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Lincoln's Challenge Students to be Trained by SALF

June 5, 2006
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In an unprecedented partnership, the Save A Life Foundation (SALF) is teaming with the Lincoln's Challenge Academy
of the National Guard to provide basic life sustaining first aid skills to students attending the academy. The program is
expected to train over 400 cadets in 2006. and more in subsequent years. The Lincoln's Challenge Academy will house
a newly formed SALF branch at its location in Rantoul, IL and will provide a base for training.

"Lincoln's Challenge puts students on the right track to become successful adults," said Illinois Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn.
"This partnership will provide cadets with the power to save a life."

"1 commend the Lincoln's Challenge program Illinois taking a leadership role as we work to give live saving skills to
young people." said Carol Spizzirri, president and founder of SALF. "By giving at-risk youth the skills they need to
save a life, not only is their confidence enhanced, but their role in society is changed forever."

The alliance between the Illinois National Guard Lincoln's Challenge program represents the First of what SALF
organizers hope to be many between SALF and Lincoln's Challenge, which are also know as Youth Challenge programs
nationwide. "We're starting here in Illinois but there's no reason this program shouldn't spread to other Lincoln's
Challenge programs across the nation," said Vince Davis, SALF's National Director of Military Affairs.

The Lincoln's Challenge Academy, fonned in 1993, is one of the first of what lias grown to be the Youth Challenge
program, represented in 25 states. The goal of the program is to improve life coping skills and employability of students
who drop out of high school. The program has earned respect in academic circles for being an alternative when
traditional educational methods fail.

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November 6, ,2008

Youth Challe/VGe- SALF For Emergency

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Illinois - Throughout the past year National Guard Youth Challe/VGe Academy Cadre {staff) have worked diligently
with Save A Life Foundation (SALF) to train thousands of Youth Challe/VGe cadets in basic life supporting first aid
{LSFA) skills. Cadet training continues at sites across the country, with the expectation of thousands more being trained
in the coming year. Funded by the Department of Defense, SALF coordinated the training of 140 Youth Challe/VGe
Cadre, with medical backgrounds as instructors, provided training materials and equipment to train their cadets at Youth
Challe/VGe Academies in more than 30 sites nationwide.

In 1993, the Youth Challe/VGe program, opened in Rantoul, Illinois (at the former Chanute Air Force Base) by the
National Guard Bureau in an effort to provide alternative education for high school "at risk" students ages 16-18 who
were in danger of dropping out of traditional school environments. The success of Lincoln's Challe/VGe lead to the
opening of Youth Challe/VGe sites, most at military bases, across the country.

In 2005 Lincoln's Challe/VGe Academy's Director, Sergeant Major Peter Thomas initiated a partnership with SALF to
empower cadets with life supporting first aid skills as part of a well balanced education, creating a network of
spontaneous volunteers ready to lend aid in an emergency prior to emergency medical service arrival. Mentored by
their instructor the cadets also come to value the role of emergency medical service (EMS) as a possible career choice.

Led by National Guard professionals, SALF's Bystander Basics© course became so well accepted by the cadets that in
2006 the Guard's Independent Inspection Team observed and evaluated the training for themselves, reporting to
National Guard Bureau Headquarters in Washington, DC their extreme satisfaction with the program. Alimentally this
stimulated Youth Challe/VGe Academies at 30 sites to incorporate SALF's course for nearly 7,000 cadets.

Over the course of one year SALF monitored, evaluated and reported the results of each trained Cadet, revealing 97%
retention of skills learned. Thus, proving cadets now have the knowledge and willingness to lend aid in an emergency.
This was further demonstrated at Florida's Youth Challe/VGe, Camp B landing, Starke, Florida, with a cadet's life being
saved shortly after the course. "By empowering our youth with life saving skills they become a more responsible
citizen," stated Carol Spizzirri, SALF Founder.

Save A Life Foundation continues to work with Youth Challe/VGe Academies, to expand its focus on our youth,
by providing classroom and practical training with it's First Responder - Careers in Healthcare {FR-CIH) course to
willing cadets. FR-CIH is geared toward high school aged youth. The cadet can receive National Registry of
Emergency Medical Technicians {NREMT) First Responder, Incident Command System (ICS) and National Incident
Management System {NIMS) certifications upon completion. FR-CIH compliments the Youth Challe/VGe program
perfectly, preparing young men and women to enter advanced training for a career in emergency medical services, law
enforcement, fire service, nursing, emergency management or public service, and could earn cadet's an additional stripe
should they enter the military service.

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