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Community Outreach

The West Virginia Poison Center has one Community Outreach Coordinator.
Due to funding cuts, the Community Outreach Coordinator is part-time and covers outreach for all 55
counties at 22.5 hours a week.

The Community Outreach Coordinator, Poison Center volunteers, and community partners go into WV com-

munities to provide poison prevention education and poison center awareness programs for parents, chil-
dren, senior service organizations, and community groups.

All 55 West Virginia counties were reached with poison prevention awareness and WVPC information
throughout the year.

Poison prevention and WVPC awareness messages are provided via:

Volunteer program Website Presentations
School programs Health fairs Newsletters

Press releases Brochures Mr. Yuk stickers
Poison prevention week “Train the trainer” Flyers

Public Education Activities

Community Volunteers/
Outreach Community Total
Coordinator Partners

Fairs/Special
5 13# 18
Events

Presentations 33 50# 83

# number officially reported to the WVPC. Each year other
presentations and events with WVPC information are provided
throughout the state and not officially reported.

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