Update from the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators (NASBLA). Speaker: John Johnson, NASBLA, Executive Director

2. • Staffing agreement
synergy
• Capabilities
• Strategic Planning
• Complementary
Programming
• Grant Writing
• Building Partnerships

3. • Corporate Home and
Training Facility
• Full-service Staffing
• Financial
• Conferences
• Coordination
• Government Affairs
• Professional association
management training

4. • EKU Facilitated Planning –
Shaping the future
• Association expansion to include
stakeholders
• Diversity of Executive Board
leadership
• Bringing focus to mission and
purpose

5. • Policy focus on life jacket wear
• State front line influencers on the water
• Member agency mandatory wear policies
• The teaching moments – Leverage the partnership

6. • 2022 release of Life Jacket Website
– on LJA Platform
• 2023 grant application to create
“Life Jacket Technician”
• Future grant ideas to focus on
drawing the industry, point of sale
and the public to all things life
jackets.

7. • Is what we do
• Inclusion builds
bridges and trust
• Inclusion gets results
• Inclusion builds
strength
• What does LJA’s future
look like – what would
you like to see?

8. • Life Jacket/PFD/Other Flotation
Working Group
• Submitted recommendations
related to both boating and non-
boating in five focus areas
• National Boating Education
Standards Panel
• Development of K – 12 Life Jacket
Standards

9. john@nasbla.org
www.nasbla.org