For Schools & Agencies Helping Youth
How Does TrafficWear Help Our Youth
Youth today are faced with stressful situations and choices unlike any previous generation. They need ways to express a powerful message which support strong choices to peers and adults. The TrafficWear line uses universally common visual symbols which promote the valuable themes of leadership, character and prevention.
TrafficWear street signs are constant visual reminders for kids to stay focused on the key message and lesson. Throughout their lives, these signs will “speak” to them and become a regular reminder of the message you helped to teach them while they were involved with your program.
How we help agencies, schools and communities:
1. Provide products that support character building and empowerment actions. (Examples: DO NOT ENTER symbol – Set Boundaries, YIELD symbol – Proceed With Care, ONE WAY symbol – Stay True to Your Path).
2. Complement your lessons by giving kids a reward, an incentive or visible reinforcement.
3. Help youth to remember the lessons and tools of your program.
4. Identify a specific traffic sign to your brand (Example: STOP SIGN for Red Ribbon Works, KEEP OFF THE GRASS for Safe and Drug-Free Schools, GIRL symbol for Girl Scouts of America, SHARE THE ROAD for Bicycle Safety Coalition
5. This product brings about a fun way for kids to get the lesson. Young people love street signs — TrafficWear street sign jewelry takes it to another level of fun for them.
6. Kids want their own sign language. When they can talk street signs with each other, they have a unique way to express themselves and communicate with their peers.
7. The variety of street signs gives you many means of teaching multiple lessons. They can be introduced for specific times/purposes.
8. When you give a child a sign “message”, to help them to write out and talk out the message, and personalize the message, it integrates the message.
9. Kids don’t want to be told what to do or talk at them. It is subtle and respectful. You are showing them love and it is gentle. Kids appreciate the street sign and is not overpowering. IT is a token and shows them that you love them….like a greeting card or birthday present.
10. Out on the streets and in our everyday lives, we see street signs every single day. Giving the kids in your program a TrafficWear charm with its message will make these regular street signs take on a whole new, divine meaning. Throughout their lives, these signs will “speak” to them and become a regular reminder of the message you helped to teach them while they were involved with your program.
11. Our products are fashioned by common, popular street signs matched with a subtle but recognized message that appeal to youth looking for a way to express themselves in a non-threatening way.
We partner with agencies and organizations that work with children in character building and empowerment actions. We complement your lessons by giving you a treat or visible reinforcement to your lessons and activities. We are a supportive source to you and provide what you need to teach that lesson. We empower your agency by giving you a familiar symbol that kids can relate to.
We know that when a child gets a TrafficWear symbol, the child remembers the lesson and the specific agency who taught them this important value. We support your efforts in teaching and supporting kids in major life lesson activities.
TrafficWear. The world is full of messages. Make them your own.