KPTC

In the the past few months, Kiwanians across the district have been supporting our Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Centers through fund raising and service. Whether you helped your club purchase a trauma kit for your local fire department or ambulance corp, attended the Black & White Ball, bid in our annual auction, awarded a Kiwanian a KPTC Fellow, rocked the night away at our Doo Wop, supported a child safety program or was involved in one of the many other KPTC activities this past year, we truly appreciate your efforts.

In September the KPTC Foundation at North Shore-LIJ held its annual Black & White Ball. This highly successful fund raiser gave us the opportunity to celebrate the work of many Kiwanians through the presentations of numerous KPTC Fellows and several Diamond Level Fellows. With our recent additions, our list of Diamond level Fellowship recipients has grown to six.

In addition, our KPTC Doo Wop brought out K-Family members of all ages to enjoy a night of music. In fact, our KPTC Service Leadership Committee members really got into the event by donning leather jackets and poodle skirts. The Doo Wop was truly a night of great music enjoyed by all.

We are especially excited by the increased involvement of our Key Clubs and Circle K Clubs in the KPTC mission. The expansion of the KPTC Key Club Committee into the KPTC Service Leadership Committee has strengthened our partnership with these branches of the K-Family and allowed us to get the message of child safety out into local communities even more effectively.

Our KPTC Service Leadership Committee Co-Chairs Key Club-Division 6 LTG Chris Severance and Circle K –Long Island Division LTG Rickie Santer have expanded the committee's partnership with the NYS Safe Kids Coalition. Through this expanded partnership, 18 Circle K members were trained by professional health educators to train Key Clubbers to run Safe Kids workshops in their local schools and communities. These Circle K'ers trained 13 additional Circle K'ers and 69 Key Clubbers in an interactive format that included not only safety content but also lesson design and teach-backs for quality assurance.

The KPTC year ended with our Annual Meeting, during which EMT-D.I.T. Associate Director Ro Ennis reported on KPTC's positive impact on the hospital as well our support for the Safe Kids program. She was followed by LTGs Chris and Rickie who reported on the work of our KPTC Service Leadership Committee and did a demonstration of a Safe Kids training workshop. After a trauma kit presentation, the Foundation Board presented a check for $30,000 to the hospital to continue our support of the trauma center and its educational programs. Lastly, elections were held for our 2010 Foundation Directors. Newly elected as Directors were Thomas Destio and Rich Santer.

Once again, thank you to all of you who have supported your area KPTC and best wishes for a happy holiday season and a healthy new year.

Column Posted on Web Site December 28, 2009