Introduction
Traffic Informers and roadshow
What is
the project?
| Name: |
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| Target: |
- To confront the
(able-bodied) youth with disabled traffic victims (Traffic Informers) and therefore the
possible consequences of their own behaviour in traffic.
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| 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).
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| 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
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| Steps: |
- Within the project there
are three steps:
- The session in
front of a class by an individual Traffic Informer
- The Traffic Informer Road
Show
- Development of a new
European concept based on a. and b.
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What is a
session?
| 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.
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| Size: |
- Existing groups or
classes in school.
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| Location: |
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| Duration: |
- One normal hour of
lessons.
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| Content: |
- The trained Traffic
Informer decides about the content himself and uses the tools of his own choice.
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What is the Road
Show?
| 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.
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| Size: |
- Groups consisting of
hundreds of young people.
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| Duration: |
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| Location: |
- Usually a communal room
in a school is used.
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| 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.
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What does
everybody do?
| 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.
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| Duration: |
- Approximately 5 minutes
per person.
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| Clothing: |
- Uniform or recognisable
outfit belonging to the person’s function.
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| 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.
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| Questions: |
- All co-workers are
available after the Road Show to answer any questions.
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The
European campaign
| Aim: |
- Combine the sessions with
the Road Show and utilise the strong points of both
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| Strong points of the sessions: |
- Interaction and direct
questions
- No distance
(face-to-face, personal contact)
- A feeling of safety
within the group
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| Strong points of the Road Show: |
- More people involved
- Story can be heard from
different angles
- Efficient use of people
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| Problem: |
- After-care and coping
with emotions
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| 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.
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Procedure
- 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
Website: www.traficinformers.nl |
