Peer Mentor Training - oCTOBER 2025
FSS Peer Mentoring provides bereaved family members or those seriously injured and their caregivers with a connection to a volunteer peer support mentor. Our FSS mentors are all individuals who have been through similar experiences and are dedicated to helping others survive these life-altering tragedies. Join the training to learn more and become a mentor.
What to Know Before and After Sharing Your Story in Public: Tools & Best Practices for Crash Victims
Join Families for Safe Streets to learn best practices to help diminish trauma, anxiety or overwhelm before/during/after story sharing for World Day of Remembrance. Sharing your story in front of others whom you don’t know can be very difficult, especially when those hearing your story include lawmakers, public officials, and others who have the power to enact the change you seek. Together, we will practice skills to help prepare you for story sharing, create focus and calm during storytelling, and recover afterwards.
Crash Anniversaries & Birthdays
Anniversaries and birthdays can be very challenging. These are times to be comforted by peers who have been through similar loss and heartbreak. Join this ongoing gathering in the month of your or your loved one’s anniversary and/or birthday to share stories, traditions, to comfort others, and receive comfort. This gathering will be facilitated by FSS support staff and open to anyone who has a crash.
Peer Mentor Training - November 2025
FSS Peer Mentoring is critical to our work together. FSS Peer Mentors provide bereaved family members or those seriously injured and their caregivers with a connection to a volunteer mentor who shares a unique understanding of the challenges involved with loss, grief, physical pain, and trauma. Our FSS Peer Mentors are all individuals who have been through similar experiences and are dedicated to helping others survive these life-altering tragedies. Join the training to learn more and become a mentor.
2025 Post-World Day of Remembrance Virtual Candle Light Vigil
Join Families for Safe Streets for our annual Post-WDOR Virtual Candlelight Vigil and slideshow. This event is open to all community members. We will share photos of loved ones lost to crashes and honor those injured. The gathering will include our memorial slideshow, readings, and a candle lighting ceremony.
Nov 18 | 7- 8 pm ET | 4-5 pm PT RSVP HERE
Crash Survivor Support Group - November 2025
From physical pain to emotional trauma and lifestyle changes, the effects of crashes for survivors can be life-changing. Join peers for conversation and the support of those with shared experience. The economy, rhythm, and expressiveness of poetry can help us to tap into feelings about trauma, pain, and navigating the world after a crash injury. Join FSS member and writer, Michelle McLaren in a facilitated discussion. No poetry reading or writing experience required!
Book Club
Join us to read and reflect on Improvement, by Joan Silber, winner of the National Book Critics Circle and PEN/Faulkner Awards. Told through the characters' interconnected stories, the novel centers on a tragic car crash and the far-reaching effects it has on those directly and more subtly changed by this event. The book delves into the consequences of choices, the search for meaning, and the possibility of growth and change.
We will meet just once, for 90 minutes. We encourage reading the entire book, but please join the discussion even if you are not able to complete it.
FSS Book Club is facilitated by FSS member, author, and writing instructor, Rebecca Sonkin.
Improvement can be purchased through Amazon or at Bookshop.org.
📅 Oct 23 | 🕖 7–8:30 pm ET (4 -5:30 pm PT) | RSVP HERE
Crash Anniversary & Birthday Support Group
Birthday & Anniversary Support Group. Anniversaries and birthdays can be very challenging. These are times to be comforted by peers who have been through similar loss and heartbreak. Join this ongoing gathering in the month of your or your loved one’s anniversary and/or birthday to share stories, traditions, to comfort others and receive comfort.
Monthly Journaling Together Support Group
Research has shown journaling to help improve physical and psychological health by calming the brain's fear center, reducing chronic stress, and enhancing coping skills. Regularly writing about crash-related loss and injury can provide a structured, routine way to navigate life-altering events.
Crash Survivor Support Group
Crash survivors offer a powerful and unique perspective that can fuel advocacy and bring profound change.. Join FSS crash survivor and community leader Kate Brockwehl for a facilitated discussion.
Journaling Together Support Group
Journaling can help us to process traumatic injury and loss by providing a safe space to express complex emotions, organize thoughts, and gain perspective. Research has shown journaling to help improve physical and psychological health by calming the brain's fear center, reducing chronic stress, and enhancing coping skills. Regularly writing about crash-related loss and injury can provide a structured, routine way to navigate life-altering events.
We will write silently but together for most of the session, and will offer prompts for those who want them. We will leave time to say hello to each other and share insights.
📅 Sept 25 | 🕖 7:30-8:30 pm ET (4-5 pm PT) | RSVP HERE
Birthdays & Anniversary Support Group
Anniversaries and birthdays can be very challenging. These are times to be comforted by peers who have been through similar loss and heartbreak. Join this ongoing gathering in the month of your or your loved one’s anniversary and/or birthday to share stories, traditions, to comfort others and receive comfort.
Crash Survivor Support Group
Somatic therapist Elizabeth DeLaBarre guides crash survivors through a practice called Holistic Biomechanics - using sensory awareness to center the nervous system and promote the body's ability to balance itself.
Holistic biomechanics can address many of the psychological and physical effects of crash-related injuries, from anxiety and depression, to chronic pain.
NOTE: Elizabeth DeLaBarre, a crash survivor herself, has practiced Somatic Therapy and now focuses on Holistic Biomechanics, which has helped her to address her own extensive pain.
Peer Mentor Training
FSS Peer Mentoring provides bereaved family members or those seriously injured and their caregivers with a connection to a volunteer peer support mentor.
Birthday and Anniversary support group
Anniversaries and birthdays can be very challenging. These are times to be comforted by peers who have been through similar loss and heartbreak. Join this ongoing gathering in the month of your or your loved one’s anniversary and/or birthday to share stories, traditions, to comfort others, and receive comfort. This gathering will be facilitated by FSS support staff and open to anyone who has a crash anniversary or birthday in the given month.
Register here to receive the Zoom link
Crash Survivor Support
From physical pain to emotional trauma and lifestyle changes, the effects of crashes for survivors can be life-changing. Join peers for conversation and the support of those with shared experience. Monthly conversation facilitated by the FSS Support Team.
Register to receive the Zoom link
Write your 6-word memoir: 7 pm ET, 4 pm PT
Six-Word Memoir writing is a powerful and creative way to express experiences like trauma, grief, and the way events shape and change us. Together we will talk about this unique form, and write memoirs of our own. You don't need to be 'a writer' -- just someone willing to explore the words that can reflect how you're feeling.
Register to receive the Zoom link
Peer Mentor Training
FSS Peer Mentoring provides bereaved family members or those seriously injured and their caregivers with a connection to a volunteer peer support mentor. Our FSS mentors are all individuals who have been through similar experiences and are dedicated to helping others survive these life-altering tragedies. Join the training to learn more and become a mentor.
Register here to receive the Zoom link
Sibling Support Gathering: 4 pm PT, and 7 pm ET
Losing a sibling is about the loss of the past, present, and future, and those who were witnesses to your life as you grew up. Bereaved siblings are too often the forgotten mourners. Gather with others who have experienced this loss. We welcome our members to co-design what this sibling support meetings looks like, please feel free to send any ideas for conversation to aly@familiesforsafestreets.org.
Register to receive the Zoom link
Starts: 4 pm PT/ 5 pm MT/ 6 pm CT/ 7 pm ET
Rock Painting: 7 pm ET, 4 pm PT
Artistic expression can ease stress and help to process difficult emotions around traumatic experiences, loss, and unexpected change. Rock painting provides an opportunity to reflect on life-altering injury or loss. Rocks can be placed around your home or garden, or set out in the world for others to see. * All members welcome - including those who have lost a loved one or experienced injury due to a crash. * No experience necessary *
Register to receive the Zoom link.
Starts: 4 pm PT/ 5 pm MT/ 6 pm CT/ 7 pm ET
Birthday Anniversary Support: 7 pm ET, 4 pm PT
Anniversaries and birthdays can be very challenging. These are times to be comforted by peers who have been through similar loss and heartbreak. Join this ongoing gathering in the month of your or your loved one’s anniversary and/or birthday to share stories, traditions, to comfort others and receive comfort. This gathering will be facilitated by FSS support staff and open to anyone who has a crash anniversary or birthday in the given month.
Register to receive the Zoom link
Starts: 4 pm PT/ 5 pm MT/ 6 pm CT/ 7 pm ET
July 2025 Member Meet & Greet
Join us our new monthly Families for Safe Streets Meet & Greet, where we are building a deeper community of advocates who come together to heal from the trauma of traffic violence, fight for a Safe System Approach and organize to save lives!
Starts at 4 pm PT/5 pm MT/ 6 pm CT/ 7 pm ET
Peer Mentor Training: 7 pm ET, 4 pm PT
FSS Peer Mentoring provides bereaved family members or those seriously injured and their caregivers with a connection to a volunteer peer support mentor. Our FSS mentors are all individuals who have been through similar experiences and are dedicated to helping others survive these life-altering tragedies. Join the training to learn more and become a mentor.
Register here to learn more and become a mentor.
Starts: 4 pm PT/ 5 pm MT/ 6 pm CT/ 7 pm ET
Monthly Survivor Support Group: 7 pm ET, 4pm PT
From physical pain to emotional trauma and lifestyle changes, the effects of crashes for survivors can be life-changing. Join peers for conversation and the support of those with shared experience. Monthly conversation facilitated by the FSS Support Team.
Register to receive the Zoom link
Starts: 4 pm PT/ 5 pm MT/ 6 pm CT/ 7 pm ET
Peer Mentor Training: 7 pm ET, 4 pm PT
FSS Peer Mentoring provides bereaved family members or those seriously injured and their caregivers with a connection to a volunteer peer support mentor. Our FSS mentors are all individuals who have been through similar experiences and are dedicated to helping others survive these life-altering tragedies. Join the training to learn more and become a mentor.
Register here to learn more and become a mentor.
Starts: 4 pm PT/ 5 pm MT/ 6 pm CT/ 7 pm ET
#StopSuperSpeeders: Policy Maker and Advocates Workshop
Join Families for Safe Streets, state legislators, civic and agency leaders who are at the forefront of the effort to #StopSuperSpeeders for an in-depth workshop on how to promote this life-saving policy idea in your state and your community. This hands-on workshop will be designed for both policy makers who are in the weeds and for advocates who want to encourage change. Please join us and get involved in this game changing campaign to prevent unnecessary injuries and road deaths.
Monthly Survivor Support Group
From physical pain to emotional trauma and lifestyle changes, the effects of crashes for survivors can be life-changing. Join peers for conversation and the support of those with shared experience. Monthly conversation facilitated by the FSS Support Team.
Register to receive the Zoom link
Starts: 4 pm PT/ 5 pm MT/ 6 pm CT/ 7 pm ET
Birthday - Anniversary Support: 4 pm PT, 7 pm ET
Anniversaries and birthdays can be very challenging. These are times to be comforted by peers who have been through similar loss and heartbreak. Join this ongoing gathering in the month of your or your loved one’s anniversary and/or birthday to share stories, traditions, to comfort others and receive comfort. This gathering will be facilitated by FSS support staff and open to anyone who has a crash anniversary or birthday in the given month.
Register to receive the Zoom link
Starts: 4 pm PT/ 5 pm MT/ 6 pm CT/ 7 pm ET
Sibling Support Group 4 pm PT and 7 pm ET
Losing a sibling is about the loss of the past, present, and future, and those who were witnesses to your life as you grew up. Bereaved siblings are too often the forgotten mourners. Gather with others who have experienced this loss. As this will be our first sibling support group, please feel free to send any ideas for conversation to info@familiesforsafestreets.org.
Register to receive the Zoom link
Starts: 4 pm PT/ 5 pm MT/ 6 pm CT/ 7 pm ET
FSS West Coast Leadership Training Institute
Join peers for our first-ever in-person, national leadership training in San Diego, CA. This three-day event will include a Friday evening support gathering to build connections and lay the groundwork for all-day training activities on Saturday and interactive campaign planning on Sunday. We will build the skills and connections crucial to growing our movement and create the foundation necessary for building our advocacy on the West Coast.
Contact us if you wish to attend.
Anniversary & Birthday Support Gathering: 4 pm PT, 7 pm ET
Anniversaries and birthdays can be very challenging. These are times to be comforted by peers who have been through similar loss and heartbreak. Join this ongoing gathering in the month of your or your loved one’s anniversary and/or birthday to share stories, traditions, to comfort others and receive comfort. This gathering will be facilitated by FSS support staff and open to anyone who has a crash anniversary or birthday in the given month.
Register to receive the Zoom link
Crash Survivor support Group
From physical pain to emotional trauma and lifestyle changes, the effects of crashes for survivors can be life-changing. Join peers for conversation and the support of those with shared experience. Monthly conversation facilitated by the FSS Support Team.
Register to receive the Zoom link
#StopSuperSpeeders Webinar
A Growing Number of States are Using Technology to Stop Super Speeders. The #StopSuperSpeeders Webinar Tackles the “Why” and “How.”
Many Americans have never heard of Intelligent Speed Assistance: technology, which has the power to automatically limit dangerous drivers to the posted speed limit. But these devices, sometimes called “speed limiters,” are being embraced as a tool to help manage the surge of recklessness and fatalities on roadways by a growing number of U.S. states.
Families for Safe Streets, in partnership with America Walks and others, will host a Webinar May 7th at 2 pm EST explaining how ISA technology can be used to save lives. Among the panelists is Virginia Delegate Patrick Hope, who spearheaded successful legislation in his state’s General Assembly to impose ISA on a small category of repeat reckless drivers or drivers with egregious violations of the speed limit.
Register to receive the Zoom link.
FSS Ambassador Training (Day 2)
April 27th and May 4th, 12-3 pm ET/9-12 pm PT
This virtual training, held on two consecutive Sundays, is designed to help FSS members who don’t yet have an FSS chapter nearby to gain the tools and support needed to become a trained Families for Safe Streets advocate who can build change. We also welcome anyone who wants to brush up on FSS history, strategy, and advocacy skills.
Contact us if you are interested in joining.
April Birthday & Anniversary Support Gathering: 4 pm PT, 7 pm ET
Anniversaries and birthdays can be very challenging. These are times to be comforted by peers who have been through similar loss and heartbreak. Join this ongoing gathering in the month of your or your loved one’s anniversary and/or birthday to share stories and traditions, to comfort others, and to receive comfort. This gathering will be facilitated by FSS support staff and open to anyone who has a crash anniversary or birthday in the given month. We will meet on the 4th Wednesday of the month.
Register to receive the Zoom link
FSS Ambassador Training (Day 1)
April 27th and May 4th, 12-3 pm ET/9-12 pm PT
This virtual training, held on two consecutive Sundays, is designed to help FSS members who don’t yet have an FSS chapter nearby to gain the tools and support needed to become a trained Families for Safe Streets advocate who can build change. We also welcome anyone who wants to brush up on FSS history, strategy, and advocacy skills.
Contact us if you are interested in joining.