P.A.R.T.Y. Program

Mission Statement

To promote injury prevention through reality education, enabling youth to recognize risk and make informed choices about activities and behaviours.

Goals and Objectives

1. To educate youth to recognize risks.

• 1.1  Identify potentially dangerous situations and behaviours through personal testimony, multi-media presentation and active participation.


• 2.2  Expose youth to potential psychosocial, emotional and physical impacts that result from traumatic injury, using reality education.

2. To increase youths’ awareness of personal responsibility for their choices.

• 2.1  Encourage youth to examine their attitudes, decisions and behaviours.


• 2.2  Provide opportunity for self-evaluation.

3. To increase youths’ knowledge of the consequences of injury on quality of life for the individual and community.

• 3.1  Encourage youth to think about potential loss of family, friends, independence, self-esteem and control of their body, as a result of injury.


• 3.2  Identify the differences between injury recovery and permanent disability.


• 3.3  Expose youth to a variety of disability issues in the community.

4. To empower youth to make informed, smart choices.

• 4.1  Provide youth with positive alternatives and strategies to encourage smart choices .


• 4.2  Encourage youth to directly apply strategies learned at the PARTY Program.

5. To promote injury prevention initiatives.

• 5.1  Demonstrate P.A.R.T.Y. Programs’ active participation in the promotion of injury prevention initiatives and partnerships at local, provincial, national and international level.

6. To contribute to a reduction in the incidence of risk-related trauma for youth.

• 6.1  To demonstrate a reduction of risk-related trauma for youth.


• 6.2  Provide opportunity for ongoing program evaluation.