Help provide safety kits through CREF

To help promote the importance of professionalism to high school and college collision students and ensure that students stay safe this school semester, the Collision Repair Education Foundation is offering industry members the opportunity to sponsor student safety kits. For $50 p/kit, each student will receive a technician shirt, work pants, safety glasses, ear plugs, and a disposable dust mask. Companies sponsoring at least 100 safety kits will have their company logo screen printed on the back of the technician shirts. The Collision Repair Education Foundation will work to have the sponsored safety kits be provided to schools that are local to the sponsors.

Collision Repair Education Foundation Director of Development Brandon Eckenrode noted, “It’s never too early to start communicating to collision students that dressing and acting professional in a work place environment is important for a successful career. Future employers and customers want to see this type of look and engaging the students now will hopefully instill this mindset in the students. These collision student safety kits will help bring a new level professionalism and improve the image of the school’s collision program.”

There are roughly 1,100 high school and post-secondary collision school programs across the country which equates to 60,000 students that would be able to utilize a safety kit this semester. Industry members interested in helping to provide added professionalism to local high school and/or college collision school programs by sponsoring safety kits for the students should contact Director of Development Brandon Eckenrode at [email protected] or 847-463-5244.

The Collision Repair Education Foundation, founded in 1991, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to securing donations that support philanthropic and collision repair education activities that promote and enhance career opportunities in the industry. For information on how to donate to programs supported by the Education Foundation visit us online at: www.CollisionEducationFoundation.org.

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