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Poison
Center
Announces Regional
Poster and Video
Contest
Winners
March 2015
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The
Florida/USVI
Poison
Information
Center -
Jacksonville
at
UF
Health
Jacksonville/University of Florida Health Science Center
- Jacksonville
hosted an Awards Ceremony March 17 on
the UF Health Jacksonville campus for the nationally recognized
Regional Poison Prevention Week Poster Contest, and an inaugural
Poison Prevention Week Video Contest.
The event was in honor of National Poison Prevention Week
March 15-21, and the contests focused on the dangers of
poisonings and promoted poison safety awareness in our
community.
One hundred one students
from
the
Center’s 42-county
service
area in Florida,
and the
U.
S.
Virgin
Islands
were
recognized
at
the Awards Ceremony.
The
regional
winning
posters and the
honorable mention posters
will
be
forwarded
to the
National
Poison
Prevention
Week
Council
to
compete
against
entries
from
the
other
poison
centers
for
the 2016
poster
to
represent
next
year’s
National
Poison Prevention
Week.
Winners
of the
2015 Regional
Poster Contest
are:
Grades
K
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2
Grades
3- 5
Grades 6 - 8
All entries from the inaugural
NPPW Video Contest can be found on the Center's YouTube Channel
(Click
here for 2015 NPPW Video Contest Entries).
The entries were judged in three categories: 30-second,
60-second and 120-second video PSA's.
Winners of the 2015 NPPW Video Contest are:
1st Place:
30-second category
Mandarin Middle School;
Poison Prevention Video.
Caitie Hunter, Taylor Jones, Marshal Magee, Conner Rice
60-second category
Paxon School for Advanced
Studies; ABC's of
Safety.
Precious Rodgers
120-second category
Paxon School for Advanced
Studies; Poison -
It's Bad!
Theodore Assimenios, Abryahna Lombardo, Joirdan Warren
2nd Place:
30-second category
Paxon School for Advanced Studies; Child Proof
Your Poisons. Sophia D'Alessandro, Emily
Martinez, Jasmine Roberts
60-second category
Mandarin Middle School;
Poisons. Daysia Curry, Shelbee Mitton,
Krystiana Rego
120-second category
Mandarin Middle School;
Poisons. George Boston, Jacob Personette, Jasmyne
Rodriquez
3rd Place
60-second category
Mandarin Middle School;
Poison Prevention Video. Brandon Magyar, AJ
Robins, Cameron Smith
120-second category
Paxon School for Advanced Studies;
Poison - Challenges. Ta'Shionna
Bradford, Shawntel Coley, Melanie Lane, Mary Rudolph, Ania
WIlson
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Jacksonville, USVI, Macclenny students win top honors in 2015
National Poison Prevention Week poster contest
October 2014
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The Poison Prevention Week Council announced the winners of the
2015 National Poison Prevention Week poster contest. In
honor of this awareness week, the Poison Prevention Week Council
conducts a nationwide poster contest to educate the public about
the dangers of poisonings and the importance of poisoning
prevention.
The winning poster in each division will be featured as the 2015
National Poison Prevention Week posters. First, second and third
place winners in each division will be posted on
www.poisonprevention.org.
The 2015 National Poison Prevention Week Poster Contest winners,
from the Florida/USVI Poison Information Center – Jacksonville
service area are: Grades K-2, 1st place winner
is Aaliyah Francis; grades 3-5, 1st place winner is
Elizabeth Hernandez; and grades 6-8, 3rd place winner
is Brooke Howells.
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Jacksonville, USVI Students win 2nd, 3rd
places in 2014 National Poison Prevention Week poster contest
October 2013
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The Poison Prevention Week Council announced the winners of the
2014 National Poison Prevention Week poster contest. In
honor of this awareness week, the Poison Prevention Week Council
conducts a nationwide poster contest to educate the public about
the dangers of poisonings and the importance of poisoning
prevention.
The winning poster in each division will be featured as the 2014
National Poison Prevention Week posters. First, second and third
place winners in each division will be posted on
www.poisonprevention.org.
The 2014 National Poison Prevention Week Poster Contest
winners, from the Florida/USVI Poison Information Center –
Jacksonville service area are: grades K-2, 2nd place
winner is Kevin McAfee:
Grades 6-8, 2nd place winner is Michelle Gerardo:
and 3rd place is Tréasa Selfridge:
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Jacksonville Students win 1st and 2nd places in 2013 National
Poison Prevention Week poster contest
October 2012
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The Poison Prevention Week Council recently
announced the winners of the 2013 National Poison Prevention
Week poster contest. In honor of this awareness week, the
Poison Prevention Week Council conducts a nationwide poster
contest to educate the public about the dangers of poisonings
and the importance of poisoning prevention.
The winning poster in each division will be
featured as the 2013 National Poison Prevention Week posters.
First, second and third place winners in each division will be
posted on
www.poisonprevention.org.
More than 150 posters were submitted from around
the nation. Winners were selected in each of the three
divisions: grades kindergarten through two; three through five;
and six through eight.
The 2013 National Poison Prevention Week Poster
Contest winners, from the Florida/USVI Poison Information Center
– Jacksonville Duval County service area are: Grades six
through eight: 1st place Natalie Loos, and 2nd place Madison
Yertzell. Grades kindergarten through two, 2nd place winner is
Kevin McAfee.
1st Place Grades 6-8: Natalie Loos
2nd Place Grades 6-8: Madison Yerzell
2nd Place Grades K-2: Kevin McAfee
Winners were selected based on creativity, design
and poisoning prevention messages.
National Poison Prevention Week, scheduled for
the third week in March each year, is a week nationally
designated to highlight the dangers of poisonings and how to
prevent them. Additional information on the national
poster contest is available at the Council's website
www.poisonprevention.org.
Information is now available
for the Regional Poster Contest in preparation for the 2013
National Poison Prevention Week, March 17-23, 2013. The contest is open to
children grouped in grades K - 2nd, 3rd - 5th and 6th - 8th.
You may download the
entry forms and guidelines for the Regional
Poster Contest from this site or call the Education Office of
the Florida/USVI Poison Information Center – Jacksonville at
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| Poison Center holds
2012 National Poison Prevention Week Poster Contest Awards
Ceremony March 2012 |
Students from north Florida schools and the U. S.
Virgin Islands were honored at an Awards Ceremony to celebrate
National Poison Prevention Week 2012.
Fifty students were recognized March 1 on the UF&Shands
Jacksonville campus for their participation in the regional
poster contest sponsored by the Florida/USVI Poison Information
Center – Jacksonville as part of National Poison Prevention Week
2012 to help draw attention to the dangers of poisonings.
Two-hundred thirty-one posters were submitted to the poster
contest from several schools throughout the Poison Center’s
service area, which includes 42 counties in northern Florida and
the U.S. Virgin Islands. The posters were judged in three
divisions: K-2nd, 3rd – 5th
and 6th – 8th grades, and each student at
the awards ceremony was presented with certificates of award,
ribbons and gifts, which were donated by poison prevention
partners.
Students who were awarded 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
places in their divisions, as well as students who were awarded
Honorable Mention will have their regional contest winning
posters forwarded to the Poison Prevention Week Council in
Alexandria, VA to compete in the nationwide poster contest that
further engages the community in helping to ensure the safety of
children and adults.
The schools represented include: Carter G. Woodson School of the
Medical Arts (Jacksonville); Cypress Creek Elementary (Port
Orange); Don Brewer Elementary (Jacksonville); Emma Love Hardee
Elementary (Fernandina Beach); Hellen Caro Elementary
(Pensacola); J. Franklyn Keller Intermediate School (MacClenny);
James A. Shanks Middle (Quincy); James Weldon Johnson College
Preparatory Middle and John E. Ford K-8 schools (Jacksonville);
Joseph A. Gomez (U.S. Virgin Islands); Rymfire Elementary (Palm
Coast); and St. Mark’s Episcopal Day School (Jacksonville).
The staff of the Florida/USVI Poison Information Center -
Jacksonville congratulates all participating students on a job
very well done!
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Congratulations to our 2012 National Poison
Prevention Week Regional Poster Contest Winners
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The contest winners in each grade
level category (K-2nd, 3rd-5th,
6th-8th) were announced at an awards ceremony
held March
24th on the Shands Jacksonville/University of Florida Campus.
Click
to view Winning and Honorable Mention poster entries
Note: Full names displayed with permission of parents
Click to view photos of Poster Contest Award Ceremony
Click to view the program Sponsors
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Port Orange Student wins 3rd place in 2012 National
Poison Prevention Week poster contest
October 2011 |
A Port Orange student won 3rd
place in the National Poison Prevention Week Council Poster
Contest for the 2012 National Poison Prevention Week. Sierra
Stratton, a student at Cypress Creek Elementary School, placed 3rd
in the 3rd – 5th Grade category of the
poster contest. Sierra’s poster was among the entries forwarded
to the Council from the Regional Poster Contest sponsored by the
Florida/USVI Poison Information Center – Jacksonville. Sierra’s
poster was selected from entries submitted to the Council by
poison centers throughout the country.
More than two million poisonings are reported
each year to the 57 poison control centers across the county.
More than 90 percent of these occur in the home and the majority
occur in children younger than 6 years of age. Poison
centers focus their efforts to help eliminate needless and
costly emergency room visits by offering free and confidential
poisoning emergency help to callers on the nationwide hotline
1-800-222-1222 when accidents do occur, and educational efforts
in promoting safety to avoid them.
National Poison Prevention Week, scheduled for
the third week in March each year, is a week nationally
designated to highlight the dangers of poisonings and how to
prevent them.
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| Poison Center holds
2011 National Poison Prevention Week Poster Contest Awards
Ceremony March 2011 |
Students from north Florida schools and the U. S.
Virgin Islands were honored at an Awards Ceremony to celebrate
National Poison Prevention Week 2011.
Fifty-nine students were recognized at an Awards
Ceremony held March 24 on the Shands Jacksonville/University of
Florida campus for participating in the Regional Poster Contest
sponsored by the Florida/USVI Poison Information Center –
Jacksonville. The contest is meant to draw attention to the
dangers of accidental poisoning and emphasizing the importance
of poison prevention awareness in the home.
The Awards Ceremony honored students from the
following schools for their participation: Apollo Elementary
(Titusville); Belle Terre Elementary (Palm Coast); Branford High
(Branford); Cypress Creek Elementary (Port Orange); Don Brewer
Elementary (Jacksonville); Emma Love Hardee Elementary
(Fernandina Beach); Freedom 7 Elementary (Cocoa Beach); Fruit
Cove Middle (St. Johns); Hellen Caro Elementary (Pensacola); J.
Franklyn Keller Intermediate School (MacClenny); James A. Shanks
Middle (Quincy); James Weldon Johnson College Preparatory
Middle (Jacksonville); John E. Ford K-8 (Jacksonville); Joseph
A. Gomez (U.S. Virgin Islands); Pacetti Bay Middle (St.
Augustine); Rymfire Elementary (Palm Coast); Suwannee
Intermediate (Live Oak); Taylor County Elementary (Perry); West
DeFuniak Elementary (DeFuniak Springs); Westside Elementary
(Palm Bay); and Windy Hill Middle (Clermont).
Eighteen winning and honorable mention posters
were forwarded to the Poison Prevention Council in Washington,
D.C. for judging at the national level where they competed
against entries from all 57 U.S. poison centers. The 1st
place national winners’ posters in each grade level will be the
featured posters for National Poison Prevention Week 2012.
The staff of the Florida/USVI Poison Information Center -
Jacksonville congratulates all participating students on a job
very well done!
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Congratulations to our 2011 National Poison
Prevention Week Regional Poster Contest Winners
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The contest winners in each grade
level category (K-2nd, 3rd-5th,
6th-8th) were announced at an awards ceremony
held March
24th on the Shands Jacksonville/University of Florida Campus.
Click
to view Winning and Honorable Mention poster entries
Note: Full names displayed with permission of parents
Click to view photos of Poster Contest Award Ceremony
Click to view the program Sponsors
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Jacksonville Students win 1st, 2nd place in 2011 National
Poison Prevention Week poster contest
October 2010 |
Two
Jacksonville students are top winners in the 2011 National
Poison Prevention Week Council's annual poster contest.
The first place winning poster in the older division was created
by Chelsea Claverie. Our second place winner, also in the older
division, was Maryam Shabbir. Chelsea and Maryam's posters
were created while they were both students at James Weldon
Johnson College Preparatory Middle School in Jacksonville,
Florida and were among the many entries forwarded to the Council
from the Florida/USVI Poison Information Center -Jacksonville
regional contest. Their posters were selected from entries
submitted to poison centers throughout the country.
The National Poison Prevention Week Council,
in conjunction with the American Association of Poison Control
Centers, sponsors the national poster contest each year as part
of a year-round effort to educate communities in prevention of
accidental poisonings in the home. The contest is open to
children grouped in grades K - 2nd, 3rd - 5th and 6th - 8th.
More than two million poisonings are reported
each year to the 60 poison control centers across the county.
More than 90 percent of these occur in the home and the majority
occur in children younger than 6 years of age. Poison
centers focus their efforts to help eliminate needless and
costly emergency room visits by offering free and confidential
poisoning emergency help to callers on the nationwide hotline
1-800-222-1222 when accidents do occur, and educational efforts
in promoting safety to avoid them.
National Poison Prevention Week, scheduled for
the third week in March each year, is a week nationally
designated to highlight the dangers of poisonings and how to
prevent them. Additional information on the national
poster contest is available at the Council's website
www.poisonprevention.org.
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Poison Centers assisting with Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in
the Gulf of Mexico May 2010 |
Poison
Centers in the Gulf states (FL, AL, MS, LA, TX) have been asked
by CDC, ATSDR and the U.S. Coast Guard to assist the public and
health care professionals in these States by responding to
health-related questions and providing treatment advice for oil/dispersant-related
exposures in the Gulf of Mexico. Thirteen poison centers in
these States have banded together to supply information and
management advice for the public and health professionals and, as well, provide real time public health
data to their own State's Department of Health and the CDC.
Likewise, the American Association of Poison Control Centers'
National Poison Data System (NPDS) has been programmed to
monitor/analyze poison center data in real time and report
public health effects arising from this spill.
The Florida Department of Health has asked it's
three poison centers in the State of Florida (Florida Poison
Information Center Network) to assist them in their response to
this incident. The Centers in Jacksonville, Tampa and Miami
have trained health professional staff ready to assist with
any/all health-related questions and/or exposures related to the
oil spill.
All of these federal and state agencies are asking the
public and health professionals with health-related
questions/concerns to use the existing nationwide PoisonHelp
hotline available 24 hours a day:
This number will automatically connect you to
the poison center covering your geographic area where a
specially trained healthcare professional (nurse, pharmacist or
physician) will assist you at any time.
Additional web resources that may be of
help:
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| Poison Center holds
2010 National Poison Prevention Week Poster Contest Awards
Ceremony March 2010 |
Students from
North Florida schools and the U. S. Virgin Islands were honored
recently at an awards ceremony to celebrate National Poison
Prevention Week 2010.
Eighty-one
students were recognized for participating in the poster contest
sponsored by the Florida/USVI Poison Information Center –
Jacksonville. This event was one of several planned by the
Center in celebration of the 49th
National Poison Prevention Week (March 14-20) meant to draw
attention to the dangers of accidental poisoning and emphasizing
the importance of poison prevention awareness in the home.
The awards
ceremony was held March 16 on the Shands Jacksonville/University
of Florida campus with students from the following schools
honored for their participation: Cypress Creek Elementary (Port
Orange); J. Franklyn Keller Intermediate School (MacClenny);
James Weldon Johnson College Preparatory and John E. Ford K-8
schools (Jacksonville); Rymfire Elementary (Palm Coast): Windy
Hill (Clermont); School of the Prophets (U.S. Virgin Islands);
and, Spanish Oaks and Kings Ridge After-School programs
(Jacksonville).
Twenty-one
winning and honorable mention posters will be forwarded
to the Poison Prevention Council in Washington, D.C. for judging
at the national level where they will compete against entries
from all 60 U.S. poison centers. The national winners’ posters
will be the featured posters for National Poison Prevention Week
2011.
The staff of the Florida/USVI Poison Information Center -
Jacksonville congratulates all participating students on a job
very well done!
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Congratulations to our 2010 National Poison
Prevention Week Regional Poster Contest Winners
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The contest winners in each age
class (8 years and younger; 9 years and older) were announced at an awards ceremony
held March
16th on the Shands Jacksonville/University of Florida Campus.
Click
to view Winning and Honorable Mention poster entries
Note: Full names displayed with permission of parents
Click to view photos of Poster Contest Award Ceremony
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| Poison Center holds
2009 National Poison Prevention Week Poster Contest Awards
Ceremony March 2009 |
Forty-six students from elementary and middle
schools in Duval and Volusia counties participated in a poster
contest sponsored by the Florida/USVI Poison Information Center
– Jacksonville.
The poster contest is part of the celebration
for the 48th National Poison Prevention Week (March
15-21) drawing attention to the dangers of accidental poisonings
and highlighting the importance of poison prevention awareness
in the home and community.
This year two themes were
utilized for the national weeklong celebration: “Children
Act Fast … So Do Poisons!”
and “Poisonings Span a Lifetime”.
The top winners in each age
category of this
regional event will be announced at an awards ceremony March
17th on the Shands Jacksonville/University of Florida Campus.
These art works will be automatically entered into the
national contest. Jacksonville was home for a national
second place winner in 2008.
The staff of the Florida/USVI
Poison Information Center - Jacksonville congratulates all
participating students on a job very well done!
Click here
to view ALL the poster entries
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Congratulations to our 2009 Regional Poison
Prevention Week Poster Contest Winners
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The contest winners in each age
class (8 years and younger; 9 years and older) were announced at an awards ceremony
held March
17th on the Shands Jacksonville/University of Florida Campus.
These art works will automatically be entered into the national
contest. Note: Full names displayed
with permission of parents
Click on image for full size views |
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Posters
Winning Honorable Mention |
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Allison
Cassada
Age 12
James Weldon Johnson College Preparatory School |
Kamini
Grant
Age 10
John E. Ford K-8 School |
Jodesha
Jordan
Age 13
Eugene J. Butler Middle School |
Elizabeth
Utset
Age 13
James Weldon Johnson College
Preparatory School |
Anna Powlowicz
Age 13
James Weldon Johnson College Preparatory School |
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