Aupair Safety meeting
Kansas City had its March safety meeting Sunday March 11, at the Johnson County Communications center. This is a brand new facility housing a state of the art
9-1-1-call center.
14 Aupairs , the area director and her daughter showed up at the center at 1:30pm. We all met in the lobby and chatted for a while waiting for everyone to get there. Our tour started at 2pm. Heather Beabout, a former Aupair Care host mom is a Kansas deputy and she helped us facilitate the tour. We started the tour with a CPR refresher course given by Sergeant Brenda Gammell. She showed us adult, child and infant CPR and we learned what to do if someone was choking. After this Heather Beabout talked to the group of 9-1-1 calls and showed a short video. We were then able to simulate a 9-1-1 call with Heather. They had phones set up and an aupair would call 9-1-1 with a made up story and Heather would walk them through the call. She also let us know that if the aupair felt her English was not strong enough to ask for an interpreter, they can provide interpreters for most languages. We then concluded with a tour of the 9-1-1-call center and we were able to see the officers at work answering 9-1-1 calls.
The second part of the tour was at the Olathe fire department. We drove a few miles to the fire station where we got a tour of the building and then a tour of the fire truck where the girls were able to climb in the truck and look at all the gear. Some of the girls were also allowed to try on all the gear that the firemen wear from boots, to Oxygen tank and axes. This seemed to be a high light of the tour. At the end we got a quick lesson in what to do in case of a fire in the home. Always know two ways out of the house, teach small children to stand by an open window and throw their toys out so the firemen can locate them and also have a fire escape plan written out in a visible place in the home.
The girls enjoyed this meeting and felt like they learned a lot.
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