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National Protect Your Identity Week 2008 featured nearly 140 events held in 36 states and directly reached more than 15,000 consumers. The following represents some highlights from across the country:
Credit Counseling of Arkansas:
Stephen Svetz, an ID theft investigator in the Office of the Attorney General for the state of Arkansas, led an ID theft presentation at the Bentonville Public Library. His PowerPoint slide is of Arkansas' Identity Theft Passport, which Arkansas was the second state to get.
CCCS of Southern West Virginia:
CCCS of Sothern West Virginia staff at the Agency's shredding event.
CCCS of Southern West Virginia CEO Jeff Wise speaking during Protect Your Identity Week.
CCCS of Central Alabama:
CCCS of Central Alabama Counseling Supervisor Al CLolinger (with the wild hat and hair) pictured at the Agency's benefits fair where they distributed literature to all staff regarding budgeting and identity theft related tips.
CCCS of Coos-Curry:
The agency organized a "Free Confidential Document Shred Day" on October 25th, with four guest speakers, Agent Jason Cherry from the FBI (pictured), Sergeant Dave Hermann from the Coos County Sheriff's Office, Detective Jon Bohanan from the North Bend Police Department, and Detective Scott Rogers from the Coos Bay Police Department.
CCCS of Coos-Curry also obtained a Gubernatorial Proclamation from Governor Ted Kulangoski and two Mayoral Proclamations from the Mayor of Coos Bay, Jeff McKeown, and the Mayor of North Bend, Rick Wetherell, officially recognizing the week of Oct. 19 - 25 as National Protect Your Identity Week.
Springboard:
Springboard's Melinda Opperman (left) pictured in front of the shredding truck along side the shredding tech.
A tip card, developed by Springboard for Protect Your Identity Week.
CCCS of Southern Oregon
Clients lined up at the shredding event organized by CCCS of Southern Oregon.
Other clients taking part in an ID theft prevention presentation by CCCS of Southern Oregon.
CCCS of the Black Hills highlighted PYIW in their monthly newsletter, obtained several media placements, and highlighted the issue in several financial literacy classes.
CCCS-Compass of Carolina, despite the rain that day, held a shredding event and got fairly good turnout.
CCCS of Forsyth County worked with the Allegacy Federal Credit Union to pull tri-merge credit reports, assisted with shredding documents, obtained a proclamation from the local mayor, and conducted several interviews with media outlets.
Family Service Agency - CCCS (Arkansas) held several events and classes out of their offices in Arkansas and Mississippi.
Housing and Credit Counseling, Inc. (Topeka, KS) held a number of ID theft prevention events, including several with Maureen Mitchell, who spoke at the NFCC's Annual Leaders Conference in 2005 in Albuquerque and also appears in the video on the ProtectYourIDNow.org Web site.
CCCS of North Central West Virginia held a shredding event.
CCCS of West Florida held a brown bag lunch for consumers where they showed a short video on ID theft, Identity Crisis.
CCCS of Oklahoma did a significant number of media interviews.
CCCS of McHenry County conducted a successful shredding event and also focused on the issue in a recurring column in the local newspaper.
LifeSpan held a series of events with local merchants and others.
The Village Family Service Center conducted several presentations and also did a number of media interviews.
CCCS of Buffalo shredded a massive amount of personal financial information for consumers and also held a couple of workshops.
CCCS of Central New York held five shred days, one each at each of their offices, and conducted several media interviews.
FamilyMeans CCCS did a huge amount of community outreach for their shredding even and also received some positive media coverage.
CCCS of New Hampshire and Vermont held a shredding event and also passed out literature on ID theft prevention.
CCCS of Northeastern PA held a couple of very successful awareness and shredding events.
CCCS of Northern Idaho worked with consumers, pulling and reviewing their credit report and talking about credit.
CCCS of Northern CO and Southest WY worked with the Fort Collins Police Department on a public event and passed out information to service members on Warren AFB.
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