The LowCountry Alliance for Healthy Youth (LCAHY) and their youth coalition, Teens for Healthy Youth (THY), educated parents and caregivers about medicine safety and Rx Drop Box locations during the Town of Bluffton’s Safety Spooktacular Event. LCAHY Board Members, staff, and LCAHY interns distributed Halloween bags that included LCAHY’s Talk Early and Often Fact Card, LCAHY’s Rx Fact Card with Year-Round Rx drop-off locations, and Deterra Bags. Teens for Healthy Youth also passed out Medicine Safety Tips to parents, candy to trick-or-treaters, face painted children, and gave them coloring sheets with prevention plus wellness tips. Overall, more than 100 informational Halloween bags were distributed during this event. Providing information during October National Medicine Safety Awareness Month is an activity in LCAHY’s 12-Month Action Plan to prevent and reduce medicine misuse under Strategy 1 Providing Information. LCAHY and THY plan to participate yearly in the Town of Bluffton’s Safety Spooktacular Event.
LCAHY Board Members, LCAHY Interns, and LCAHY Staff hosted an informational table during the Safety Spooktacular Event at Bluffton’s Oscar Frazier Park to educate the community about the proper disposal of medications during National Medicine Safety Awareness Month.
A LCAHY Board Member representing the parent sector talks to parents about proper medicine disposal and distributes LCAHY Rx Fact Card.
LCAHY Board Members in the Law Enforcement and Health Professional sectors were involved in Safety Spooktacular.
Teens for Healthy Youth hosted an informational table during the Town of Bluffton’s Safety Spooktacular event to educate parents and caregivers about Medicine Safety.
Teens for Healthy Youth face-painted youth during Safety Spooktacular.
Teens for Healthy Youth members provided parents/caregivers with the THY Medicine Safety Tip Fact Card in English and Spanish.
Prevention Plus Wellness Coloring Sheets were provided to the kids trick-or-treating.
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