The presenters for the program come from a broad range of clinical qualifications and specialties including pre-hospital services, medical, nursing, allied health professionals, researchers and guest speakers. The presenters and hospital departments contribute to the program as way of reducing the mortality and morbidity associated with trauma in youth.
Depending on availability, the program also features consented patients and their families in the Intensive Care, Burns and Trauma Units of the hospital. These patients and/or their families speak to the students about how injury has affected their lives.
The P.A.R.T.Y. at The Alfred team is partnered with SpinChat, an initiative of Independence Australia (www.spinchat.org.au) who aim to promote injury prevention and educate secondary students about living with a spinal cord injury after a trauma. Trauma survivors who have sustained a spinal cord injury talk candidly to the students about their experience of life pre and post trauma in the hope they will minimise the risk of injury and encourage students to link high-risk activities with consequences.