30 Minute Interactive Presentation
It is estimated that 1 in 5 people will have a stroke in their lifetime and 1 in 4 survivors will have a second stroke.
As a result, stroke is the leading cause of long-term disability in the U.S.
Surprisingly, people ages 18 – 45 make up 10%-15% of the 800,000 people in the U.S. who have strokes each year.
Stroke Awareness Oregon is working diligently to bridge the gap between early education and the awareness and prevention of stroke.
So that children can learn about stroke and stroke prevention using:
High-quality bi-lingual learning materials
An interactive presentation
Giveaways to spark conversations with family members and caregivers
Time = Brain! Kids can make a difference in the outcome of a stroke related incident. When we teach kids how to spot a stroke and what to do about it, they can take action. Knowing what to do greatly reduces the chances of stroke related death and disability.
Pre & post test
Stroke education
Identifying a stroke
B.E.F.A.S.T.
Early prevention
Healthy habits
Eat the Rainbow
The Salty Six
911 Dialog
Share INFO with friends and family
Decision making skills
Responsibility
How to best communicate with first responders and 911 personnel in the case of an emergency. The Stroke Heroes Training presentation teaches kids how to talk with 911 dispatch. We hope kids will never have to make this call but if they do, they will be prepared.
To learn more or schedule with us contact 541 323-5641 or email education@strokeawarenessoregon.org.
Stroke Awareness Oregon, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, relies on the generosity of the community and donors to function. Your donations or volunteer efforts with SAO and Stroke Heroes Training can significantly enhance SAO’s impact and outreach.
Thank you for your interest in Stroke Awareness Oregon! We look forward to connecting with you further. You can reach the SAO team by phone, email, or in-person at the SAO office in Bend, Oregon. If you or a loved one are displaying signs of stroke please Call 9-1-1 immediately. Time = Brain!
by Jake Sheaffer
“I once threw a canister of my supplement powder at the wall and dented it. That’s something I can’t imagine ever doing before my stroke, but it’s just another part of my recovery to work on.”
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On an early October weekend in 2019, Alesha Goodman and her longtime boyfriend Drew hiked over 50 miles of rugged desert landscape in the Ochoco National Forest in Central Oregon. They were on a nine-day hunting trip they’d been planning for months. While Drew streaked up the steep slopes of sagebrush and loose rock, Alesha tarried behind breathing heavily, fighting the searing pain radiating from the base of her skull. An active thirty-four-year-old who frequented local gyms, walked her dog daily, and hiked on weekends, Alesha never suspected the severe neck pain and nausea she’d had for the past week and a half were signs of an impending stroke. And not just one stroke, but two. Two potentially fatal strokes that would occur within an hour of each other the day after she returned from the Ochocos.
An only child, Alesha was close to her parents and her grandmother who lived on her parents’ property later in life. As a kid, she delivered newspapers in her Bend, OR neighborhood, and in her spare time, she wrote children’s books for fun and read voraciously, prompting close friends to refer to her as a “living encyclopedia of odd information.”
On the Monday morning after she got home, Alesha sat in traffic at a parkway off -ramp, still in discomfort from the neck pain and the nausea. She had new symptoms, too, dizziness and feeling faint. Regardless of the pain, she readied herself for work, but she had an uneasy feeling about her job.
Over the weekend, Alesha had received multiple text messages from her employer, a jewelry company in Central Oregon, about an issue with her company email and password, but with no cell reception, she couldn’t respond to her manager’s concerns. After searching through Alesha’s desk for her email password and not finding it, but instead finding an important legal document she’d already dealt with but had not yet disclosed to her boss, the company hired a specialist to get around the digital safeguards. That day, Alesha was let go from her position.
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