Partners in Prevention
On the last weekend of April, AARBF was so honored to be invited to the City of Monrovia’s 2024 Public Safety/Sensory Friendly event for Autism Acceptance, celebrating families and providing a nurturing, safe, and fascinating way to relate to first responders and community service partners. Monrovia Police and Monrovia Fire & Rescue made a great day for everyone. We were there with our N.I.C.K. program of picture-reinforced fire and burn safety messages for those who don’t always do well with written and verbal learning. This program, developed with the experts at Pyramid Educational Consultants, makes sure everyone can learn and affirm important safety messages like Stop, Drop and Roll, Cool a Burn for 5 minutes, and if there is smoke in the room Get Low and Go. We also got to meet Trixie, the three-legged therapy dog, who knows how to and demonstrated Stop, Drop and Roll!