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Name:

• Traffic Informers

Target:

• To confront the (able-bodied) youth with disabled traffic victims (Traffic Informers) and therefore the possible consequences of their own behaviour in traffic.

Target group:

• 15 to 25 years old. Sub-target group 15 to 16 years old (moped drivers) and 18 to 19 years old (new driving licence owners).

Mission:

• The youth is over-represented in the traffic accident statistics and consequently also over-represented in various forms of (medical) care. To be able to build up a meaningful life with a handicap is quite a challenge

Steps:

• Within the project there are three steps:

1. The session  in front of a class by an individual Traffic Informer
2. The Traffic Informer Road Show
3. Development of a new European concept based on a. and b.

The idea:

• A disabled traffic victim recounts his story to the group. He tells this with all the inevitable emotions and points out what his handicap means to the people in his surroundings. Interaction.

Size:

• Existing groups or classes in school.

Location:

• In their own classroom.

Duration:

• One normal hour of lessons.

Content:

• The trained Traffic Informer decides about the content himself and uses the tools of his own choice.

The idea:

• The message is brought by a number of emergency service individuals, a member of the family of the victim and the victim himself. The audience is confronted with the consequences of a traffic accident and how to cope with it.

Size:

• Groups consisting of hundreds of young people.

Duration:

• One and a half hours.

Location:

• Usually a communal room in a school is used.

Programme:

• Disco
• Silence
• Introduction of the problem
• Introduction of the emergency service individual
• Commercial(s)
• Appearance of the policeman, the ambulance paramedic, the fireman, the doctor and the victim’s member of family and finally the victim.

Roles:

• The policeman, the ambulance paramedic, the fireman and the doctor are introduced with images belonging to their line of work. The story of the victim follows in which the emphasis is placed on the personal experience of the emergency service individual as a result of this specific accident.

Duration:

• Approximately 5 minutes per person.

Clothing:

• Uniform or recognisable outfit belonging to the person’s function.

Support:

• The Victim Support Group offers help to the people in the audience who may have emotional or other problems after witnessing the Road Show.

Questions:

• All co-workers are available after the Road Show to answer any questions.

Aim:

• Combine the sessions with the Road Show and utilise the strong points of both

Strong points of the sessions:

• Interaction and direct questions
• No distance (face-to-face, personal contact)
• A feeling of safety within the group

Strong points of the Road Show:

• More people involved
• Story can be heard from different angles
• Efficient use of people

Problem:

• After-care and coping with emotions

Solution:

• Supply Road Show with good after-care: individually as well as in groups. Form a panel of all those involved in the Road Show. Individual and group sessions of one or more Traffic Informer.

• Bringing together of all parties involved in the treatment and care of disabled traffic victims.
• Bringing together of all educational institutions involved.
• Forming of a group of potential Traffic Informers.
• Organising of the training and support.
• Organising of in-house training
• Organising of school visits.
• Execution: Traffic Informers will hold sessions at school
• Setting up of an adequate evaluation.
• Researching the possibilities of Road Show performances