New service being offered in Tampa, Florida to help concerned families of older drivers

SAFETY HARBOR, Fla. - March 10, 2017 - PRLog -- Keeping Us Safe is proud to announce that Cynthia Van Vliet, M.Ed, CAS, CDP, has successfully completed an intensive training program and is now certified as one of North America's "Beyond Driving with Dignity" Professionals.

Keeping Us Safe's "Beyond Driving with Dignity" professional certification program has been designed to equip Van Vliet and other professionals throughout the United States with tools necessary to help older drivers and their families work through the complicated issue of age-related diminished driving skills.

Having received this certification, Van Vliet is now well-suited to provide older drivers and their families with a very specific program that will help them make decisions on how to keep the older driver safe.  She holds a Master's Degree in Educational Leadership and is a retired Assistant Superintendent of Schools with concentration in students with special needs.  In addition, she currently serves as a licensed professional guardian and a geriatric care manager and is the owner of "Advocacy for the Aging" in Tampa, Florida.

Van Vliet will begin providing the nationally recognized "Beyond Driving with Dignity" services in the greater Tampa area effective immediately.

Certification in the Beyond Driving with Dignity program is designed to be a common-sense approach to facilitate (and often times mediate!) rational, pro-active driving-related solutions based on tangible facts and personal observations.  The program is unique in that it allows the older driver to play an active role in the decision-making process as it relates to his or her driving future.

"The 'Beyond Driving with Dignity' program provides worried families with a solution to their concerns, offering new-relief to families worried about a loved one's safe driving abilities as they relate to the natural aging process," explains Van Vliet.  "Keeping Us Safe's 'self-assessment program for older drivers' provides these families with the missing link between their desire to bring the driving issue to a peaceful resolution, and their ability to actually do so," she added.  Van Vliet can be reached at 727-253-3735 or by email at cynthia@keepingussafe.org.

The Certified "Beyond Driving with Dignity" Professional must meet established standards of professionalism to maintain their facilitator's certification.   For more information on the program please visit www.keepingussafe.org. (http://www.keepingussafe.org/)

Media inquiries are asked to call 216-904-8841 for more information.