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 The American Red Cross St. Louis Area Chapter has announced that its youth group, Friday YouthCorps, has received a grant worth 3,750 from the American Red Cross and Phelps Dodge Foundation. The grant will go toward Friday YouthCorps’ Habits of Safety Project, an endeavor aimed at educating area middle school students to deal with potential medical emergencies and make better, safer choices in and out of the classroom.
The Friday YouthCorps Habits of Safety program creates incentives for schools that offer Red Cross First Aid training to students. As part of the program, schools participating in Red Cross First Aid training will receive Habits of Safety emergency backpacks containing First Aid training kits and potential lifesaving items like shock blankets, adhesive bandages, and CPR breathing barriers. Members plan to have the emergency backpacks in St. Louis middle schools by mid to late spring of 2004.
Friday Youth Corps also plans to continue this safety education by putting out a Habits of Safety video. The video is designed to put students in emergency scenarios, in order to test their knowledge of what to do. Members are researching, writing, and producing the video themselves. They plan to have it in classrooms by May of 2004.
Friday YouthCorps is a leadership development program comprised of teenagers from St. Louis area schools. The after-school group meets every Friday during the school year at Chapter Headquarters. Friday YouthCorps has served the St. Louis community in a number of valuable ways. Over the past year, Friday YouthCorps has provided lifesaving information to other young people as part of the Red Cross Safe Schools Program.
For more information on joining Friday YouthCorps, you can contact AmeriCorps Director Deane Adam at 314-516-2717 or log on to www.redcrossstl.org.
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