Kokomo's Martin Honored with Child Safety Advocate Award
Indianapolis, IN (May 23, 2007)
–
AAA Hoosier Motor Club’s
Kokomo branch manager, Connie Martin, received one of six
awards May 15 during the 11th Annual Child Safety
Advocate Awards ceremony which took place in Indianapolis.
In recognition of the fact that every day, more than 39,000
children require medical treatment because of unintentional
injuries, many of which are preventable, Safe Kids Indiana
and the Automotive Safety Program, located at the Indiana
University School of Medicine, traditionally recognize both
groups and individuals who make significant strides in
Indiana to prevent unintentional injuries from one year to
the next.
Martin was designated an award recipient based on the rating
she received in five categories: Leadership, Injury
Prevention Activities, Community Involvement, Advocacy and
Merit.
As one of AAA Hoosier Motor
Club’s certified child passenger safety seat technicians,
Martin coordinates a permanent fitting station at the club’s
Kokomo office, where she, alone, inspected 249 car seats
last year.
She also works with a local
Wal-Mart in the Kokomo
area at least four times each year to promote child
passenger safety and she often speaks with new mothers about
the subject at a nearby hospital—St Joseph Hospital.
Additionally, Martin works
with Healthy Families to distribute child passenger safety
seats and information to low-income families.
She has also convinced
several local businesses that they need to be involved in
child passenger safety. In fact,
Kokomo
Chrysler, Beck’s Hybrids, Conkle Pontiac, and Transmission
Builders FCU have all sponsored car seat inspection events
and paid for the replacement seats that were distributed at
their respective events as a result of Martin’s influence.
“Connie lives and breathes
child safety and her enthusiasm is contagious,” said Greg
Seiter, public affairs manager for AAA Hoosier Motor Club.
“She is very deserving of this award.”
AAA
AAA Hoosier Motor Club is a fully tax-paying, not-for-profit
corporation offering a wide range of member services. The
405,000-member affiliate of the American Automobile
Association (AAA) works for the improvement of motoring and
traveling conditions in the state of Indiana.
AAA is the largest motoring and traveling organization in
the world with more than 50 million members.
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