Cleveland Heights Business Owner Joins Keeping Us Safe's National Team

CLEVELAND - Oct. 2, 2017 - PRLog -- Keeping Us Safe is proud to announce that Colleen Beard, Care Advocate, has successfully completed an intensive training program and is now certified by Keeping Us Safe as one of the North America's "Beyond Driving with Dignity" Professionals.

The "Beyond Driving with Dignity" professional certification program has been designed to equip Beard and other professionals throughout the United States with the tools necessary to help older drivers and their families work through the complicated issue of age-related diminishing driving skills.

Colleen Beard is the owner of CareSpotlight (http://www.carespotlight.com/) and serves as an independent care advocate, working with individuals and families throughout Northeast Ohio. After over 20 years of experience advocating for loved ones living with disabilities/special needs, serious illness, and age-related disease and issues, Beard decided to launch her own business as an advocate, and now offers everything from crisis care management, to general care management and in-home or facility visitation/reporting services.

Having received this certification, Beard is now well-suited to provide older drivers and their families with a very specific program that will help make decisions on how to keep the older driver safe.   She will begin providing services to older drivers and their concerned families throughout the greater Cleveland area effective immediately.

"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 Beard.  "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.  Beard can be reached at 216-659-5519 or by email at colleen@carespotlight.com.

Certification in the Beyond Driving with Dignity program is designed to be a common-sense approach to facilitate (and often times mediate!) rational, common-sense driving-related solutions based on tangible facts and personal observations.  The "Beyond Driving with Dignity" professional will receive annual in-service trainings and is required to meet standards of professionalism to maintain their certification.

For more information on the program please visit www.keepingussafe.org.  Media inquiries are asked to call 216-904-8841 for more information.