P.A.R.T.Y. Program

What is the P.A.R.T.Y. Program

The Prevent Alcohol and Risk-related Trauma in Youth (P.A.R.T.Y.) Program is an injury prevention program that is run at Royal Perth Hospital.

Once a week during the school year, a group of young adults aged 14-18 are invited in to Royal Perth Hospital to learn about trauma (i.e. injury). The purpose of the P.A.R.T.Y. Program is to provide useful, relevant information to young people about injury, that will enable the participants to recognise potential injury-producing situations, to make informed prevention-oriented choices about activities, and to adopt behaviours and actions that minimise risk. 

In order to completely involve the students in the experience of injury and recovery, the group is "walked along" the common course of injury and treatment of someone involved in a motor vehicle accident.

Through a variety of teaching techniques including lectures, videos, simulated trauma resuscitation, tours of the Intensive Care Unit, the Emergency Department and rehabilitation wards, and interaction with injury survivors, students see first hand what it would be like to be injured.

Students are encouraged to think: "What if it happened to me?". There is candid discussion about what choices they could make in a variety of situations that would prevent themselves and their family and friends from being injured.

For more information about P.A.R.T.Y. please contact:

Jacqueline Coribel
Acting Injury Prevention Programme
Research Nurse
Trauma Services
Royal Perth Hospital


Phone: +61 8 9224 1429
Fax: +61 8 9224 1162
Email: RPHParty@health.wa.gov.au