8. NASBLA’s BOAT Program
• More than 11,000 First Responders Trained since 2010
• 52 Direct Delivery classes delivered
• 27 In-Direct classes delivered
• 7 Grant funded classes delivered
• 22 courses on catalog + PWC & Drone
• 27 Accredited Partners
9. What’s New
• AMS and LMS transition – Micro Learning
• 2018 began offering BAI to Non-Law Enforcement
• Strategic Planning – In Place and adopted
• National District Attorney’s Association
• LSU -- Agreement
10. Building consensus and collaboration
• Between our Staff, Executive Board, Members and Partners
• Professional development
• Leadership Academy
• Committee Work
• BLA Workshop
• Annual Conference
• Association – building strong partners
• Innovative growth
• Not one size fits all
• State to State Peer support
• Laboratories for democracy
11. 2019 – to – 2022 NASBLA Strategic
Plan
5 Major Goals
• Diversified Funding
• Eliminate Barriers for Boaters – increasing participation
• Expanded Training – to better serve diversity of need
• Proactive Legislative Program – states and national policy
• State Program Performance and Efficiency – promoting
excellence
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12. Why do we like Life Jackets?
• Law enforcement mandatory wear – 100% Member agencies
• Loaner jacket programs
• Increase wear rates within RBS
• Army Corps Projects – WORK!
• They save lives !
• Video produced by NASBLA’s LE Committee:
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In 1932, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis memorably remarked that the U.S. federal system allowed any individual state to be a “laboratory” for experiments in policy, without putting the rest of the nation at risk