Transcript Partnerships for protecting our water sources and public

Anna McCartney
Marti Martz
Pennsylvania Sea Grant
What is Sea Grant?
The National Sea Grant College Program includes 32 state Sea Grant
programs located in every coastal and Great Lakes state and Puerto
Rico.
Administered by NOAA, Sea Grant focuses on environmental and
economic issues in coastal communities.
Focus Areas:
•Sustainable coastal development
•Healthy coastal ecosystems
•Safe and sustainable sea food
supply
•Hazard resilient coastal
communities
Undo the Great Lakes Chemical
Brew: Proper PPCP Disposal
Education and Outreach - six main audiences
Goal: reach 1 MILLION PEOPLE around the
Great Lakes basin in TWO years.
How is this possible??
graphic courtesy of Milwaukee
Metropolitan Sewerage District
Successful partnerships
Sea Grant partners IISG, NY, OH, PA
Medical communities
Educators and students
Erie Times-News in Education
General public
Policymakers
Education and Outreach
Newspaper inserts
Billboards
Factsheets
and
posters
Teacher Workshops and Presentations
The Domino Effect
Partnerships exponentially increase number of people reached
630,000 so far
Collection events
Law enforcement, school of pharmacy, PA representative
Hornaman
University of Maine Mail back
 Add picture of mailback envelope
Medical community partners
 LECOM
 UPMC Hamot
 AVMA
 Health Department
Medical community partners
 LECOM
 Collection events
 Data Collection
 Pharmacy curriculum and student rotation
“This is a great way for students
to actively learn more about
medications, patient adherence,
patient safety, the environment,
drug policy and drug abuse. All
these aspects are vital to the
education of a future
pharmacist.”
Medical community partners
AVMA
Medical community partners
Health Department
Educator/student partners
 NIE
 Service learning (Earth Action)
 Penn State Behrend Environment Classes
 Pharmacy students (LECOM) on the LECOM page
General public partners
Gained through presentations
Anglers
Community Groups
Service learning projects (educators, students,
student families and peers, the community)
Thru collection events
Springhill Senior Center (outreach to residents)
Law enforcement (long term partner in controlled drug disposal)
Thru mailback programs
University of Maine
Convention and other displays
Policy makers
 April 2011 Pharmaceutical Pollution
Task Force meeting
 Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative
Webinar for elected officials around the Great Lakes (71 municipalities)
 Product Stewardship Institute
 Earth Action
Better news coverage
By the numbers
People reached
Collection Events
Pills collected
Teacher Workshops
Service Learning Projects
Advice for other Communities
Find a willing partner (or two!)
Each community has different potential partners (PPCP manufacturers, medical professionals, law
enforcement, state and local health agencies, consumers, and PPCP manufacturers)
Collaborate to stretch your resources
By sharing our education/outreach materials with LECOM faculty and students and Earth Action
educators and students we have gained 500+ additional projects spokespeople
Involve the media (!)
Partners have different reasons for getting involved in an education and
outreach or collection effort (reducing diversion, reducing unintentional
poisoning, reducing environmental impact, reducing waste), but we can all
agree that getting drugs out of circulation and properly destroying them
benefits our community.
Lessons learned