{"id":3248,"date":"2013-04-21T16:29:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T16:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/lifesmarts_announces_partnership_with_ul_s_safety_smart_ambassador_program\/"},"modified":"2021-05-11T06:48:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T06:48:12","slug":"lifesmarts_announces_partnership_with_ul_s_safety_smart_ambassador_program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/lifesmarts-announces-partnership-with-ul-s-safety-smart-ambassador-program\/","title":{"rendered":"LifeSmarts announces partnership with UL\u2019s Safety Smart Ambassador program &#8211; National Consumers League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- content_before_flip_start --><a href=\"https:\/\/savvyconsumer.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/hertzberg-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2228\" src=\"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/hertzberg-1.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"92\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a><strong>By Lisa Hertzberg, LifeSmarts Program Director<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LifeSmarts is offering an exciting new opportunity for its participants: Safety Smart! Our latest expansion effort and partnership, with Underwriters Laboratories, (UL), is offering teens a chance to focus on health and safety curriculum while giving back through community service.<\/p>\n<p>By combining efforts on a joint educational project, LifeSmarts and UL are teaming up to offer LifeSmarts participants a win-win opportunity \u2013 students gain new resources to learn about relevant topics and prepare for competition, and demonstrate their leadership skills by providing Safety Smart presentations to young children in their communities.<\/p>\n<p>Safety Smart is a program from UL that operates under the philosophy that unintentional injuries are avoidable and preventable when people make smart choices. When Safety Smart Ambassadors share Safety Smart concepts with children, they help raise awareness and inspire action. Safety Smart Ambassadors help cultivate a younger generation of children to be Safety Advocates\u2026Safety Scientists\u2026Safety Smart.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to this new partnership, LifeSmarts participants will gain from UL\u2019s vast research in safety science, which has been used to develop new competition questions, a 50-question TeamSmarts competition, a LifeSmarts U lesson, and team challenges for 2013 live competitions.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, we are encouraging LifeSmarts participants to become Safety Smart Ambassadors. Three lessons have been created for LifeSmarts student leaders to teach young children about the benefits of \u2018going green\u2019 and being \u2018healthy and fit.\u2019 We\u2019re providing the tools; now it\u2019s up to our student participants to get out there in their communities to make a difference!<\/p>\n<p>The LifeSmarts Safety Smart Ambassador program is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Quick and easy \u2013 each lesson is designed as a 30 minute presentation<\/li>\n<li>Fun \u2013 Timon and Pumbaa from Disney\u2019s\u00a0<i>The Lion King<\/i>\u00a0introduce the topics in DVDs available free to Student Ambassadors<\/li>\n<li>Educational \u2013 young children will gain knowledge about important environmental and health and safety topics, and high school students will learn along with them<\/li>\n<li>Satisfying \u2013 LifeSmarts participants will have the opportunity to provide a quality, interactive lesson to younger children, serving as mentors and demonstrating leadership in their community<\/li>\n<li>A great fit \u2013 Many students are required to do community service, participate in service learning, or complete a senior project \u2013 the Safety Smart Ambassador program helps meet all of these requirements<\/li>\n<li>Turnkey \u2013 everything you need to get started is in one place:<a href=\"https:\/\/lifesmarts.org\/resources\/health-safety-learn-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.lifesmarts.org\/SAFETYSMART<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rewarding \u2013Students who participate in the LifeSmarts Safety Ambassador program may be eligible to win prizes and scholarships. See:\u00a0www.lifesmarts.org\/SAFETYSMART\/PRIZES\u00a0to learn more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>LifeSmarts is pleased to partner with UL, and working with our dedicated and inspiring student leaders, we are excited about the positive impact this program will have across the country. We can\u2019t wait to see what our LifeSmarts Safety Smart Ambassadors will do! Join us today!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesmarts.org\/SAFETYSMART\">www.lifesmarts.org\/SAFETYSMART<\/a><!-- content_before_flip_end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lisa Hertzberg, LifeSmarts Program Director LifeSmarts is offering an exciting new opportunity for its participants: Safety Smart! 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