Register at: https://antioch.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpceyhrD4vHdT_oqeIzVVz4lyo_lAZdrlc
What would a school look like if it was designed with mental health in mind? With invaluable advice for school administrators, public health experts, teachers, and parents, Schools That Heal is a call to action and a practical resource to envision and implement nurturing and inspiring school environments. Healthy, healing campuses will better prepare students to take care of themselves, their communities, their cities, and their planet.
A book talk by author Claire Latané, especially for the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. There will be updates on outdoor learning in local schools and districts. Spanish language interpretation provided by Barcroft Elementary.
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The StreetSafe Lifesaving Driving Experience (https://www.streetsafeus.com/) is a non-profit dedicated to saving the lives of our youngest, most at-risk drivers. Instructors with StreetSafe will discuss risk factors for young drivers and use videos to instruct students on crash avoidance and defensive driving skills, how to properly correct when they run off the road, skid control, proper braking/steering techniques, and following distance.
The session will inform students about their top risk factors in a crash and provide guidance and instructional videos on how to drive defensively and reduce risks. With the increase we are seeing in our teen driver fatalities this would be a great session to have our teen drivers to attend. Please feel free to share with your partners.
Register at: https://www.yovaso.org/summer-retreat/
Registration must be completed by 4:00pm to receive link to connect to session at 7:00pm
The free virtual summit hosted by the Department of Motor Vehicles will feature sessions that focus on current highway safety issues to continue our efforts to decrease the number of crashes, injuries and fatalities on our roadways. Speakers from the national, state and local level will talk about a variety of topics.
We invite highway safety stakeholders from law enforcement, state agencies, non-profits, institutes of higher education, as well as other highway safety advocates to attend. You will receive instructions on how to register in coming weeks.
The Summit dates are: July 13-14 and July 20-21. Please visit HERE for registration and additional information.
Register at: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5238641158307009806
Join us for presentations and a robust Q & A dialogue with active transportation professionals, nonprofit leaders, and equitable engagement experts around what it means to practice and build authentic community engagement with diverse coalitions as the foundation for driving those vital relationships. Panelists will share their best practices for equitable work in striving for inclusive, accessible, connected, and walkable communities – through the lens of their invaluable learned, professionally practiced and lived experiences. Among the details covered, presenters will lean into the importance of acknowledging past harms and learning how to demonstrate an awareness and distinction of active transportation and walkability work as a true tool for empowerment vs. a weapon of racialized oppression. The presentations and discussion will address the following critical questions:• What are the most universal best practices in achieving equity in our work?• How can advocates, practitioners and leaders center the needs and desires of BIPOC and low-income residents?• How can we achieve buy-in and funding streams from government leaders? • How can we habitually challenge normativity in how we define safe walking, biking, mobility, and access?• Why is it imperative to get out of your demographic bubble? • How can we get overlooked community members involved in government-decision discourse?• What are examples of removing barriers for individuals to experience safe destination-based movement while lowering car dependency?• How can we build trust, empowerment and agency with communities that have been perpetually ignored, harmed, and disinvested in?• What kind of data points, projects or outreach can provide the most insight for determining connected, safe active transportation routes and services in the given community?
Register at: https://saferoutespartnership-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lc-msrTwrHNUgyrNwj6BzBQGsPPR1xf_S
This workshop will focus on community engagement tools and processes developed in response to the pandemic. We will look at case studies from around the world, drawing lessons from engagement strategies created or adapted to fit public health protocols, and explore how these strategies and tools may be incorporated into community engagement efforts even after pandemic ends. Attendees will be active participants in the workshop, discussing tools and processes they used to engage communities during the pandemic and plan to use in the future.
Speaker: Terry Schwarz, Director of Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative
Information at: https://www.ghsa.org/events/upcoming/GHSA/Law-Enforcement-Engagement-Webinar21
This webinar is free, but you must register here. Thanks to the support of our 2021 Highway Safety Champions, it’s presented as a warm-up to the GHSA’s Annual Meeting, which will be held in-person, September 11-15 in Denver, Colorado.
A constructive relationship between law enforcement and the communities they serve is essential to addressing historic disparities that face Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) and improving safety for those most impacted by traffic crashes. Providing opportunities to foster positive engagement between law enforcement and BIPOC communities is integral to building understanding and trust. Don’t miss this opportunity to explore how focusing solely on enforcement of moving violations, rather than non-safety offenses, bolstered community relations and lowered crashes in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Delve into a Connecticut initiative that analyzes traffic stop data to identify racial disparities and help law enforcement agencies institute strategies that build public trust in the communities they serve. And learn how a Central Pennsylvania-based Minority Youth Forum is helping to break down cultural barriers between State Police Cadets and BIPOC students.
Creative placemaking harnesses the power of arts and culture to allow for more genuine public engagement. Join us for a discussion with Ben Stone about creative placemaking and the role of arts in transportation planning.
Ben Stone is the Director of Arts & Culture at Smart Growth America. Ben leads the organization’s efforts to help communities across the country better integrate arts, culture, and creative placemaking. He also led the recent development of the Scenic Route.
This webinar will be one-hour in length and is hosted by the Virginia Walkability Action Institute (VWAI). Webinars are open to all VWAI alumni, as well as to people interested in learning more about the Institute.
Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/webinar-arts-transportation-with-smart-growth-america-tickets-154735499043