| Mission Statement |
| The mission of the New York State Child Passenger Safety Advisory Board is to protect our child passengers by enhancing the quality and continuing growth of our child passenger safety program. |
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Child Passenger Safety Program |
The New York State Child Passenger Safety Advisory Board was created in January 2004 as a result of the CPS task force meetings held statewide in 2003. Members of the Board were chosen to represent 14 regions of the state as well as special interests regarding child passenger safety. Each Regional Coordinator has been given the responsibility to help improve communication, provide assistance and program direction, address regional problems and issues, and assure that the Child Passenger Safety Standards of Performance are upheld. If at any time you have a question, idea, suggestion or anything that you feel the board should be made aware of, please feel free to contact your regional representative. Your representative is also your contact person for future CPS classes.
If you would like to attend one of our meetings, they are held five times a year, always on a Monday, at the Holiday Inn Express on Wolf Road in Albany NY at 8:30 a.m. You must let Barbara Formica know you will be attending. Please make arrangements by emailing barbara.formica@dmv.ny.gov
Meetings for 2011 were held in January, April, June and September.
- The last scheduled meeting for this year is Monday, December 5th, 2011.
In January a listing of the meeting for the 2012 Calendar year will be posted here.
Board Members and Committees
Region 1, Greater Niagara: Niagara, Erie, Orleans, Genesee, Wyoming
Thomas M. McDonnell, Retired - New York State Police - e-mail tmm3664@hotmail.com
Region 2, Southern Tier: Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany, Steuben
Patrick Ambrose - e-mail patnpat@netsync.net
Region 3, Greater Rochester: Monroe, Wayne, Livingston, Ontario, Seneca, Yates, Schuyler
June Webster, Cornell Cooperative Extension - e-mail jmd227@cornell.edu
Region 4, Upper Central NY: Onondaga, Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Herkimer, Oswego
Margaret Beers, Clinical Coordinator, Oswego Hospital Emergency Department - e-mail mbeers@oswegohealth.org
Region 5, Lower Central NY: Chemung, Tompkins, Tioga, Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego
Donna Adams, Director, Chenango County Child Care Coordinating Council - e-mail director1.cccccc@frontiernet.net
Region 6, Lower Adirondack: Hamilton, Warren, Washington, Fulton, Saratoga, Montgomery
Cynthia J. Dort, Occupant Protection Specialist Educator, Cornell University Cooperative Extension of Saratoga County; Chair - e-mail cjd53@cornell.edu
Region 7, Capital Region: Schenectady, Albany, Rensselaer, Schoharie, Greene, Columbia
William Van Alstyne - e-mail William.VanAlstyne@albanycounty.com
Region 8, Mid-Hudson: Sullivan, Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, Putnam
John J. Dickson, Detective, Ulster Police Department - e-mail jjdickson@ulsterpolice.com
Region 9, Westchester-Rockland:
Susan T. Larkin, Coordinator, Westchester SAFE KIDS, Blythedale Children's Hospital - e-mail suel@blythedale.org
Region 10, New York City: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island
Erik A. Cliette, Director, Harlem Hospital Injury Prevention Program - e-mail ec221@columbia.edu
Samantha Carter, New York City Department of Transportation - e-mail scarter@dot.nyc.gov
Region 11, Queens/Special Needs:
Mark Hoffacker, Advocacy Manager, Kulanu, 620 Central Avenue, Cedarhurst, NY - e-mail mark@kulanukids.org
Region 12, Nassau:
Angela Brockmann, Senior Community Outreach Coordinator, Hempstead, NY - e-mail angela.brockmann@eacinc.org
Region 13, Suffolk:
Rachel Lugo, Regional Director, Education & Assistance Corp., Ronkonkoma, NY - e-mail rachel.lugo@eacinc.org
Region 14, Adirondack: St. Lawrence, Franklin, Clinton, Lewis, Essex, Jefferson
Travis E. Dann, Sergeant, New York State Police - e-mail tdann@troopers.state.ny.us
Governor's Traffic Safety Committee: Barbara Formica, NYS Child Passenger Safety Program Coordinator - e-mail bform@dmv.ny.gov
New York State Police: Cathleen Babcock, Supervisor of Occupant Protection Program - e-mail cbabcock@troopers.state.ny.us
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Shannon Purdy, Program Manager, NHTSA Region 2 - e-mail shannon.purdy@dot.gov
New York State Health Department: Debra Douglass, Occupant Restraint Program Manager - e-mail djd04@health.state.ny.us
Pupil Transportation: Ted Finlayson-Schueler, Executive Director, Safety Rules! - e-mail schoolbusted@safetyrules.net
New York State Association of Traffic Safety Boards: Karen Liddle, President - e-mail trafficsafety@stny.rr.com
Nassau SAFE KIDS Coalition: Rosemarie C. Ennis, Director, Great Neck, NY - e-mail rennis@nshs.edu
