• Remembering When Conference
• Rolf H. Jensen Memorial Public Education Grant
• Fire and Life Safety Educator of the Year

Remembering When Conference

Download the application.(docx, 37 KB) Deadline: August 10, 2012

Reaching older adults through home visits
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is committed to helping communities reduce fire and fall injuries and deaths among older adults. Since 1999, communities throughout North America have implemented the Remembering When program, reaching thousands of older adults. In 2012, NFPA will select representatives from up to 35 communities to attend the Remembering When Conference, which will emphasize home visits to ensure that the program reaches the most vulnerable of older adults. For this purpose, we are asking fire departments to partner with an agency whose main outreach to older adults is through home visits. Such agencies may include visiting nurse associations, home health care agencies, church outreach groups, and other organizations. The partner agency will conduct the home visits.

Here’s what we’re looking for from local communities

• A partnership to support the implementation of Remembering When at the local level.
• A two-person team that includes the fire department and an agency serving older adults in the community through home visits. The partner agency must already have a home-visit mechanism in place since it will conduct the visits. After training in Boston, the fire department will train home visitors on the Remembering When program.
• Partners must have the authority, commitment, and ability to oversee local implementation of the Remembering When program.
• The fire department will be the partnership’s lead contact for NFPA.

Here’s what you’ll receive
Each Remembering When Conference Award is valued at more than $4,000 and includes:

• A training workshop in Boston from December 2 to 4, 2012, for each two-member team. NFPA will cover the expense of travel, hotel, and group meals for each team. Attendance at all sessions is mandatory. All events and meals are funded for invited attendees only.
• One Remembering When™: A Fire and Fall Prevention Program for Older Adults curriculum for each team member.
• Two hundred “How to Prevent Fires” brochures for distribution to older adults.
• Two hundred “How to Prevent Falls” brochures for distribution to older adults.

Team requirements
After the conference, each team will take what it has learned back to its community and do the following:

• The fire department will conduct a minimum of five group presentations.
• The fire department will conduct at least two train-the-trainer sessions for the partner agency home visitors.
• The home visitor agency will conduct at least 25 home visits.
• The home visitor agency will integrate agreed-upon materials from the Remembering When program into its home visits.
• Each team will submit a final report to NFPA by November 1, 2013, that includes a summary of how the agency integrated Remembering When materials into its home visits.

Official rules for applying 

• Submit one copy of the application, single-spaced essay, and letters of support from your fire chief and the director of the home-visitor partner agency no later than the close of business on Friday, August 10, 2012. The judges’ decision is final, and NFPA reserves the right not to grant all 35 awards.
• Applications submitted become the property of NFPA and cannot be returned.
• NFPA will notify award recipients on or before September 14, 2012.
• Include the following community contact form with your application and mail or fax to:

2012 Remembering When Award
Attention: Lisa Braxton,
Associate Project Manager, Public Education
National Fire Protection Association
1 Batterymarch Park
Quincy, MA 02169-9101
Fax +1 617 984-7222

Questions? Contact Sharon Gamache, Program Director, NFPA High-Risk Outreach Programs, at 617-984-7286.