Dare 2B Tick Aware

Ticks are active year-round in the woods & neighborhoods. Learn to spot, ID and prevent ticks and tick bites with PA Lyme Resource Network.

PA Lyme Resource Network’s Dare 2B Tick Aware Program was originally created with a CDC Preventative Health Block Grant via the PA Department of Health. The goal is to improve the use of prevention strategies, reduce tick bites, and improve early diagnosis. This program uses the most current research available and standardizes prevention messages across the state.

Facilitator: Amy Tiehel, Dare 2B Tick Aware, Program Director

Amy Tiehel, PA Lyme Resource Network – Amy has managed the Dare 2B Tick Aware tick prevention program since its inception in 2017. In this role she has coordinated hundreds of tick prevention seminars and awareness events for community, state, and government organizations. She spearheaded the distribution of 500 tick warning signs to parks across the state, as well as the Tick Check Challenge (a song and dance) winner of the 2021 Health and Human Services LymeX Healthathon. She is the founder of the Delaware County (Delco) Lyme Disease Support Group.

*Reminder – The Dare 2B Tick Aware presentation is a seminar about tick i.d, tick behavior, tick habitat, tick removal and tick bite prevention options. While there are a few slides regarding Lyme disease and other tickborne infection symptoms, this is not a Lyme disease seminar and facilitators do not discuss diagnosis, testing or treatment.

Parking is available at the center with additional street parking.

The center, bathrooms, and picnic areas are all accessible, however, the trails are rocky and uneven.

Photos will be taken of participants during this program for use by the Pennypack Environmental Center and Philadelphia Parks and Recreation. If you wish to opt out, please let us know before the program.

City of Philadelphia Covid-19 information at phila.gov.

TICK CHECK upon return and every day after nature play.

Questions? Contact us at [email protected] or 215.685.0470

Images: https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/tick-talk-how-stop-and-remove-them, PA Lyme Resource Network, Christina Moresi