Significant health and safety issues continue to plague the world. Safe America has a plan to deal with many of these issues and to lay a framework of community leaders who will marshal forces to deal with emerging health and safety issues. Under the banner WorldSafe, Safe America is building a coalition of business and civic leaders who will carry the program across the globe and build a network of leaders to combat health and safety challenges worldwide.

The Michigan Resource Center, formerly the Traffic Safety Association of Michigan (TSAM), is aligning itself with Safe America. Beginning in February, the Lansing-based nonprofit will be known as a Safe America 'operating unit' and also will serve as the Midwest Center for Safe America. The center's staff is pictured on the left with SAF President Len Pagano (2nd from left). Pagano saluted the 40-year-old Michigan nonprofit for its leadership in transportation safety.

Safe America and NBC are collaborating on WorldSafe - a global safety education campaign - with a goal of launching the first campaign activities in Beijing in conjunction with the network's coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.

JohnDavid Howard of Perry, Georgia, literally drove away with the title of America’s Safest Teen Driver 2007 in the Safe America Foundation teen driving contest, SafeTeen America Driving Challenge held in Roswell, Georgia on December 15. The contest was the first for what is planned to be an annual event.

About 100 City of Chicago government and Chicago area business leaders got together in early December to particpate in a computer-simulated Pandemic Influenza outbreak and to share ideas on strategies to combat such an eventuality. The seminar was conducted by the Safe America Foundation and the Midwest Business Group on Health and was sponsored by GlaxoSimthKline and Purell .

The Safe America Foundation conducted a briefing to a standing-room-only crowd on Capitol Hill on October 25. The topic of the lunch briefing was The Foundation's 2008 Safety/Health Priorities. Safe America President & CEO Len Pagano presented the Foundation's Top 10 Safety and Health Priorities for the coming year. Click here to view Mr. Pagano's presentation. The new A Safe America Perspective was shown.

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The number of nonprofit organizations is growing rapidly. Many are formed to provide education and recreation opportunities for our kids. This rapid growth also presents a greater opportunity for persons with criminal backgrounds to seek employment or volunteer with these organizations so that they can have direct contact with the children. Safe America and ChoicePoint, Inc.