Keep Kids Alive Drive 25™ - It’s About Kids! It’s About Safety! It’s About Time

Invite Tom Everson, founder of KEEP KIDS ALIVE DRIVE 25®, to support community leaders through on-site consultation to develop your local plan for initiating the campaign.

KEEP KIDS ALIVE DRIVE 25® SERVICES

Consultation: Consult directly with your community in developing a plan of implementation for the campaign. Support services include facilitating planning, providing educational resources, help in identifying funding sources, and tailoring the campaign to meet the needs and possibilities present in your community.

Training: Tom facilitates training of your planning team; helping to identifying key contacts in forming your team, as well as to identify opportunities and means for rooting KEEP KIDS ALIVE DRIVE 25® in your community for the long term.

In addition, Tom offers Parenting, Family Life, and Youth Development Presentations and Workshops. These include:

No Need to Speed® - Growing Healthy Families in Busy Times
In the midst of the busyness of everyday life, take time to slow down and focus on what is most important. Our busyness can negatively impact the quality of time we share together as family. Grounded in solid research and common sense No Need to Speed® - Growing Healthy Families in Busy Times focuses on affirming and nurturing your family’s strengths. Along the way, you will discover:

A framework of 8 supports for promoting healthy growth for all family members.
A ”Top 10 List” of skills to promote healthy child, youth and family development.
4 Keys to healthy family development.

Treat yourself. Turn off the phone. Put the computer to sleep. Disconnect the cable. Take time out to refresh, refocus, rejuvenate, and re-envision what family life is all about.

Parenting at the Speed of Life©
The key to effective parenting is recognizing that first and foremost we are called to be teachers of our children. Parenting at the Speed of Life© introduces parents, teachers, and other adult guides to three basic tools for teaching children and young people the skills necessary to build healthy relationships throughout life. Practice in implementing these tools is an essential part of this presentation/workshop.

These Tools Include:

How to Teach for Success
How to Discipline Towards Self-Discipline
How to B+ (Be Positive)

Take time out to refresh your parenting and family perspective through Parenting at the Speed of Life©

Flashing Your Brights© - Caring in Difficult Times
Flashing Your Brights® - Caring in Difficult Times presents a series of five tools to support young people and adults alike in being effective helpers for both peers and family members when dealing with difficult times. This interactive presentation will help you to address issues such as problem drinking (or other drug use), eating disorders, suicidal concerns, and other tough issues. Practice in implementing these tools is an essential part of this presentation/workshop.
These tools include:

How to say what you see
How to say you care
How to say what you know
How to set your boundaries
How to share hope

Dare to care by participating in Flashing Your Brights® - Caring in Difficult Times

EDUCATION and PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
As an educator, trainer, public speaker, author, and consultant on youth, family, and education issues, Tom has made hundreds of presentations to organizations throughout the United States. These include school districts, faith communities, social service agencies, law enforcement, and programs directed towards high-risk youth and families. He has 20+ years of practical experience working with young people, adult educators, parents, and families.

Highlights include training and resource development during 7+ years as Director of the Center for Adolescent and Family Spirituality and as Director of Religious Education at Father Flanagan’s Boys Town. Served as a Co-Director of Formation for the diocese of Kalamazoo, MI, as a youth minister in Houston, TX, as a high school teacher and coach, and as a campus minister in a university setting. Published several resources including Pathways: Fostering Spiritual Growth Among At-Risk Youth, Caring Skills for Christian Families, The Rainbow Collection (A five-volume Youth Resource), and Plug Into the Power.

Currently Tom is developing curriculum and training resources for Flashing Your Brights® -How to be an effective helper for someone abusing alcohol or other drugs. He is also the creator of the traffic safety campaigns Keep Kids Alive Drive 25® , Check Your Speed® , No Need to Speed® , SEAT BELTS – FASTENATING!® , STOP! TAKE 3 TO SEE® , and Stop Means Stop® .

Tom has earned a Masters in Religious Education from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, TX and a Bachelor’s Degree in Theology from Saint Louis University. He resides with Wendy, his wife, and their four children in Omaha, Nebraska.

Tom can tailor presentations and workshops to meet the needs of your organization. For more information, please contact Tom at (402) 334-1391 or at Tom@kkad25.org.

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