The Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) Club at American Heritage Schools’ Broward Campus hosted Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)’s “Power of You(th)®” presentation, aiming to lift consciousness of the risks of impaired driving earlier than promenade night time and commencement. The meeting for eleventh and Twelfth-grade college students was organized by Harlee Ross, a junior at American Heritage Schools and the president of the SADD Club.
During the “Power of You(th)” presentation, over 600 seniors and juniors from American Heritage Schools have been educated in regards to the probably deadly penalties of impaired driving. The DUI exposition included an indication of the potential outcomes of driving beneath the affect of medication and alcohol. Guardian Fleet Services supplied a crashed DUI automobile on campus for college students to look at real-life examples of those risks. Members of the Plantation Fire Department extracted mannequins from the simulated automobile crash utilizing the jaws of life instruments whereas offering a story of the scene.
Notable executives from MADD, reminiscent of Heather Geronemus, the founding father of Walk Like MADD & MADD Dash Fort Lauderdale, and Jennifer Walsh, the MADD South Florida space govt director, have been in attendance. A younger lady and sufferer named Bree Ann Marie Camacho shared her story and supplied ideas and methods on making knowledgeable choices. Students additionally heard impactful tales and phrases from Geronemus and Ross.
“We’re grateful to work with MADD to coach our college students and deliver consciousness to the risks of impaired and harmful driving, particularly forward of particular celebrations reminiscent of promenade and commencement,” says Dr. Doug Laurie, president of American Heritage Schools. “We are pleased with our college students who’re a part of the SADD Club and helped deliver this impactful presentation to our college students.”
In South Florida, the native MADD affiliate’s annual Walk Like MADD & MADD Dash Fort Lauderdale 5K has raised greater than $3.7 million because it was based in 2011 by Geronemus, whose late father, Dr. Robert Perry Geronemus, was struck and killed by a drunk driver in 2009.
“It was an incredible honor to work with the SADD Club and the workers at American Heritage Schools to as soon as once more host MADD’s Power of You(th) presentation on campus to coach college students on the tragedies that drunk driving causes,” Geronemus says. “Events reminiscent of these increase consciousness and put us one step nearer to seeing a future with no extra victims of this 100% preventable crime.”
