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Organ Tissue Donation Awareness (OTDA)
2005
- 2006 OTDA Grant Announcements and Details
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District: |
Grant
Amount:
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Project
Name
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| Cambria Heights School
District |
$3,060.00
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OTDA
at Cambria Heights
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At
Cambria Heights, the Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Education
project will be implemented
in the middle school in the Health, Drama, and English classes
for 8th graders. The 8th graders will present their materials and
a survey to other students (including in the high school) through
OTD Awareness Day programs, to be held 3-4 times per year. Other
products that the students will develop and share include: an
electronic movie, written materials related to the PSSA prompts,
and demonstrations to be shared with all local taxpayers. Cambria
Heights project is proposed to reach 1,050 students and community
members. This is the second year of involvement for Dr. Wess and
the first for Cambria Heights School District. Dr. Wess is the
newly elected Superintendent of this district. Congratulations
and good luck, Dr. Wess! |
| Contact: |
Dr.
Lawrence Wess at (814) 674-6072 or wesslj@chsd.k12.pa.us
Appalachia IU #8 – Cambria County |
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| School
District: |
Grant
Amount:
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Project
Name
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| Dunmore High School |
$5,000.00
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Raising
OTD Awareness through Education
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| Project
Activities: |
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Dunmore
High School plans to implement OTDA Education in order to expand
their already existing curriculum content. Due to individual experiences
with donation, several teachers, a student, and the student’s
family would like to address donation issues in a cross-curricular
and sustainable fashion and they feel that an OTDA mini-grant award
would facilitate that. Some of the content areas for implementation
will be: health and physical education, Advanced Biology, Psychology/Sociology,
Speech Composition Science (ethics), and Drivers' Education. Among
the numerous classroom and school events proposed are: Donation
Awareness Days, classroom research and speech projects, guest speakers
and a field trip to a tissue bank. The educators at Dunmore High
School believe that between approximately 600 students in grades 7-12,
though the grant is specifically for implementation in grades 9-12,
will be exposed to some activities directly related to the OTDA
Education Project mini-grant.. |
| Contact:: |
Ms.
Diane Pegula at (570-346-2043 or dianesp3@yahoo.com
NE Educational IU#19 - Lackwanna County |
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| School
District: |
Grant
Amount:
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Project
Name
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| Edison Fareira High School |
$5,000.00
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Team
Edison OTDA Project
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| Project
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This
program will be implemented at the Edison Fareira High School Skills
Center. The Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Education Project
(OTDA) curriculum will be used in an inter-disciplinary way through
Health Career Pathway classes, including Physiology and Anatomy,
Writing and English, Health resources, and Drivers' Education. Students
will explore such issues as organ and tissue donation related to
anatomy and physiology, decision-making strategies related to the
driver’s licensing procedure, career planning and decision making,
and, finally, the impact on their families and community at large.
Some of the grant money will be used for school and community-based
activities such as: a peer mentoring education program, student
presentations to feeder schools, a bi-annual assembly, Team Edison
participation in the Gift of Life Dash, in the Philadelphia Hispanic
Day Parade, and in World AIDS Day. |
| Contact:: |
Ms.
Veresta Hyman at (215) 324-9440 or vhyman@phila.k12.pa.us
Philadelphia IU #26 – Philadelphia County |
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District: |
Grant
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Project
Name
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| Hampton High School |
$4,027.00
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Wellness
II: Decisions for Life
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| Project
Activities: |
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This Organ and Tissue Donation
Awareness project will be a timely addition to the curricular content
at Hampton High School. Recently, there have been several school
and community members whose lives have been touched by donation in
real and painful ways. Due to these events, the school is highly
enthusiastic about implementation. At Hampton, all juniors, beginning
in the 2005-2006 school year, will be required to pass a new health
unit, entitled Wellness II. A group of five faculty members will
participate in designing a unit on organ and tissue donation awareness,
initially using material provided in the OTDA Curriculum Framework
and Classroom Toolkit, as part of the Wellness II course. This course
will support the Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Health, Safety
and Physical Education in two areas: Concepts of Health, Standard
10.1, and Healthful Living, Standard 10.2. Each year approximately
250 eleventh graders will participate in this instruction. Most of
these students have a driver’s license, making this an appropriate
age at which to encounter and discuss important adult decisions. |
| Contact:: |
Dan
Freideman at (412) 486-6000 ext. 1018 or friedeman@htsd.k12.pa.us
Allegheny IU #3 - Allegheny County |
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District: |
Grant
Amount:
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Project
Name
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| Ridley School District |
$3,825.00
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Extending
a Hand of Hope to Save Lives
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| Project
Activities: |
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The OTDA Curriculum framework
will be implemented a Ridley School District primarily via their
Human Anatomy and Physiology I and II classes for Junior and Senior
students. Ridley School District also hopes to bring in speakers
from the Gift of Life Speakers Bureau to discuss organ and tissue
donations to their science classes, as well as to Health and Physical
Education Classes. The science teachers in charge of teaching the
OTDA material will show other science teachers at the Delaware County
Science Teachers Mini-Convention at Strath Haven High School and
the Pennsylvania Science Teachers Association Convention at Hershey
how they can easily implement the OTDA material into various courses
at the high school level. Students will actually perform an ELISA
test showing antigen-antibody reaction using BIO-RAD’s Immuno
Explorer Kit that was purchased with part of the grant money |
| Contact:: |
Dr.
Richard Clevenstine at (610) 534-1900 ext. 1267 richard_clevenstine@ridleysd.k12.pa.us
Delaware County IU #25 - Delaware County |
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| School
District: |
Grant
Amount:
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Project
Name
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| Shenandoah Valley High
School |
$3,432.00
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Organ
& Tissue Donation - Student, School, & Community Awareness
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| Project
Activities: |
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At this time Shenandoah
Valley High School is in the process of revamping their curriculum
to align it with PA Academic Standards, making it the perfect time
to incorporate OTDA into classes. The OTDA framework will be incorporated
into what is already taught in the Biology II course and integrated
into the Anatomy and Physiology course. The school is also working
to find a way to fit the OTDA framework into all grades of English.
Through these courses, Shenandoah Valley High School hopes to educate
over 550 students about organ and tissue donation. Some of the suggested
activities for OTDA integration include guest speakers, field trips
to the Hershey and/or Geisinger Medical Centers, and activities and
projects, such as ideas for senior projects and poster contests.
With grant money the school plans to purchase encyclopedias and CD-ROMs
on the human body. |
| Contact:: |
Pamela
Schmumack at (570) 462-1958 or pschmac@ptd.net
Schulykill IU #29 - Schuylkill County |
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For more information regarding this OTDA Education Project, please contact
Melissa Monti at (717) 606-1795 or melissa_monti@iu13.org
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