The Concerned Angels team is comprised of safety experts and professionals from many different fields.  As participants in a growing network of national and local teams, we all have the common goal of eliminating motor vehicle crashes as the leading cause of death of children in the United States.  Concerned Angels is gracious for our sponsors and contributors, including:  Chick-fil-A, First 5 Children and Families Commission, The Randolph and Susan Reynolds Foundation, California Department of Transportation, Ukrop's Supermarkets, and San Bernardino County Department of Health.  San Bernardino County has adopted a Resolution commending Concerned Angels' work with child passenger safety, and declaring the second week in February as Child Passenger Safety Week.  The support of our sponsors enables Concerned Angels to reach and teach parents and caregivers how to protect their children. 

Our call for help:  S.O.S. stands for Students Onto Safety and is a way for students to rally together in the successful adoption of needed safety standards. 

  Following is some information about the CEO, Sandy Golden and the President, Dr. Ginny Frings:  

“Build upon past accomplishments, try and always do the right thing everyday, and look forward to the future”

Sandy Golden is an award winning investigative reporter, activist and author.  Although he is not well known to the general public, his work has helped protect and has touched the lives of every American citizen and has spread internationally.  His mission is to protect the lives of children.  He is a proven mass “lifesaver.”  His goal is to eliminate car crashes as the leading cause of death of children.

Mr. Golden was one of the original three organizers of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) and was the acclaimed organization’s first executive director.   Mr. Golden was MADD’s strategist in its start up phase (1980) and mentored two grieving mothers teaching them how to aggressively fight for long overdue reform. He left MADD and went to work with faith based organizations to expand the needed work.

Mr. Golden was the pioneering leader recognized by officials from the U.S. Department of Transportation and the National Safety Council for being chiefly responsible for the nationwide publicity and public outcry that resulted in triggering the mass movement that became a heralded nationwide lifesaving shift in attitudes toward drinking and driving. To capture the nation’s attention he put two victims (“Mothers”) before the media and wisely stayed mostly in the background.  Working with the American Council on Alcohol Problems (ACAP), he was able to get Congress and the White House to address the issue.  Mr. Golden was able to push the drunken driving issue onto the nation’s agenda within 2 years and start a chain reaction of reform efforts in every state that continues to this day.

In 1982 the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration at the first of the now yearly National Lifesavers Conferences presented him with an award for his leadership in the anti-drunk driving movement. The award cited his “extraordinary contribution to the cause of highway safety.”   Because of the magnitude of his accomplishment it was the only award given at the inaugural conference and he received a standing ovation from the more than 600 traffic safety advocates and experts from across the nation who attended. Mr. Golden is a charismatic public speaker, but the award was an unsolicited surprise and it left him “speechless.”  Often controversial in his younger days, he has evolved into a  leader who knows how to build positive campaigns to accomplish goals.

Dr. Ginny Frings is a mother of 8-year-old twins, mother of a 4-year-old little girl, college professor and accomplished motivational speaker.   Dr. Frings owns Motivational Programs That Make a Difference and Motiv8 Movement Web Designs, both businesses headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Dr. Frings is President and National Spokesperson for Concerned Angels, Inc., a national child passenger safety team. 

Subsequent to her career in the banking industry as a Regulatory Reporting Coordinator and Asset/Liability Management Analyst, she earned her Ph.D. and embarked on a professorial and professional speaking career.  She has taught many courses, including:   Cash Management, Professional Ethics for Accountants, Managerial Accounting (MBA), Advanced Auditing (MACC), Investments, Financial Management, Advanced Corporate Finance, and others.  She provides programs on Effective Change Management, Achieving Goals, Healing as a Positive Process of Change, Communicating Effectively, and the Importance of Child car seat Safety.  Dr. Frings’ program participants learn, apply, and find her proven techniques tremendously useful to their lives and businesses. 

She conducts Experimental Economics and Quality Management research.  She publishes quality management articles.  In addition to her research, Dr. Frings is currently writing a book on effectively managing change, and in coordination with Concerned Angels has completed a child car seat safety instructional DVD. 

The impetus for her programs on the Importance of Child car seat Safety is her experience on June 15, 2000, when she and her twins miraculously survived a head-on car collision when another driver was driving the wrong direction on the interstate evading police.  Since the accident, the doctors' prognosis for her recovery has run the spectrum from "not expected to make it" to “having to learn to walk again" to "regaining her life as mother, wife, and college professor."  After 12 surgeries, many months of daily physical therapy, many answers to prayers, and much time spent thinking about all of the lessons she has learned during her recovery, Ginny now uses her story to encourage others through her inspiring talks on goal achievement, change management, and the importance of child car seat safety.  Her programs based on her experiences and several years of research on child car seat safety restraints, are eye-opening, informative, and intriguing.  Her story makes a big impact on her audiences.  Ginny educates, entertains, and inspires corporations, schools, universities, organizations, civic groups, churches, medical audiences, and others, with her unique program style.