While the mission of the Everyone Goes Home program remains the same, the leadership of the program will shift from Rich Anderson to Rich Marinucci for the management of the Year 4 Fire Act Grant.

Anderson, of Anderson Media Group, has managed the Everyone Goes Home® program since its inception, three years ago. "My mission was to both build a team of advocates and leaders who could fulfill the program mission; and to introduce and develop innovative programs that would enable fire departments to accomplish the goal of eliminating preventable line of duty injuries and deaths," said Rich Anderson. "We have successfully recruited over sixty advocates and assembled a team of subject matter experts and leaders that have enabled the program to be extremely successful. The recent survey vouches for the progress of the program.

A few of the programs that were developed and introduced by Rich and his team are: the Courage to Be Safe(SM) Program, the America's Fire Hero Whistle-Stop Tour, Safety Through Leadership, Safety Management Systems. In addition, a select Anderson Media Group managed the Novato Summit and the first ever Advocates Safety Summit at Emmitsburg, Md. in March 2007. They also served as the Executive Producers for the award winning Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Resource Kit Volumes 1 and 2.

Anderson added "None of which could've been accomplished without the work and dedication of my excellent staff and the dedicated members of the Everyone Goes Home® Team with a special recognition for Dr. Jo Ellen Kelly program developer for the program. "We are thankful for the opportunity and thank all of the advocates who have joined the "Call to Action."

It is Anderson Media Group's intention to continue to provide resources to the fire service to enable them to accomplish the goal of everyone going home at the end of the call or the end of their shift as a consultant to the program. Rich can be contacted at richanderson@comcast.net.