Safe Communities – Project Coordination

in cooperation with Texas Department of Transportation
"Texans Discovering Traffic Safety Solutions"

Safe Community/Assessing Community Traffic Safety
Training Agenda
Hosted by the Nueces County Safe Communities Coalition
Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi
Natural Resource Center Room 2010
Tuesday, February 10 and Wednesday, February 11, 2004

Goal: The goal of the workshop is to educate the participants on the Assessing Community Traffic Safety (ACTS) tool, marketing the safe community program, strategies for working with local employers and learn about safe community best practices.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2004

Morning Session
8:30 Registration
9:00 Introductions/Icebreaker
Program activity reports from participants
9:30
Presentation: Dr. Bill Donohue, Michigan Public Health Institute
Review the Assessing Community Traffic Safety (ACTS)
Data, Coalition News and More
10:30 Break
10:45 ACTS Presentation Continued
12:00 Lunch
   
Afternoon Session
1:30 Guest Speaker
Engineering Improvements and Resources for Communities
2:30 Older Driver Tool Kit
Dr. Bill Donohue and guest speaker on best practices
3:30 Wrap up and evaluations for Day 1

 

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2004

Morning Session
8:30 Marketing Traffic Safety Programs
Dr. Bill Donohue and guest speaker on best practices
10:30 Break
10:45

Working with local employers – Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS)
Sue Guggemos, Michigan Safe Community Consultant

Strategies for Coalition Sustainability
Dr. Bill Donohue and guest speaker on best practices

12:00 Lunch
   
Afternoon Session
1:30 Coalition Building – Ideas for Membership Recruitment and Retention
Dr. Bill Donohue and guest speaker on best practices
3:30 Evaluations and Wrap Up for Day 2