FACTS

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FACTS

• Families Acting for Community
• Traffic Safety

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What is FCCLA?

• FCCLA is a national youth leadership
  organization that has family as its central
  focus. It is a Career and Technical Student
  Organization that helps young men and women
  develop their leadership skills and address
  important personal, family, work, and societal
  issues through Family and Consumer Sciences
  education.

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What is FACTS?

• FACTS, Families Acting for Community Traffic
  Safety, is an FCCLA National Program through
  which young people strive to save lives
  advocating sober driving, seat belt use, and safe
  driving habits.
• FACTS encourages youth to put the brakes on
  impaired driving and traffic crashes. Through
  peer education, FCCLA members help their friends
  arrive alive and lower the number one cause of
  death for youth in America.

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FACTS and the Family

• Youth leaders come to realize that traffic safety
  is a family matter. They can design projects that
  help families promote basic safety attitudes that
  last a lifetime.

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Learning the FACTS can help save lives

• By educating their communities, members can
  prevent this from happening

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The 3 topic areas of FACTS
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Think SMART

• Under this topic area, members promote
  attitudes and provide events that prevent
  underage drinking and keep people from driving
  when under the influence of alcohol and other
  drugs.

Recipe For Disaster


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Buckle UP

• Members that complete projects under this
  topic area promote the benefits and safe use of
  seat belts, child safety seats, booster seats,
  and air bags.

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Arrive Alive

• This topic area focuses on the promotion of
  the importance of safe driving habits, especially
  for less-experienced drivers

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FCCLA and Safe Kids WORLDWIDE

• Both organizations have similar goals and
  purposes (focusing on the family, working towards
  a better future, etc.)
• When collaborating with each other, FCCLA and
  SafeKids can strengthen their impact on thousands
  of communities across the nation.

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Sample FACTS Projects
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• TITLE Dont be a Dum Dum, Buckle UP!
• CHAPTER Linton Public School, North Dakota
• Members checked cars as students arrived at
  school in the morning. If passengers were wearing
  a safety belt, they were given Smartie candies,
  but if they were not, they were given a Dum-Dum
  lollipop. During the week, members educated
  students, ranging from coloring activities for
  kindergartners to word scrambles and movies for
  third graders. These activities taught the
  youngsters how safety belts can save lives. At
  the end of the week, the FCCLA members felt
  accomplished after finding an increase in seat
  belt usage of 25.

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TITLE Red Light, Yellow Light, Green Light,
GO! CHAPTER Phillip A. Sharp Middle School,
Kentucky Members organized and completed a
presentation for elementary school kids in their
town that concentrated on traffic safety. They
spoke with the students about being aware when
near a road, how to be a responsible passenger in
an automobile, and the importance of safety
belts. In between speeches, chapter members
completed fun activities with the children, like
making edible stop lights, creating individual
license plates and constructing a stop sign out
of milk cartons.
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• TITLE Every Fifteen Minutes
• CHAPTER Sedan High School, Kansas
• Members collaborated with their entire
  community, including law enforcement, hospital
  personnel, and the local court system. Every
  fifteen minutes, a student was pulled out from
  class and had their face painted white,
  symbolizing that they were dead as a result of
  a fatal car crash. Fake obituaries of the dead
  were hung in the classroom, and the dead were
  not able to talk for the remainder of the day.
  After school, a fake crash was staged outside.
  Students and parents, after realizing the
  unsettling truth about the hardship involved in
  unexpected fatal crashes, then
  celebrated life
  with a huge balloon release.

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To learn more about FCCLA, its programs, and its
partnerships with Safe Kids WORLDWIDE

• FCCLA National Website
• www.fcclainc.org
• FCCLA National Headquarters
• 1910 Association Drive
• Reston, VA 20191-1584
• [phone]