Dare 2B Tick Aware Seminars

Bring DARE & tick bite prevention to your community!

Our certified DARE facilitators are ready to provide you with an incredibly informative webinar or seminar. Whether you're part of a small local group (gardening club, library club, outdoor recreational club, etc.) or a larger company looking to keep employees safer outdoors, Dare 2B Tick Aware was created for you. Choose from the standard 1-hour seminar, 30-minute short program, or request a customized/longer or more advanced seminar. Seminar topics include:

PA Trends | Tick Habitat | Tick Life Cycle | Diseases Ticks Carry
Prevention Strategies: Personal, Yard & Pets
Acting if Bitten by a Tick | Recognizing Early Symptoms
Seeking Help if You Get Sick
And much more!

DARE VIRTUAL:
ZOOM SEMINAR

Specifically for your group, date/time determined by you, presented by a Certified Dare 2B Tick Aware facilitator via Zoom, our Virtual Seminar offers the same presentation as our in-person seminars (details about what is included below in the FAQs). Dare materials are downloadable.

DARE CLASSIC:
IN-PERSON SEMINAR

Our original in-person seminar at your group’s location, date/time determined by you, presented by a Certified Dare 2B Tick Aware facilitator. The Classic seminar includes hard copies of all DARE brochures and Tick I.D. cards.

Frequently
Asked
Questions

  • For more information or to schedule your seminar, complete and submit the form contact DARE Program Manager Amy Tiehel. Info that helps us to confirm a facilitator for you is:

    • Date for seminar

    • Time

    • Address of seminar location

    Once we have this information, we contact all of our facilitators in your region. When someone confirms, we put you in direct contact with her/him to work out all the final details.

  • Seminars and webinars are free. However, we always appreciate DONATIONS! If you are a corporate or for-profit organization, please contact us for details and fees.

    • The presentation is PowerPoint, so having a projector and screen available to our facilitator is necessary. We have also projected the PowerPoint onto a wall, but a screen tends to be easier to see.

    • A microphone can help too, especially if you expect a large group. We want to make sure all attendees can hear our facilitator.

    • Generally, a conference room, classroom, library, or church is appropriate. Really, any space that is large enough to accommodate your expected number of attendees.

    • A table to display all of our DARE brochures and samples for you!

    • Schedule a webinar using our scheduling form.

    • We’ll then send you a Zoom link that you can share with all interested parties.

    • Interested attendees register directly with us, so we manage the registrations.

    • After the webinar, we ask attendees to take our Dare survey.

    • PA Trends

    • Tick Habitat

    • Diseases Ticks Carry and Tick Life Cycle

    • Prevention Strategies: Personal, Yard & Pets

    • D – defend yourself and property

    • A – avoid tick habitat

    • R – remember tick checks and shower

    • E – eliminate ticks correctly

    • Acting if bitten by a tick

    • Recognizing early symptoms

    • Seeking help if you get sick

    And much more!

  • The Dare 2B Tick Aware materials are available on our Dare Materials page. Click on it and you will see all of our brochures:

    • Dare to Prevent  

    • Dare to Act  

    • Dare to Prevent: Pet/Yard  

    • Dare to Know/Symptoms Insert

    • Tick I.D. Card

    • Get Outdoors Prevention Card 

    School Materials

    You can access our school materials on the Dare Materials page:

    • Tick Bite Report

    • Outdoor Activity/Field Trip Prevention Information

    • School Nurse Poster

    • Dare to Recognize

  • To be a DARE facilitator you must complete a four-step certification process:

    • Orientation phone call

    • Walk-through of the PowerPoint presentation (via phone)

    • Observe a seminar

    • Do a teach-back – reviewed/graded by DARE program manager

    The DARE program is currently looking for facilitators with a background in science, microbiology, public health advocacy/education, healthcare, and Lyme advocacy. We are also looking specifically for facilitators in Northwest and Southwest PA. However, if you are not in these two regions, we welcome your interest as well! For more information, and to fill out a facilitator application, please email the DARE Program Manager, Amy Tiehel at atiehel@palyme.org.

Seminar Testimonials

Community leaders, advocates and educators are sharing their feedback after experiencing our Dare 2B Tick Aware program. Click here to see what they’re saying – and learn why you should bring Dare 2B Tick Aware to your community group!

“One thing that I have pushed on the employees this past year after having attended a Dare 2B Tick Aware seminar is the benefit of treating from the knee down and not just exposed skin. After we started really encouraging the employees to, at a minimum, to pretreat their boots with Permethrin we saw a huge decrease in tick bites. I don’t know if that can be attributed to that or the super-wet year we had (PA Lyme note: a wet year means MORE ticks), but compared to years past we had almost no tick bites after doing that.”
— Mike Johnson, Adams Electric, Adams County