Safety Moment – National Poison Prevention Week
March 18th starts National Poison Prevention Week! Can you believe it has been a year already? This is a great time to review prevention, first aid and emergency procedures with your scouts and scouters. A great place to start is the BSA’s Poison Control Centers Safety Moment.
Next, check out the www.poisonhelp.org website, which has a plethora of information. Remember – If an individual has collapsed, had a seizure, has trouble breathing, or can’t be awakened, call 911 immediately.
The California Poison Control System has a number of events for National Poison Prevention Week including a live presentation on their Facebook page on Rattlesnake Awareness Day on March 22.
Lastly, did you put the Poison Hotline in your phone like I told you at the beginning of the month? No? Do it right now. I’ll wait.
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Got it? Good!
Here are some of the essential phone numbers you need:
Poison Control Hotline: 1-800-222-1222
Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: 988
Scouts First Helpline 1-844-SCOUTS1 or 1-844-726-8871
GGAC Scout Executive Mike Hale 1-925-674-6150
GGAC Service Center 1-925- 674-6100
California County Emergency Response Child Abuse Reporting Telephone Numbers within the GGAC footprint
Alameda County | (510)-259-1800 |
Calaveras County | (209)-754-6452 |
Contra Costa County | (877)-881-1116 |
Del Norte County | (707)-464-3191 |
El Dorado County | (530)-642-7100 – Placerville |
Lake County | (707)-262-0235 |
Mendocino County | (707)-463-7992 – Ukiah |
Napa County | (707)-253-4262 |
San Francisco County | (415)-558-2650 |
Solano County | (800)-544-8696 |
Sonoma County | (707)-565-4304 |
Tuolumne County | (209)-533-5717 |
(Here is the full list of County Emergency Response Child Abuse Reporting Numbers)
Get them in your phone.
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