We are delighted that the Embrace Life Campaign continues to have impact even after it has finished. Our winning entry participants are now working on a grass-roots road safety project in Kenya.

We congratulate The National Youth Parliament of The Gambia for taking part in the Embrace Life Campaign and thank members for their entries!

The event is ann international multidisciplinary event showcasing current research on new directions in the areas of teen mobility, the paradox of speed, and youth engagement in mobility choices. This will be an interesting academic understanding of young people’s involvement in road safety choices. This event will be streamed live to the Web (to be archived here) for later viewing.

When: 8:30 am to 1:00 pm (NZDT), Wednesday 15 February, 2012 (or click for local time which may be 1 day earlier)
Live Stream: You can watch it free online anywhere in the world. After you register, you’ll receive access to links to a calendar reminder and the live stream. We will also email you a reminder the day before.

SYMPOSIUM AGENDA
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(New Zealand times)
8:30  Welcome and Overview
8:45  Professor Hank Weiss (University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand) – ‘Deep change and adolescent mobility health’.
9:15  Associate Professor Paul Tranter (School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, UNSW@ADFA, Canberra, Australia) – Keynote Address: ‘The urban speed paradox: youth perspectives on time pressure, transport and health‘.
10:15 Morning tea break
10:35 Dr Bruce Simons-Morton (NIH Prevention Research Branch, Rockville, MD, USA) – ‘The role of parents in adolescent transport decisions‘ (via Skype).
11:10 Arthur Orsini (Urbanthinkers, Vancouver, Canada) – ‘Engaging teens in healthy transport decisions‘.
11:45 Teen panel discussion – Facilitated by Arthur Orsini – A discussion with local non-driving teens and the studio and online audiences.
1:00   Wrap-up 

Avenir Sante are young people who have come together, and carry out preventive actions for the benefit of other young people! The young people involved are usually same age making exchanges of information and chats more freely, without taboos and without preaching the morality of risk-taking.

Avenir Sante want to help by making young people think, informing and directing (They say ‘We are not professionals and therefore we do not instruct young people on how to act’)

The organization’s themes focus on road accidents, addictions: tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, AIDS and STDs), there are 240,000 young people per year on their study sites, party in the street, in short, where they are !

Creating preventative actions is difficult which is why Avenir Sante offers a framework for action, they form and accompany them on the actions through training.

Actions are held in seven regions: Ile-de-France, Rhône-Alpes, Midi-Pyrenees, Languedoc-Roussillon, Pays de la Loire, Auvergne and Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur!

They say, ‘We just hope to be useful and that the association will grow, grow, grow!’

In our efforts to bring attention to road safety projects and organizations working with young people all around the world, this month, YOURS puts the spotlight on Avenir Sante. The French organization translated, Future Health works on preventing risky behaviour with young people on areas such as road safety, alcohol and drug addiction and sexual health. The organization was founded in 1998 and works with nearly 250,000 young people every year!

Avenir Sante are young people who have come together, and carry out preventive actions for the benefit of other young people! The young people involved are usually same age making exchanges of information and chats more freely, without taboos and without preaching the morality of risk-taking.

Avenir Sante want to help by making young people think, informing and directing (They say ‘We are not professionals and therefore we do not instruct young people on how to act’)

The organization’s themes focus on road accidents, addictions: tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, AIDS and STDs), there are 240,000 young people per year on their study sites, party in the street, in short, where they are !

Creating preventative actions is difficult which is why Avenir Sante offers a framework for action, they form and accompany them on the actions through training.

Actions are held in seven regions: Ile-de-France, Rhône-Alpes, Midi-Pyrenees, Languedoc-Roussillon, Pays de la Loire, Auvergne and Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur!

They say, ‘We just hope to be useful and that the association will grow, grow, grow!’

With regards to road safety the organization opeates under the following principles;

We want to change the headlines for Monday morning!

The results are clear: the road deaths decreased each year (-7.5% in 2008 compared to 2007). Yeah, but not for kids! The amount of young people being killed is not declining, even worse! In 2008, there’s been 1.7% of deaths among 18-24 year olds (always / 2007). Avenir Sante explain that this is the same with drinking and driving: frankly, we can do better. 5.5% of drivers (all ages) involved in an accident had a blood alcohol level that was illegal. This figure rises to 16.3% in case of fatal accidents.

Then, we decided to act. There’s already a lot of things organized: opera “Sat“, “Blow, you know” and event organizers (student association, clubs …) are a lot of things. We do not want the title of a Sunday or Monday morning newspaper  to show  a car in the ditch with five young in it!

Avenir Sante think that prevention is really necessary and that it can work: young people just want to have a fun night and a fun night is back alive!

Then we go: let’s go to discos in the evenings students in concerts and even before we act (on-site study in, day in the street …). We we want to empower young people, with our instruments, through their participation. We act as a team and we’re all young! We address the risk in general because the causes are many: alcohol, cannabis, speed, fatigue.

 Avenir Sante’s message is not anti-party: it’s just taken anti-risk.

Welcome to 2012, a year full of promise and lots of incredibly exciting activities for road safety across the world! On January 1st, many people make an extra effort to uphold new year commitments and resolutions. We want to get active, lose those extra pounds gained during Christmas, quit smoking, make more time for friends and so forth. This year, why not include a road safety new year’s resolution? Its easy and something that requires commitment for years to come; to be safe on the road, be a road safety ambassador and to preserve life.

You can also show your support by joining the facebook page 10 Road Safety Commitments, initiated by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crecent and show your are committed to road safety.

Simple steps can help us survive incase of a road crash but also we can be safe as any kind of road user to ensure we preserve our lives for many years to come!

We wish you all a very Happy New Year and know that you will join us in making road safety a lifelong resolution!