The Riverhead High School SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) Club hosted a week of activities focused on raising awareness about topics such as the dangers of drinking and/or texting and driving, toxic relationships, alcohol abuse and bullying.
Originally, the mission of the SADD chapter was to help young people say “No” to drinking and driving. Today, the mission has expanded. Positive peer pressure, role modeling and environmental strategies can prevent destructive decisions and set a healthier, safer course for young lives. And that is why SADD has become a peer-to-peer education, prevention, and activism organization dedicated to preventing destructive decisions, particularly underage drinking, other drug use, risky and impaired driving, teen violence, and teen suicide. (From the online SADD Mission statement.)
At the week’s first event, representatives from Allstate Insurance company encouraged students to take a pledge to refrain from “txting” while driving. The students who participated read a pledge, signed a pledge card with their thumb print and received a small ” txting kills” ring. Their participation also qualified the students for a chance at a raffle prize. Other students who participated received small gifts by spinning a gift wheel.
Wednesday’s topic was “toxic relationships”. Thursday’s events focused on awareness about the dangers of “alcohol abuse”. The concluding event on Friday was a school assembly on all of these topics but most specifically about “bullying”. The assembly was led by representatives from Clean Slate Living.
Source: Press release issued by Riverhead Central School District, April 15.
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