You've just attended this year's Safety Summit, returned home to your fire department and wonder how you can spread the safety messages you have just learned to firefighters and officers in your department. Here's how: participate in the Everyone Goes Home® Advocate Outreach Program.

As you know, our efforts hope to reduce the number of preventable line-of duty-deaths (LODDs) each year - and we are succeeding. To continue this positive trend, we need firefighters like you to spread the word locally and statewide. The Advocate Outreach Program's goal is to have advocates meet with 400 individual fire departments by July 31, 2010. We need you to meet directly with firehouse chief officers, senior staff, and firefighters about firefighter life safety issues and to introduce and/or discuss the Everyone Goes Home® program. We are trying to reach to firefighters, officers, and departments that typically do not go to conferences, tradeshows, and other in-service opportunities.

To do this, we need to recruit Everyone Goes Home® advocates nationwide. We want to understand how the Everyone Goes Home® message, communication and training efforts are received and delivered to a typical firefighter or officer. We will provide you with the information to present the program, questions to ask firefighters, and a feedback tool to understand how to better serve the firefighter community. As an incentive, Everyone Goes Home® is offering $150 for your time and efforts.

If you are interested in participating the Advocates Outreach Program, please email Linda Stone at LStone1970@earthlink.net.