Changing Lives And Protecting Students

     My school, Batesville High School, started a SADD Chapter to keep the students at our school safer due to a recent tragedy that had happened. "Founded as Studdents Against Driving Drunk in 1981 in Wayland, Massachusetts, SADD has grown to become the nation's leading peer-to-peer youth education and prevention organization with thousands of chapters in middle schools, high schools, and colleges." SADD is now known as Students Against Destructive Decisions thanks to SADD students themselves. They realized that it's not just alcohol that's available to students, but also drugs and other destructive decisions that could really hurt them. "SADD's unique approach involves young people delivering education and prevention messages to their peers through school- and communitywide activites and campaigns responsive to the needs of their particular locations." Prom is approaching fast for Batesville and I personally have talked to many of my friends about not doing anything that could potentially hurt them or others. Most SADD Chapters have SADD assemblies to teach the students about it who are about to head into middle school, high school, or college so that they know what it's about and how great it actually is.
     SADD members can help volunteer with so many things. "Membership into SADD is a commitment and a voluntary process. Members set the environment for other students to follow here on campus." The students are really the ones who do everything, the adviser just advises. If the students don't do much to help the club and their peers, then the peers aren't going to be interested in joining. "Service projects are one of the best ways to constructively engage youth; in fact, the rewards and experiences gained during a service project have the potential to leave a huge impact on not only those in need, but also those serving." The service act doesn't have to be much, it can just be a simple act of kindness. You'll feel so much better after helping someone and seeing how it changed them.

 http://sadd.org/sadd_serves.htm
 http://sadd.org/history.htm
 http://www.volunteermatch.org/search/org353291.jsp