Traffic Safety Advocates for Sale

I really miss this stuff. I do. Above you see a photo of my former work parter Cheryl Dupay and myself hanging out with the Safety Patrol statue that proudly stands in front of the main entrance to the Auto Club Group (AAA) headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan. There are thousands of safety patrollers in Michigan and we, along with our other team members April Morrison-Harke and Gary Bubar, loved training and motivating them.

Did I tell you that I really miss it? All four of us do. Yes, this blog post is pretty self indulgent, but it's also an opportunity for someone.

See, I've been faithfully posting traffic safety reminders and updates for several months now as a means of maintaining my skills, contacts and sanity. Well, here is one more great traffic safety tip for everyone: There is an excellent team of four traffic safety advocates scattered around Michigan that have found themselves, well, without a job, but with no loss in passion for what they had been doing for so long. Perhaps you know of an employer that could use one of them.

Within this group of four you've got two of the State's Child Passenger Safety Instructors, a Governor's Traffic Safety Advisory Council member, someone who certifies people who CERTIFY traffic safety trainers, public speakers, teen driving instructors, senior driving specialists, Certified Driver Improvement Program instructors, school traffic safety evaluators, safety board members, pupil transportation trainers, truck safety specialists............ Heck, we've worked with police, principals, pupils, parents, prosecutors, bus drivers, students that ride buses, engineers, nurses, fire departments, EMS, NHTSA, MDOT, USDOT, FHW, CPS, ADTSEA, MDTSEA, MPTA, OHSP and a wide variety of other letter combinations.

OK, seriously now, I know I'm getting a bit over the edge here, but I'll have to admit that I'm getting a bit worried and concerned for our group. The practical matter is that we all need jobs, and it's not looking good for being able to stay within the industry that, between the four of us, we have spent over 100 years in. My traffic safety tip and reminder for anyone reading my words this week is this: There are some real traffic safety education/advocacy resources available right now, and they would like nothing more than to be able to thrive and serve within a new team. Don't be shy about passing along ideas and referrals. We won't be shy about accepting them.

Be safe.