Nazih M. Hazime
Everyone Goes Home® Region 9 Advocate

The Advocate Outreach Program is a proven success. From personal experience, it was gratifying to sit with strangers in the fire service and create a dialogue they obviously had been waiting for. The time commitment was minimal and the reward was inspirational. There have been challenges with regional and state advocates embracing and promoting this tool for the Everyone Goes Home® program. What we do with it is up to us. We certainly have hungry state advocates and volunteers across the country waiting to support the program with whatever means possible. This is clear, as we have an overwhelming number of state advocates registered to attend the Safety Summit in March. We all have agreed to fulfill the responsibilities associated with the Everyone Goes Home® Program. This can only be accomplished with support and clear direction from within all levels of the program. All Everyone Goes Home® participants have a common passion of bringing our firefighters home safely. This can only be accomplished as one team.