Monthly meeting of the FSS National Executive Committee - members only virtual mtg.

 Journaling can help us process traumatic injury and loss by providing a safe space to express complex emotions, organize thoughts, and gain perspective. Research has shown that journaling can 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 for most of the session, and offer prompts for those who want them. We always leave time to say hello to each other and share insights if desired.

📅Oct 13 | 🕖 7:30 ET | 4:30pm PT RSVP HERE  

Are you an FSS chapter lead or Ambassador and want to help improve support services to crash survivors in your community and for our national network? Please join a special planning meeting on Wednesday, October 14th exploring a possible partnership between Families for Safe Streets and the Trauma Survivors Network (TSN), an organization dedicated to connecting, educating, and empowering trauma survivors and their families. This is your chance to learn more about TSN, share your chapter's needs and questions, and help shape what an FSS-TSN relationship could look like. Contact our Support Services Manager, Aly Geller, if you wish to participate: aly@familiesforsafestreets.org.

📅Oct 14 | 🕖 12pm ET | 9am PT Email interest 

World Day of Remembrance, held on Sunday, November 15, 2026, honors those killed and severely injured in roadway crashes and inspires action to make our roads safer.

Planning or thinking about holding an event in your community? Join for our monthly planning meetings to help you prepare. These meetings are held jointly with FSS, the Vision Zero Network, National Safety Council and It Could Be Me! Check out our resources and more at www.WDoR-USA.org

Note: If you RSVP'd to the first meeting in August, you are already registered for all of the other meeting in the series. You will receive reminder emails directly from Zoom before each event.

📅Thurs Oct 15 | 🕖 1pm ET | 10am PT | RSVP HERE

📅Thurs Nov 5 | 🕖 1pm ET | 10am PT|RSVP HERE 

📅Mon Nov 30 | 🕖 1pm ET | 10am PT |RSVP HERE 

The ongoing effects of brain injury, physical pain, and emotional trauma, as well as changes to social dynamics, career, and livelihood can leave survivors feeling isolated. Find practical advice and resources, and learn how others are managing difficult emotions and rebuilding their lives after a crash injury. Facilitated by FSS staff.

 📅Oct 21 | 🕖 7pm ET | 4pm PT RSVP HERE

SUVs and crossovers account for over 41% of U.S. vehicles, despite severe safety and environmental flaws. Written by New York Times reporter and former Detroit bureau chief Keith Bradsher, High & Mighty exposes the corporate and policy decisions that popularized these oversized vehicles at the expense of public safety.  

Connect with fellow FSS members for a facilitated conversation on the SUV crisis. Learn about critical new legislation to protect vulnerable road users and find out how you can help amplify the movement. We will hold this book club in two sessions. The second session is from chapter 11 to the end. We will provide chapter synopses so join even if you cannot read the entire book.

New and used copies of this book can be found through: Abe Books, Thrift Books, Amazon, and your local library

 📅Dec 9 | 🕖 12pm ET | 9am PT RSVP HERE

Join us in New York City on Thursday October 29 for the FSS East Coast Leadership Training Institute (LTI). Connect with fellow FSS members from across the region while strengthening key skills in advocacy, campaign planning, organizing, and storytelling. Together, we’ll dive into current campaigns and strategies, and build lasting community.

Participants are also encouraged to attend the first day of the Vision Zero Cities Conference on Wednesday, October 28th. 

The Leadership Training Institute is free to attend, and limited scholarships for complementary conference attendance are available. While we are unable to cover travel or accommodations, we will do our best to arrange homestays with local FSS members when needed.

Please RSVP to secure your spot for the East Coast Leadership Training and let us know if you’ll need assistance to participate.

World Day of Remembrance, held on Sunday, November 15, 2026, honors those killed and severely injured in roadway crashes and inspires action to make our roads safer.

Planning or thinking about holding an event in your community? Join for our monthly planning meetings to help you prepare. These meetings are held jointly with FSS, the Vision Zero Network, National Safety Council and It Could Be Me! Check out our resources and more at www.WDoR-USA.org

Note: If you RSVP'd to the first meeting in August, you are already registered for all of the other meeting in the series. You will receive reminder emails directly from Zoom before each event.

📅Thurs Nov 5 | 🕖 1pm ET | 10am PT|RSVP HERE 

📅Mon Nov 30 | 🕖 1pm ET | 10am PT |RSVP HERE 

National Policy & Advocacy Committee. Join the national team for our monthly meeting to discuss our policy priorities and campaigns.

📅Nov 5 | 🕖 7:30 pm ET | 4:30pm PT RSVP HERE 

Monthly meeting of the FSS National Executive Committee - members only virtual mtg.

Join our Support Services Manager, Aly Geller, for one-on-one or small group conversation.  This Office Hours window is here for all community members. Log in if you need a little guidance or support. 

Office hours include crash survivors as well as those who have lost a loved one. 

📅 Nov 11  | 🕖 6:30pm ET | 3:30pm PT RSVP HERE 

We are always here for 1-1 outreach as well. Please reach out to us at info@familiesforsafestreets.org

If you lost a family member or suffered a serious injury, join us for a virtual candle lighting to remember. Bring a candle and a photo of your loved one or pre-crash self. 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.

Please share a photo of your loved one or yourself if injured so we can include them in the slideshow. Send to info@familiesforsafestreets.org.

📅 Nov 17  | 🕖 8pm ET | 5pm PT RSVP HERE 

Join us for our next policy chat on Nov 18th at 12 pm ET / 9 am PT with David Zipper, one of the country’s sharpest writers on transportation policy. David is a Contributing Writer at Bloomberg, cohost of the podcast Look Both Ways, and author of the free newsletter Paved with Good Intentions. He is also writing a book on congestion pricing for MIT Press. He was a Senior Fellow at the MIT Mobility Initiative, and before that he held leadership roles in city government in New York City and Washington, DC.

David coined the term “car bloat” to describe the steady growth of SUVs and pickups on our roads. He has also made the case for requiring intelligent speed assistance, pointed out that the U.S. has no pedestrian impact standards for cars, and taken a skeptical look at what robotaxis will mean for safety and congestion. These are the issues at the center of our Safe Vehicles work, including our Stop Super Speeders campaign. He’ll engage in a conversation with us about why our vehicles have become so dangerous, what it will take to change them, and how our voices as crash survivors and families can move the needle.

 📅 Nov 18| 12pm ET | 9am PT RSVP HERE

The ongoing effects of brain injury, physical pain, and emotional trauma, as well as changes to social dynamics, career, and livelihood can leave survivors feeling isolated. Find practical advice and resources, and learn how others are managing difficult emotions and rebuilding their lives after a crash injury. Facilitated by FSS staff.

 📅Nov 18 | 🕖 7pm ET | 4pm PT RSVP HERE 

Journaling can help us process traumatic injury and loss by providing a safe space to express complex emotions, organize thoughts, and gain perspective. Research has shown that journaling can 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 for most of the session, and offer prompts for those who want them. We always leave time to say hello to each other and share insights if desired.

📅Nov 19 | 🕖 7:30 ET | 4:30pm PT RSVP HERE 

Join our meeting to debrief about your World Day of Remembrance, held on Sunday, November 15, 2026. Share how you honored those killed and severely injured in roadway crashes and inspired action to make our roads safer. for our monthly planning meetings. As with our monthly planning meetings, the debrief will be organized by FSS, the Vision Zero Network, National Safety Council and It Could Be Me! Check out our resources and more at www.WDoR-USA.org

Note: If you RSVP'd to the first meeting in August, you are already registered for all of the other meeting in the series. You will receive reminder emails directly from Zoom before each event. Here is the schedule of events for your records: 

📅Mon Nov 30 | 🕖 1pm ET | 10am PT |RSVP HERE 

Join us to read and reflect on The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This classic novel chronicles the tragic pursuit of wealth, love, and the American Dream in 1920’s New York. Car crashes figure prominently in the plot and serve as powerful symbols of moral carelessness, the illusion of control, and destructive class exploitation.

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.

Purchase the book through Amazon, AbeBooks, or, best of all, your local library!

📅Dec 2 | 🕖 7pm ET | 4pm PT RSVP HERE 

National Policy & Advocacy Committee. Join the national team for our monthly meeting to discuss our policy priorities and campaigns.

📅Dec 3 | 🕖 7:30 pm ET | 4:30pm PT RSVP HERE 

SUVs and crossovers account for over 41% of U.S. vehicles, despite severe safety and environmental flaws. Written by New York Times reporter and former Detroit bureau chief Keith Bradsher, High & Mighty exposes the corporate and policy decisions that popularized these oversized vehicles at the expense of public safety.  

Connect with fellow FSS members for a facilitated conversation on the SUV crisis. Learn about critical new legislation to protect vulnerable road users and find out how you can help amplify the movement. We will hold this book club in two sessions. The first meeting covers chapters 1-10. We will provide chapter synopses so join even if you cannot read the entire book.

New and used copies of this book can be found through: Abe Books, Thrift Books, Amazon, and your local library

 📅Oct 22 | 🕖 12pm ET | 9am PT RSVP HERE 
(Second session 12/9 at 12pm ET 🕖 12pm ET | 9am PT)

Join our Support Services Manager, Aly Geller, for one-on-one or small group conversation.  This Office Hours window is here for all community members. Log in if you need a little guidance or support. 

Office hours include crash survivors as well as those who have lost a loved one. 

📅 Dec 10  | 🕖 6:30pm ET | 3:30pm PT RSVP HERE 

We are always here for 1-1 outreach as well. Please reach out to us at info@familiesforsafestreets.org

Monthly meeting of the FSS National Executive Committee - members only virtual mtg.

The ongoing effects of brain injury, physical pain, and emotional trauma, as well as changes to social dynamics, career, and livelihood can leave survivors feeling isolated. Find practical advice and resources, and learn how others are managing difficult emotions and rebuilding their lives after a crash injury. Facilitated by FSS staff.

 📅Sept 16 | 🕖 7pm ET | 4pm PT RSVP HERE

Journaling can help us process traumatic injury and loss by providing a safe space to express complex emotions, organize thoughts, and gain perspective. Research has shown that journaling can 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 for most of the session, and offer prompts for those who want them. We always leave time to say hello to each other and share insights if desired.

📅Dec 17 | 🕖 7:30 ET | 4:30pm PT RSVP HERE