The Prevent Alcohol and Risk-related Trauma in Youth (PARTY) Programme is an injury prevention initiative run at Royal Perth Hospital, during which students aged 14 to 18 visit RPH to learn about trauma, ie injury.

The PARTY Programme provides useful, relevant information to young people to help them recognise potential injury-causing situations and make informed prevention-oriented choices about activities. It is also designed to help them adopt behaviours and actions that minimise risk.

In order to completely involve the students in the experience of injury and recovery, student groups are taken through the common course of injury and treatment of someone involved in a trauma, often due to risk-taking behaviours.

A variety of teaching techniques are used, including interactive lectures, videos, role-play, as well as tours of the Emergency Department, Intensive Care Unit and a trauma ward. The students also have the chance to meet an injury survivor and see first-hand what it would be like to be injured.

Please direct queries to Scott Galipo