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Title: 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
  • (703) 476-4900
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