WIC

St. Luke's Children's frequently participates in the Quick WIC program at the Central District Health Department. This event is for the parents who receive WIC benefits and helps teach them about a variety of health, nutrition, and safety topics for their families.

For the month of October, my co-intern Alexa and I designed a program to spread the word about drug and medicine safety and accidental poisoning. We thought this was most fitting with Halloween around the corner. It also coincided with the semi-annual National Drug Take-back day in October. We made an interactive game in which the parents had to try to identify in each pairing which picture was a real candy and which picture was a medicine. It was very eye-opening for a lot of parents who could not tell the difference in the two examples. We were then able to share with them the importance of keeping medicine up away from children and locked. We also handed out flyers for the drug take-back day, informational posters and stickers about accidental poisoning, magnets with the number for the poison hotline, and activity coloring books for the kids.

This was one of the most fun projects I got to work on because I was able to construct something from scratch. From concept to execution to presentation, Alexa and I worked together to create a brand new curriculum that St. Luke's Children's can now use at future events.

WIC Safety cards PDF.pdf

For the month of August, I was able to create my own WIC program regarding back to school safety. I created these safety cards on the topics of school bus, walking, bike, carpool, and screen time safety to pass out at the Quick WIC event. I let the parents pick which cards they wanted to take based on their household and then talked to each parent for a few minutes about the most important bullet points on each card. The parents were very receptive and eager to share with me the safety practices they use at home.

My participation in these events used properties from all 7 Areas of Responsibility

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