for maximum engagement and interaction, with every participant. There are built-in opportunities to talk to children and youth about safety, how to adopt an injury-free lifestyle and how to bring those lessons home to engage the rest of the family.

This win-win partnership translates into an injury prevention force that is mobile, achieves more than what Safe Saskatchewan alone can accomplish in both numbers and value, and strengthens the value that SEMSA members bring to the community.

For more information about the Safe Saskatchewan-SEMSA Rebecca Trail or to see the trail in action this summer, contact Safe Saskatchewan.