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Northern New England Poison Center

 

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NNEPC Educational Materials Order Form

State-specific services and educational materials:

Maine

New Hampshire

Vermont

Quills Up - Stay Away!

A poison awareness program featuring Spike, the porcupine puppet. The program is appropriate for children in preschool to first grade and makes it easy and fun to teach this imporant topic. Quills Up includes the DVD Spike's Poison Prevention Adventure as well as classroom activities and educational materials for parents/caregivers.

Every March, the Northern New England Poison Centers offers schools free Spike Education Kits, which include the Quills Up program with student take-home packets and additional classroom activities. Visit our Spike page for more information or to reserve a kit. To order just the DVD and teacher's guide, fill out our materials order form.

Resources for Non-English Speakers and Minorities

Evidence-Based Practices in Suicide Prevention Programs(Suicide Prevention Resource Center)

Some poison-related prevention programs:

  • Brief Psychological Intervention After Deliberate Self-Poisoning
  • Emergency Department Mean Restriction Education
  • Limits on Analgesic Packaging

Science-based drug abuse education publications and teaching  materials (National Institute on Drug Abuse)

Medicines In My Home (FDA)

Poison Prevention Week Council

Scholastic News - Drug Abuse Lesson Plans and Reproducibles

Tox Town - Environmental health concerns and toxic chemicals where you live, work and play (National Library of Medicine)

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Educational Resources


 

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