GNYADA November 2014 Newsletter

16 Helms Bros. Mercedes-Benz Donates CPR Unit

Helms Bros. Mercedes-Benz general manager and GNYADA Board Member Suzanne Cochran was joined by dealership principal Doug Callaghan and shop foreman Jason Valentin to present a Resusci Anne CPR training unit to CPR Instructor/EMT Steven kmiotek of the Bayside Volunteer Ambulance Corp., in Bayside, Queens. kmiotek thanked Cochrane, Callaghan, Helms Bros. Mercedes-Benz, GNYADA, and the National Automobile Dealers Association Charitable Foundation for the donation. The donation is part of the National Automobile Dealers Association’s community outreach program. NADA’s program is administered locally by GNYADA. Nationwide, since 1975, franchised automobile dealers have donated thousands of manikins worth more than $3 million on which more than 2 million people have been trained. It is so important to provide these training units as every second counts in saving a life. If bystander CPR is not provided, a sudden cardiac arrest victim’s chances of survival fall 7 to 10 percent for every minute of delay until defibrillation. A delegation of Chinese educators, including Ms. Zhansheng Ji, an Official of the Beijing Education Commission, visited GNYADA to learn about technical automotive vocational training. GNYADA’s Center for Automotive Education & Training (CAET) is considered one of the best in the nation for vocational training and a model for this type of school-to-work training. The dele- gation was greeted by the GNYADA’s Director of Education & Training Ed Gazzillo, who led the group on a tour of the Center with the purpose of sharing ideas on the future of automotive education and training. “We are thrilled that our training center is on the radar of vocational educators in Beijing,” said Gazzillo. “We have a great community facility here, in conjunction with Lincoln Technical Institute, that is training young people for high-paying careers in the retail auto industry.” The group included the Beijing Education Commissioner and a principal and instructor from a Beijing vocational high school. The visit underscores GNYADA’s position 17

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It’s easy to donate to your local Ambulance Corp., Fire or Police Depts., Schools, and so forth. Contact GNYADA’s Membership Services Director Jennifer Berman at Jennifer@gnyada.com for an application to donate to your local group. These units are provided to dealers for donation free of charge, so please don’t hesitate. Breathing new life into the community: Helms Bros. owner Doug Callaghan (r), GM Suzanne Cochrane (l), and shop foreman Jason Valentin present Bayside Ambulance Corps. CPR Instructor/EMT Steven Kmiotek with a new CPR manikin.

GNYADA’s Training Center Chosen by Chinese Educators as Model for Vocational Training

as an industry leader in automotive education and training and is a testament to its ongoing efforts of providing a highly skilled workforce to auto dealers in the area. Stephen Mercaldo, AYES New York State Field Manager, GNYADA; Ms. Jing Du, English teacher at the Beijing Vocational HS. l to r: Ms. Zhansheng Ji, Official of the Beijing Education Commission; Doris Pokras, CCIM, Global Career Services, Inc.; Ms. Aiqin Zhao, Principal of Beijing Vocational HS; Edward Gazzillo, Director of Education & Training, GNYADA;

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