Project READY (Realistic Education about Dying Young)

Palmetto Health believes that since risk-taking is a natural part of adolescence, the youth need the opportunity to see the consequences of their choices. This is accomplished through Palmetto Health’s reality-based education program called Project READY (Realistic Education about Dying Young), which exposes adolescents from Richland, Lexington, and Fairfield counties to the Palmetto Health Richland Level I Trauma Center.

During a Project READY (5hr) session, participants will:

• talk with trauma surgeons and Emergency Room (ER) doctors;
• touch and feel the real equipment used to treat injuries in the operating room;
•  see inside a real ER, trauma bay, and morgue;
•  witness a pretend trauma patient scene in the ER; and
•  interact with physical, occupational, and speech therapist and experience firsthand the daily challenges experienced by injured trauma patients.