Achievements
Honorable Mention—Nonfiction Santa Barbara Writers Conference
Honorable Mention—Nonfiction Santa Barbara Writers Conference
I received this honorable mention for a chapter of Fifteen Forever in June 2018.
Receiving this honorable mention for my work in progress for Fifteen Forever encouraged me to keep writing and finish my manuscript.
The Santa Barbara Writers Conference brings fantastic authors, faculty, and staff together with talented, warm-hearted writers for one week in June. Special thanks to Monte Schulz for sponsoring this annual event. I believe my Kristie delights in the joy of laughter because at the top of this certificate is the image of Snoopy typing the words, “You Can Go Home Again If You Want To.” (2018, photo by Steven Priano)
Pull Over, Have No Regrets
PursuitSAFETY’s unique drivers’ education program, PULL OVER: Have No Regrets, provides a critical missing component to our nation’s teen drivers’ education curriculum: how to interact with law enforcement during a traffic stop. Our speakers successfully incorporate their interactive presentation into any teen driver-education program. We engage the teens. We start by asking questions, and we encourage them to ask us questions. We share with teens the deadly consequences that can occur if they decide to flee from law enforcement. Teens who flee are more likely to crash than not because of their inexperience, irrational behavior, and fear. When fleeing they engage in driving recklessly and are distracted by the officer in pursuit. Their eyes are on the rear-view mirror and not on the road ahead. Car crashes are the #1 killer of teenagers. No driver-education course is complete without PULL OVER: Have No Regrets. Let’s get PULL OVER included in every driver’s education classroom.
Our speakers provide teens with what they need to know when stopped by police. Teens will hear how on any given day, PursuitSAFETY receives stories from across the country and around the world about how a teenage driver has fled from the police with deadly results.
- Most drivers who flee are between the ages of 13 and 25.
- The #1 reason teens flee is fear. We are talking about teens not involved in a criminal act. They fear that their parents will become angry with them if they get a ticket.
- Speakers easily incorporate their interactive PULL OVER presentation into any teen driver-education program.
Teen Driver information is on the PursuitSAFETY website.
Officer Training and Safety Tip Videos
With help from members of our law enforcement community and Glenn Morshower, PursuitSAFETY’s spokesperson, created a series of officer training and safety tip videos. These short video clips are available at PursuitSAFETY.
