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Prevention Extension
THE BPN NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2019
Working to Create
A WORLD WITHOUT BURNS!
TOGETHER WE FIGHT FOR A WORLD WITHOUT BURNS
INSIDE:
➤➤ Holiday Season Burn Prevention
➤➤Fire and Youth Intervention Program
➤➤Spirit of Courage
➤➤Camp Susquehanna 2020 Save the Date
Burns are the third leading cause of unintentional injury to children under 14 years of age in the US. Compared to the overall population, children under five are twice as likely to be seen for burn injuries at a hospital emergency department. These are the facts. The Burn Prevention Network is working to change these facts!
That begins with comprehensive fire safety and burn prevention education delivered to all children in grades 1–8 and to parents and caregivers of children 5 and under.
On a monthly basis, the Network delivers its “Home Safe Home” Kits to parents of newborns courtesy of area pediatric practices, State Farm Insurance Agents and the Mother-Baby Unit and Family Birth and Newborn Centers at the Lehigh Valley Health Network. These Kits include an educational video and a Safety Checklist to educate new parents about the risks for burn injury to newborns and toddlers and how to eliminate these risks. Over 4,000 families are reached with “Home Safe Home” each year.
Four-times each year over 300 early care centers receive a seasonal issue of “Safety Lines”, a newsletter written expressly by the Burn Prevention Network for families with pre-school age children. Each issue provides safety tips relating to seasonal activities and lifestyles as well as games and family-centered activities to reinforce burn safety. 14,000 families are annually served by “Safety Lines.”
On a much larger scale, our two school-based programs, “Flick’s Fire and Burn Safety” and “The Great Escape,” are delivered to elementary and middle schools throughout our 22-county service area. These teacher-delivered programs include grade-level lesson plans, associated student workbooks, original educational videos, and additional resources. Each lesson plan is integrated with State Educational Academic Standards. Over 300,000 children receive this training each year!
As you can see, the Burn Prevention Network is dedicated to a “World Without Burns!”
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IDEA CORNER
Make a “NATURE BRACELET” with Your Child
Wrap a piece of masking tape around his/her wrist,
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Fun Outdoor Spring Activities for You and Your Child!
VOLUME 19 ISSUE 1
A PUBLICATION OF BURN PREVENTION NETWORK
Visit a nature preserve.
Fun outdoor spring activities for you ●● and your child—page 4.
and return them to the pile.
Burn away from trees, shrubbery and buildings.
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FLY A KITE!
sticky side up. As you explore outside, help attach colorful leaves, flowers, and other interesting discoveries to your toddler’s new bracelet. When you’re finished, you can snip it off his/her wrist and proudly display it on the fridge!
Traditionally, the warmer temperatures of the spring season motivate people to clean up their homes, both indoors and outdoors. It is also a good time to think about keeping
our families safe from fires and other hazards. Yard clean-up, basement organization, and even fun outdoor activities can involve products and behaviors associated with safety concerns. In this issue of “Safety Lines”,
we present a number of tips to keep you and your family safe. Enjoy the beauty of spring as you safely revitalize your home!
BLOW BUBBLES!
Go for a hike or a bike ride.
IN THIS ISSUE
With older children, participate in a spring clean-up day within your local community.
Contact your local fire company to find out the rules for disposal of your yard waste. If your municipality allows you to burn waste, follow their instructions carefully.
●● Only burn dried yard waste when there is no wind.
For more information, visit:
●● Never leave burning materials unattended! Safetylines Quarterly Newsletter | Spring 2018 Edition
www.burnprevention.org
Written and researched by Jessica Banks, BPN Prevention Education Director
SPRING IS IN THE AIR!
Grill and fire pit safety Spring clean up
YARD CLEAN UP
If you didn’t tackle the project before winter arrived, rake the dried leaves that fell around the shrubbery of your home.
Remove the dried branches from bushes and plants such as fall mums to give the new blooms room to grow.
●● Keep a hose nearby with the water turned on.
●● Keep a rake handy to collect stray leaves
Plant a flower garden.
Dear Teacher or Health Educator,
Thank you for recognizing the importance of teaching students fire and burn safety! Enclosed are our “Flick’s Fire and Burn Safety” program materials for Third Grade. These materials are being offered at no cost to you, in appreciation for your partnering with us to provide vital fire and burn prevention education to your students and their families.
This classroom kit includes your lesson plans (including specific academic standards the lessons address), as well as an activity-filled workbook for each student. The curriculum
is designed with 5 lessons, each approximately 30 minutes in length, and can be taught individually or in conjunction with one another.
Online at www.burnprevention.org/teachers-corner you will find the downloadable background content needed to teach these lessons, as well as a “Stop, Drop, Roll, Cool and Call” video.
Please be sure to pre and post test your students, and use the results and evaluation form included in this document (or at the online link included above) to let us know how the lessons went.
Title of Unit:
Grade Level:
Number of Lessons:
Developed by:
Flick’s Fire & Burn Safety
Three
5, plus pre and post test
Burn Prevention Network
Content Standards
Language Arts
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a
Health, Safety and Math
text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and
Education • • 10.2.3.D
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.MD.C.5 Recognize area
as an attribute of plane figures and understand concepts of area measurement. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.MD.C.5.A A square with
s h i a d v e e l e “ o n g n e t h s 1 q u u a n r i t e , c u a n l i l t e ” d o f “ a a r u e n a i t , as q n u d a c r a e , n ” i b s e s a u i s d e d t o t o measure area.
convey ideas and information clearly.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions
Identify the steps in
a decision-making • process.
(one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY. SL.3.1.C Ask questions to check understanding of information presented, stay on topic, and link their comments to the remarks of others.
• 10.3.3.A
Recognize safe/unsafe practices in the home, • school and community.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.OA.A.1 Interpret products of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 5 × 7 as the total nexuammbpelreo, fdoebscjericbtes ainc5ognrtoeuxtpisnowf h7icohbjaectotstaelancuhm. Fboerr of objects can be expressed as 5 × 7.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.1.D Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion.
Objectives
Resources
Students will be able to
• Identify dangers that will cause clothing to ignite.
• List tips to prevent clothing ignition.
• Demonstrate “Stop, Drop, and Roll” method to extinguish clothing fire. • Explain proper burn first aid procedures.
• Describe how to make a call to emergency.
• Identify dangers that cause fire and burns in the home.
• Identify safe/unsafe items in their home.
• Design an escape plan.
Essential Questions
• How does understanding about fire prevention help our community?
• What are ways to prevent home fires?
• What strategy can you use to extinguish a clothing fire?
• What are the key steps in burn first aid?
• Stop, Drop, Roll, Cool and Call Video (online at www.burnprevention.org/ teachers-corner/)
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Thank you for your cooperation! Sincerely,
Jessica Banks
Prevention Education Director, Burn Prevention Network
• Lesson Plan
• Background Content (online at www.burnprevention.org/teachers-corner/) • Student Workbook, one per student
Accommodations Suggestions
• Additional time on assessments
• Open-book or open-note tests
• Read test and directions to student
Student Workbook Grade 1 Flick’s Fire & Burn Safety
www.burnprevention.org
Name:
©2019 Burn Prevention Network. All rights reserved.
Featuring Flick the Firefly and her friends Stop, Drop, Roll, Cool, and Call
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Let’s plan “THE GREAT ESCAPE”!
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“When it comes to fire safety, practice makes perfect!” Use the grid below to draw a diagram of the rooms in your home. Use symbols to designate windows, doors, stairs and smoke alarms. Draw red arrows on your diagram to show at least two escape routes from each room. Draw a designated outdoor meeting place. Discuss your plan with your family and PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE IT!
The Great Escape
For more information, visit:
Written and researched by Jessica Banks, BPN Prevention Education Director
If you can’t answer “yes” to all of these questions, it’s time to plan and practice an escape from your home with your family! Children as young as the age of three can follow a home escape plan!
www.burnprevention.org
VOLUME 18 ISSUE 3
A PUBLICATION OF BURN PREVENTION NETWORK
Why is it important to have and practice a home escape plan?
●● The majority of fatal fires occur in the home and at
night.
●● The smell of smoke won’t
always wake you!
●● Fire produces toxic gases that
could put you into a deeper sleep.
●● Having working smoke alarms in your home cuts your chances of dying in a home fire by 50%!
●● You and your family can survive a fire in your home if you know how to react quickly and correctly.
IN THIS ISSUE
Fire Safety Tips
Planning “The Great Escape.”
Practice Makes Perfect
Children as young as 3 can follow a home escape plan
escape?
Fire is scary for everyone, but especially for young children. Smoke is thick and black, and you can’t see through it like TV shows would have you believe. When a smoke alarm goes off in the middle of the night, you must know what to do, and be able to react quickly. Fire can spread quickly through your home, leaving you as little as TWO MINUTES to escape safely once the alarm sounds. Children regularly practice fire drills in school; yet very few serious fires ever happen there. So, why not plan and practice drills in your home?
●● Would your children know two ways out of every room?
●● Do they know how to open windows and screens if necessary?
●● Does everyone in the family know where to meet once safely outside?
●● Would your children know how to shelter in a room if they are not able to
Developed in partnership with: A program of
www.homesafehome.org
Funded in part by
Burn Prevention Network • 236 North 17th Street • Allentown, PA 18104-5605 Phone: (610) 969-3930 • Fax: (610) 969-3940 • www.burnprevention.org
The State Farm logo is a registered trademark
of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
A program of the Burn Prevention Network
Dear New Parent,
It’s not easy being a new Mom (or Dad)! There is so much to learn. Allow us to help you with one of the more important tasks of parenthood ... keeping your child safe.
The Home Safe HomeTM Program has been developed with you in mind.
Please take a few minutes to view the Home Safe HomeTM educational video at www.homesafehome.org. Then, also take a few minutes to review the Home Safe HomeTM Checklist.
We may not be able to give you more sleep, but we can give you some peace of mind knowing that you are prepared to safeguard your child from burn injury!
Home Safe HomeTM is a program of Burn Prevention Network, www.burnprevention.org
Student Workbook Grade 6 The Great Escape
©2019 Burn Prevention Network. All rights reserved.
Flick’s Fire
& Burn Safety Featuring Flick the Firefly
Teacher’s Guide Grade 3
www.burnprevention.org
©2019 Burn Prevention Network. All rights reserved.
Sponsored by Endorsed by
and her friends Stop, Drop, Roll, Cool, and Call
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The tagline of the Burn Prevention Network is, “Creating a World
  WithoutBurns!”Tobemorespecific,ourmissionistoreduceboth the incidence and severity of burn injury, promote the appropriate care for burns and support those who survive serious burn injury. So, how are we doing with that?
In the early 1980’s, over 2 million burn injuries per year were reported in the USA. In 2018, that number is estimated at 400,000, an 80% decrease! Similarly, fire and burn-related deaths in 1980 were near 10,000 per year. Last year, the American Burn Association reports a total of 3,655 deaths from fire and burns. That’s a 63% reduction!
Furthermore, a 2018 study released by the American College of Surgeons confirmed that there has been a “dramatic increase in burn injury survival over the past 30 years.” According to study author David N. Herndon, MD, FACS, chief of staff and director of research at the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Galveston, “Mortality has decreased three to fivefold since the 1980’s.”
So, there has been both a decrease in the number of persons being burned, an overall reduction in the severity of burns, and a greater likelihood of surviving serious burn injury.
On the surface, it indeed does appear that we are winning! Let’s look at some of the reasons!
The aforementioned American College of Surgeons study cites the following advances for the improvement in survivability: improved protocols for management of inhalation injury; focus on nutrition management to combat infection
and aid in healing; and receiving early
burn excision and skin grafts immediately
following injury.
But what about the impressive reduction in the number of persons being burned? The answers here are more complex and difficult to document. Certainly, one contributor is better product design and regulation. To be specific, most cigarettes
sold in the US now are mandated to be self-extinguishing if not actively inhaled. Add to that the fact that over 75% of all private residences now have at least one installed smoke alarm. Another recent injury prevention product design includes mandated
protective screens for glass-fronted gas fireplaces, which keep small hands away from extremely hot surfaces.
Education also plays an important, but more difficult to document role in burn prevention. The Burn Prevention Network is a national leader in this arena! Our targeted prevention programs reach over 400,000 persons at highest risk to burn injury each year. Messages such as, “Stop, Drop and Roll”, “Crawl Low and Go” and “Hot Liquids Burn Like Fire” have become universally understood.
We may be winning, but victory cannot be claimed until this devastating injury is even more infrequent. Within our own communities, the restrictions on the sale of dangerous fireworks have been recently relaxed. Many neighborhoods resemble virtual war zones during the week of July 4th! Mandated residential sprinklers in new construction was removed from the Pennsylvania Building Code several years ago. Reversing these two unsafe actions would further reduce the
incidence of injury and expensive property damage.
With your support, the Burn Prevention Network will continue to educate, advocate and support those in need in our quest for a
“World Without Burns!”
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During the holidays, spending time in the kitchen is a natural part of family customs. We typically have more “cooks in the kitchen” than normal, and often involve our kids in the preparations. But did you know that Thanksgiving is the leading day of the year for home fires involving cooking equipment? Unattended cooking is the leading factor in these fires. It’s important, while enjoying family time, that we keep our loved ones safe.
If your kids and grandkids would like to help, allow them to assist with prep before things get busy and crowded in the kitchen! Do so safely, allowing them to mix and measure ingredients, but
once the stove and oven are being used, keep younger kids out of the kitchen altogether. Even things like coffee and gravy can splash and cause serious burns!
As food preparation kicks into high gear, stay
If you decide to give a deep-fried turkey a try, it’s important to follow these tips to keep your family safe:
●➤ Keep fryers off decks, out of garages and away from your home.
●➤ Thaw your turkey completely and dry thoroughly before immersing it in the oil.
●➤ Do not leave the fryer unattended.
●➤ Never operate a fryer in the rain or snow.
●➤ Place the fryer on a level surface and never move it once it’s in use.
in the kitchen, especially when cooking on the stovetop. Keep an eye on the turkey, too, and don’t leave the home once it’s in the oven.
When things get hectic, we tend to be less focused on safe behaviors. Make sure things like oven mitts, dish towels, wooden spoons, paper towels and food packaging are away from hot surfaces such as stovetop burners.
From everyone at the Burn Prevention Network, we wish you a happy and safe Thanksgiving and Holiday Season!
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]]></page><page Index="4" isMAC="true"><![CDATA[     PLAYING WITH FIRE
 “Isn’t experimenting with fire something all children do?”
“Boys will be boys.”
“It’s a phase he will grow out of.”
While curiosity about fire is absolutely a natural part of child development, unsupervised experimentation with fire can have devastating outcomes! Curiosity about fire arises in children around the age of three, and that is when we need to start teaching them about the dangers of fire and its appropriate uses by adults.
When kids fall through the prevention cracks, and begin to “play” with lighters and matches, we need to switch to an interventional approach. The BPN’s “FYI” (Fire & Youth Intervention) program is designed to do just that. When a child is referred to our program, we provide, free of charge, an assessment
by a licensed Mental Health Professional to determine the child’s motivation behind the fire misuse. This is important to determine the best intervention. Motivations can range from curiosity, which can often be resolved with education, to “a cry for help”, which can necessitate more intensive professional mental health engagement in addition to prevention education.
We also provide a Home Safety Check by a fire service professional, follow up recommendations and fire safety/ prevention education for the entire family to produce a more fire safe environment.
When families complete this program as suggested, we achieve a recidivism rate of less than 2%. The national recidivism rate for untreated inappropriate fire setting by youth is 65%!
Fire misuse is a dangerous behavior which left untreated can have devastating consequences. If you know of a youth who is participating in fire misuse, let us know! Our program is available in Lehigh, Northampton and Berks Counties for youth ages 7-17. All referrals and care maintain the strictest confidentiality.
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An off-duty firefighter and an emergency medical technician who found themselves in the middle of a catastrophic motor vehicle accident and a 13-year-old girl who saved her sister and her dog were several of the people recently honored on October 1st during the 14th annual Valley Preferred Spirit of Courage Awards Celebration held on the campus of Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg in Bethlehem, Pa. The event recognized eight first responders and everyday citizens for acts of heroism or commitment to burn education.
A burn survivor who has made it her life’s work to help other survivors, especially children, was also recognized.
The honorees were joined by a special guest speaker, Greg Stube, former Green Beret and Afghanistan war veteran who suffered severe burns and injuries during battle. Stube inspired the audience with his story of survival and triumph.
The Valley Preferred Spirit of Courage award program was started locally by the Burn Prevention Network in partnership with Valley Preferred and Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) to recognize persons who have risked their lives to save others from a fire. The program also recognizes individuals and groups who have done an outstanding job promoting fire safety or burn prevention education.
Valley Preferred, a provider-led, preferred provider organization, sponsors the program to raise public awareness about burn safety and to recognize people who put others ahead of themselves. “The people we are honoring this year demonstrate incredible bravery and the potential we all have to make a difference,” said Valley Preferred executive director Mark Wendling, MD. “These heroes exist in every community, and Valley Preferred is proud to be part of something that recognizes that.”
Burn Prevention Network executive director Dan Dillard said this event brings together first responders, health care professionals, life-safety educators and others to solve difficult and costly community challenges. It helps fund specialized training for firefighters, support programs for burn survivors and training for 400,000 children every year in fire safety and burn prevention practices. “We are guided by our vision of working with partners and communities to create a world without burns,” he said.
   THE FOLLOWING HONOREES WERE RECOGNIZED AT THE EVENT:
SPIRIT OF COURAGE AWARDS
Larry Anderson
Chief, Wellsville Fire Company
Constance Ehrhart
Emergency medical technician, Wellsville Fire Company
Todd Heckman
Chief, Williamsport Bureau of Fire
Joseph J. Stepansky
Chief, Freeland Fire Department
Marcela Marcune-Brown
Hamburg, Pa.
Christopher Keenhold
Assistant chief, Bath Volunteer Fire Department
Joseph Fulse
Firefighter, Palmer Municipal Fire Department
WALTER J. OKUNSKI PHOENIX AWARD
Elizabeth Dideon Hess
Licensed clinical social worker and co-director, Camp Susquehanna
PARTNERS IN PREVENTION AWARD
Matthew Brett
Chief, Kempton Fire Company
        Spirit of Courage award winner Marcela Marcune-Brown, father Nils Marcune and sister Coral
     Nominator, James Alercia, deputy chief, Palmer Municipal Fire Department and Spirit of Courage award winner, firefighter Joseph Fulse
THANK YOU SPONSORS
Over 40 sponsors made the 2019 Valley Preferred Spirit of Courage possible.
Meet our sponsors here!
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]]></page><page Index="6" isMAC="true"><![CDATA[    WALTER J. OKUNSKI, MD, FACS
July 10, 1937 – March 26, 2019
Walt Okunski had a way of announcing passion for burn care and his commitment
 his presence when he entered a room. It had nothing to do with seeking attention or wishing to be noticed over others present. Walt’s calling cards were his deep, resonant baritone voice and the smooth, faint aroma of cherry pipe tobacco that clung to his clothing. That, along with his warm smile, genuine interest in each person he encountered and sense of authority born of experience proclaimed humbly, “The Doctor is in the Room!”
Walt was on the forefront of the advancement of burn care in the U.S. and certainly here in the Greater Lehigh Valley. He did his internship at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Syracuse, New York, surgical residency at Upstate Medical Center and his plastic surgery residency at Allentown General Hospital. He was chief of plastic surgery at the U.S. Naval Hospital St. Albans in Queens New York during the Vietnam War. This is where both Walt’s
to burn prevention took root.
Along with Leonard Pool, he founded
and served as the first Medical Director of the Regional Burn Center at Lehigh Valley Hospital as well as many other leadership appointments to include: President of the Medical Staff; Chief Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; and Director of Residency Program.
Walt played a critical role in founding the Burn Prevention Foundation as a spin- off of Burn Foundation headquartered in Philadelphia. He remained, throughout his career, an outspoken advocate for the importance of burn prevention as an essential component of the burn care team. It can be said, without exaggeration, that the Burn Prevention Network would not be here today had it not been for Walt Okunski’s championship.
Walt continued to support, fund and participate in his beloved BPN until the very
June Okunski, B. Daniel Dillard, BPN executive director, and Walter J. Okunski, MD
end. We were blessed to have him and will continue to see his influence in our continued growth to come even when our memories of his deep voice and the lingering smell of his pipe tobacco begins to fade. Toward that end, the Burn Prevention Network has renamed the Phoenix Award to the Walter J. Okunski Phoenix Award. This prestigious recognition is annually awarded at the Valley Preferred Spirit of Courage celebration to an outstanding burn survivor who, like the mythical bird, rises out of the ashes to serve and guide fellow burn survivors on their healing journey.
                       Join the fight for a world without burns. Find out how at:
WWW. BURNPREVENTION.ORG
236 N. 17th Street, Floor 2 Allentown, PA 18104-5605
   CAMP SUSQUEHANNA 2020!
A place where children who have experienced burn injury can grow and realize their potential while having FUN!
 Mark your calendars for Camp Susquehanna 2020
2020 Theme: “BE THE CHANGE!”
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