Joseph Matthews This is Me

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1. 1. The Signal

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   Published on: 6/12/2003   Last Visited: 6/12/2003

   Program Coordinator Joseph Matthews started the Junior Paramedic program more than two years ago. Through his experience as an emergency medical technician in tough areas of Los Angeles, he witnessed first-hand that many children didn't understand emergency procedures. "I was a third-grade teacher a couple of years ago, and I moonlighted at night at AMR," Matthews said. "I noticed that the majority of the population didn't know what the system was. "I thought, why not get the ambulance to the schools and do more than just show and tell," he said.
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   "The first program we did, (Matthews) ended up with a national award," Reynolds said. "When he came back, there were 20 schools who said, ‘Hey, we want your program.'" Seven states expressed interested in bringing it to their schools, he said. The AMR Junior Paramedic group has administered the program in six schools in the last six weeks. Emergency responders all over the county have reported that children do apply what they've learned in the program. "(AMR) responded to five calls ourselves, where we walked in and a child has said, ‘I know junior 9-1-1, I made the call,'" Reynolds said. One child saved his mother's life by calling, and another called when his pregnant baby-sitter collapsed. "We want more stories in the newspaper about kids saving lives," Matthews said.

2. 2. Whittier Daily News

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   Published on: 10/12/2002   Last Visited: 10/12/2002

   Joseph Matthews, junior paramedic program coordinator with AMR, said AMR was invited, and district officials chose the school.
   
   He also visited Covina Elementary in Covina in September. Schools must be within the Los Angeles County fire and sheriff's department boundaries. The private company boasts reaching 10,000 students with its training that was started by Matthews three years ago when he was a third-grade teacher in Lynwood Unified School District and working at AMR part-time at night.
   
   The first year, one school was targeted, in 2001-02 school year it was increased to 10 and this year the company plans to take the emergency training program to 20 schools.

3. 3. 082503beducation

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   Published on: 8/24/2003   Last Visited: 8/31/2003

   As Joe Matthews, coordinator of the Junior Paramedic Program for American Medical Response, spoke to the crowd of students, another paramedic standing behind him fell to the ground, apparently unconscious.
   
   Matthews, who designed the program that has been presented for free to over 26,000 students throughout California, called out for two volunteers students who would assist him with this "emergency."
   
   Two eager students came forward and, as they had trained for all week, one sat by the unconscious man to check for vital signs and stabilize his head while the other grabbed a phone and called 9-1-1.