Our last Education Officer was Colleen Caldwell, whom we are, sadly, unable to continue to employ due to the termination of our funding by MoH as a result of recent cost cutting exercises.
Colleen holds excellent references and qualifications for the job.  She is highly capable and professional in all she does.  A teacher by profession, Colleen has presented the burn prevention message in a manner targeted at the age group she is addressing and designed to inculcate an awareness of accident prevention from the earliest possible age.

The incidence of preventable burn related accidents can be reduced significantly when confronted in this way and Waikato Burn Support has offered the burn prevention programme to schools, groups, organisations and businesses for many years with results reflected in the statistics of admissions to Waikato Hospital Burns Unit.  

Speaker: To arrange a one-off speaker to your school, community group, service club, business or organisation please do not hesitate to contact us.  We will arrange a suitable date and time and be there to inform and advise on wise burn prevention techniques and first aid measures in the event of a burn related accident occurring in your home or work place.  We can still offer this facility on an ad hoc basis, though, sadly, as mentioned above, we are no longer able to offer this as part of our current programme.  We do hope, funding being available, to continue to offer this service in the future.

Other Venues To Which We Provide Speakers

While our Education Officer spends most of her time in schools in the region, there is always a Board Member from Waikato Burn Support available to speak at other kinds of events.