Youthline September -December 2013 newsletter

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

MYHSP TEAM ADDS NEW POSITION AND NEW RESOURCES

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MYHSP TEAM SPLITS STATE INTO REGIONS

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CLUB OFFICER TRAINING HIGHLIGHTS

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FORD DSFL HIGHLIGHTS 5

CONTEST INFORMATION 6

CELEBRATE MY DRIVE 7

SADD NEWS 8

SAB TAKE THEIR WORK HOME

SAB Holiday Picture Caption

THE MISSISSIPPI SAB WISH YOU A SAFE HOLIDAY SEASON!!

Volume 2, Issue 1

September—December 2013

WINTER ACTIVITIES

5 TO DRIVE CAMPAIGN

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Your Student Advisory Board (SAB) not only works on putting together the two

statewide youth conferences, Club Officer Training and Teens On the Move, they also work in their home communities on youth highway safety with their peers. From July

to November the SAB have: made boxes to put their phones in while driving, recruited clubs and youth groups to attend Club Officer Training, placed youth highway safety posters in their schools , wrote letters

to their state senators supporting a statewide restriction on texting while driving, and reminded peers and adults in their community about safe driving by getting them to pledge to be focused

drivers.

This program is funded by monies made available by NHTSA and is a partnership between the Mississippi Office of Highway Safety and DREAM, Inc.

DISTRACTED DRIVING AND PLEDGE

CONTACT MYHSP

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Help us welcome the newest

member of our DREAM Team and

Mississippi Youth Highway Safety

Programs —Brianna Anderson.

Brianna comes to us from another

grant at DREAM, Inc. She is the

Youth Outreach Specialist. She

will provide program support and

help us with the details of the

conferences, SAB, and other youth

highway safety events. She will also

provide technical support to clubs

and community youth groups so

they include youth highway

messages in their group activities.

She keeps us on track and likes to

have fun too!!

Brianna Anderson

Youth Outreach Specialist

BRIANNA ANDERSON

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MISSISSIPPI YOUTH—WE’VE GOT YOUR BACK!

Over 400 officers and prevention professionals all focused on highway safety attended the Mississippi Office of

Highway Safety STARS Conference held in Olive Branch, Mississippi on September 24-26, 2013. Our youth

highway safety team provided a presentation on youth highway safety and attended the rest of the conference.

Mississippi’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Region 6 Director, Pat Tucker also attended the

conference. Ms. Pat posed with the DREAM Team as we sent the message—we’ve got your back.

Pictured from left to right: Rod Thurman, Gabe Pope, Pat Tucker, Glenda Crump, Tawni Basden, Alexandria Cantrell and De’Marco Fomby

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Who can you call for youth highway safety resources, presentations,

and technical assistance for your school or community?

The map below divides Mississippi into regions to allow the DREAM Team to be able to divide,

conquer and make a bigger difference in youth highway safety across our state.

Central Mississippi:

Tawni Basden, CPM Youth Highway Safety Programs Director

601.933.9197 [email protected]

www.msyouthhighwaysafety.org

Brianna Anderson Youth Highway Safety Programs

Youth Outreach Specialist 601.933.9193

[email protected] www.msyouthhighwaysafety.org

Tawni and Brianna provide technical

assistance statewide as needed.

De’Marco

Tawni

Brianna

Alexandria

Left: Skylar, Trevor, and De’Marco Fomby gear up for the Rock the Belt breakout session.

Rise Up- Reset- Revolutionize Youth

Highway Safety was the message the

Student Advisory Board (SAB) spread to the 580 students and school advisors

at The 2013 Mississippi Club Officer Training held on September 18, 2013 at

the Clyde Muse Center in Pearl, MS.

Students experienced an educational and entertaining day of highway safety

activities and workshops. The nationally renowned inspirational speaker, Rashad

Jones, delivered a powerful keynote

speech on leadership and making a difference. The youth then chose

breakout sessions that incorporated

national campaigns such as State

Farm's Celebrate My Drive and

Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation’s Drive Now Text Later,

along with other workshops focused on highway safety like Walk the Line

(impaired driving) and Rock the Belt

(seat belt safety). The overall objective of the day was to send these club

officers and leaders back to their schools with information, resources,

and practical applications of highway

safety that they could implement in their schools and communities to

reinforce highway safety all year long.

Pictured Left: Club Officer

Training conference t-shirt

design.

Pictured Right and below: The SAB was not only in charge of

conducting the conference, but

they also came up with skits and songs that were designed to reach

their peers in an innovative, informative way. Overall, the

2013 Mississippi Club Officer

Training was a huge success, and the MYHSP team would like to

personally thank everyone who participated, volunteered and assisted in making it an outstanding experience. Remember to Rise up, Reset, and REVOLUTINIZE youth

highway safety. It's not a moment, but a MOVEMENT.

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CLUB OFFICER TRAINING BOOT CAMP HIGHLIGHTS PAGE 4

Above: Student Advisory Board pose for media before the COT boot camp

begins.


Ready. Set. DRIVE.

Ford Driving Skills for Life is a one

day event sponsored by Ford Motor Company and the Governor's

Highway Safety Association that

recognizes the need for a better

driving experience for novice teen

drivers. It is an opportunity for 100 students from high risk crash areas to

gain the necessary skills and resources to safely operate a motor

vehicle. Ford awarded his grant to five

states in the United States, and this year Mississippi qualified for this

opportunity. The

grant was

awarded to the Mississippi Office

of Highway Safety and coordinated

through DREAM,

Inc. Four schools from around the state were chosen to

participate in this event. Byhalia High School, Callaway High School,

Canton High School, and Lanier

High School all actively engaged in a

variety of activities. The day included

Ford Driving Skills Gameshow, Rock the Belt and Walk the Line

sponsored by The Mississippi Youth

Highway Safety Programs team from DREAM Inc., Rover Rollover and

Sidne, sponsored by MDOT, and a driving course with golf carts and

Driver's Education instructors from around the state.

Above: Two students ride in SIDNE, an impaired driving go cart run by the

Mississippi Department of Transportation.


TOTM SAVE THE DATE

FORD DRIVING SKILLS FOR LIFE EVENT


Top: Byhalia High School

Bottom: Lanier High School

Top: Canton Career Center

Bottom: Callaway High School

The 25th Annual Mississippi

Teens on the Move Conference

will be here before we know it,

and if your school or club hasn’t

started documenting your

highway safety activities, then

it’s time to get going! The

following are possible awards

your school could win to be

given out at Teens on the Move.:

T-shirt Design

Activity of the Year

Club of the Year

Student of the Year

Sponsor of the Year

Once your school is

registered for TOTM you

will receive a confirmation

packet with more detailed

instructions for the awards.

Registration will open early January and will close,

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28., 2014.

Teens on the Move shirts will be ordered MARCH 3., 2014

The conference will take place at the Jackson Coliseum on

APRIL 10, 2014. If there are any

questions, please e-mail Youth Programs

Director, Tawni Basden, at [email protected].

ROCK THE BELT: Upload a pic of

you or your friends rockin’ your

seat belts (not while driving of

course!) OR wearing a Rock the

Belt tee OR attending a Rock the

Belt event. Tag

#ms_youthhwysafety and #RTB

or #RocktheBelt and a monthly

prize will be sent out to those who

do it creatively and do it often!

ROCK THE BELT/ SOBER SNAPSHOT CONTESTS

2014 MISSISSIPPI TEENS ON THE MOVE

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You only get one

take on life.

Drive to Stay Alive.

25th Annual

Teens on the Move

April 10, 2014

SOBER SNAPSHOTS: Upload a pic of

you or your friends having some sober fun in your community!.This is a chance to

really use those creative juices. Have a

game night, night hide-and-go-seek in the local park, the possibilities are endless!

Just show how you got there driving sober and safe by tagging ms_youthhwysafety and #sobersnapshots and a monthly prize

will be sent out to those who do it creatively and do it often!


6,313,719. That is the number of

Celebrate My Drive

commitments made by students

to not text and drive. That is the

number of lives that can be saved

by driving focused, wearing the

seat belt correctly, every time

and driving sober and

unimpaired.

On December 9, State Farm will

be announcing their Celebrate

My Drive winners. The winners

are determined by how many

commitments were made to not text and

drive from a large school and a small

school. Schools could win one of ten

$100,000 grants, one of 90 $25,000

grants, and one of two concerts given by

the one and only, Kelly Clarkson! The

following Mississippi schools participated

in Celebrate My Drive this year and

thousands of votes poured in. The amount

of support Mississippi received by our

students was overwhelming and this is

just one step closer to keeping our roads

safe. Thank you to the 62 Mississippi

schools that participated in Celebrate

My Drive!


CELEBRATE MY DRIVE

Port Gibson High School Provine High School Raleigh High School

Richland High School Ripley High School

Salem Attendance Center Senatobia High School Simpson County Academy St. Patrick Catholic High School

Starkville Academy Starkville High School Strayborn High School

Strider Academy Taylorville High School

Tupelo High School Union High School Water Valley High School West Harrison High School West Tallahatchie High

School

Amite County High School Biloxi High School Brandon High School Brookhaven High School Callaway High School Cardozo High School Choctaw Central High School Clarkdale High School Clinton Christian Academy Clinton High School Collins High School Columbia Academy Corinth High School

Magnolia Heights School

McAdams Attendance Center

Mendenhall High School

Mize Attendance Center

Moss Point Vocational Center

Murrah High School

New Hope High School

Newton County Academy

Newton High School

Northwest Rankin High School

Noxubee County High School

Pelahatchie Attendance Center


Ethel Attendance Center

Faulkner High School

Gentry High School

Hattiesburg High School

Hazlehurst High School

Heritage Academy

Horn Lake High School

Houlka Attendance Center

Houston High School

Jackson Academy

Kosciusko High School

Kosciusko - Attala Career Tech

Center

Lamar Christian School

Lawrence County High School

Lee Academy

Long Beach Senior High School

Magee High School

We are excited to bring Mississippi

SADD Sponsor Regional Meetings to

you in January 2014. We have 201

SADD chapters and we would like to

make sure you have what you need to

make your chapter a success. These

meetings will be an effort to :

Assess training needs of chapters

Share resources

Evaluate chapter development

Network and share ideas

The meetings will be from 4:30 –6:30

p.m. and heavy hors d’oeuvres will be

provided.

Please

RSVP by

January

7th,, 2014

to Tawni

@

[email protected].

We will firm up locations in December

before the holiday break.

The Mississippi SADD Chapter

meetings are being sponsored by a grant

from State Farm Insurance.

The meeting dates are below:

Wednesday, January 15:

DREAM, 310 Airport Road, Pearl,

Mississippi 39208

Tuesday, January 21:

Cleveland, MS

Wednesday, January 29:

Gulfport, MS

Tuesday, February 4,:

Tupelo, MS

Tuesday, February 11:

Hattiesburg, MS

2014 SADD National

Conference:

Life is a Jungle:

Join the Expedition

June 22-25, 2014.

SADD is excited to offer an

Early Bird Special this year. The

Ground Package price ($729/

youth; $829/adult), if registered

and $100 nonrefundable deposit

is paid by March 15, 2014, covers

most conference expenses,

including seven meals, all

programming, and three nights

of hotel accommodations at the

Sheraton. It’s a great deal for an

experience that so many past

participants have called

“inspirational” and

“life-changing!” After March

15, the price goes to $779/

youth; $879/adult. For more

information visit www.sadd.org

or click on this link.: http://

sadd.org/pdf/2014%

20SADD%20National%

20Conference%

20Registration%20Packet.pdf

youth show the way to make their schools

and communities better places to live.

Members of the SADD National Student

Leadership Council (SLC) are developing a

resource kit for your use which will provide

step-by-step instructions for activities you can use on SADD Shines Day. More

information will be available on SADD

website in December. Visit www.sadd.org for

more information.

SADD SHINES DAY—FEBRUARY 5, 2014 SADD National is sponsoring a SADD Shines Day, to be held Wednesday, February 5, 2014,.

It is a day to celebrate what makes SADD

special, to highlight all the ways SADD makes a

difference in teen lives, and for SADD chapters

all over the country to celebrate and shine

together. SADD National has chosen the theme "Youth Lighting the Way," and created a

number of activities centered around making

decorated lanterns to illustrate how SADD

STUDENTS AGAINST DESTRUCTIVE DECISIONS

MISSISSIPPI SADD SPONSOR NEWS:

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Nissan has given the Mississippi Office of

Highway Safety and DREAM, Inc. a grant

for the Mississippi Youth Highway Safety Programs to coordinate 25 ThinkFast

interactive events in an effort to educate Mississippi teen drivers about the

importance of youth highway safety.

Car crashes are the number one killer of

teens in the United States. Nissan

recognizes this alarming statistic and

wants to bring ThinkFast Interactive to 25

Mississippi schools to raise our teen

awareness level about youth highway

safety. The Mississippi Youth Highway

Safety Programs picked a mix of public

and private high schools that had more

than three youth highway fatalities in

2012. The youth programs team is in the

process of setting up the locations and

they will be firmed up by the end of

December. The interactive

presentations will be held in January

and February 2014.

The Mississippi Youth Highway Safety

Programs staff, along with the ThinkFast

staff will engage and educate the youth

in an interactive, highway safety

focused, game show!

The next YOUTHLINE newsletter will

highlight the Mississippi ThinkFast

events.

White House has a cool teen

toolkit full of activities to raise

awareness about drugged and

drunk driving .

The link is: http://

www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/

files/ondcp/issues-content/

drugged_driving_toolkit.pdf

More 3D ideas:

Host a teen community event to

raise awareness

It Can Wait ,Drive Sober or Get Pulled

Over, Click It or Ticket - these

successful campaigns bring attention

to distracted

and impaired

driving, and

the

importance of

seat belt

usage, but

what about

drugged

driving? The

Have a 3D door decorating contest

Have a social media blitz

Have a school poster campaign

3D: DECEMBER IS DRUGGED & DRUNK DRIVING AWARENESS MONTH

WINTER FUN ACTIVITIES: Winter is upon us, and in Mississippi,

that means bare trees, Egg Bowl, sinus

medication, and time away from

homework. So, instead of sitting at home

watching and/or arguing over whether

Elf or The Grinch is better with younger

brothers and sisters, get out with friends

and follow this scavenger hunt. While

you’re out, Rock the Belt, drive sober,

keep the speed and number of


Nissan sponsors ThinkFast,

an interactive game show

designed to educate students

on teen driver safety.

THINKFAST INTERACTIVE AWARENESS COMES TO MISSISSIPPI


passengers down, and the safety TURNT

up!

Scavenger Hunt Ideas

1. Make a string of lights look like a

seat belt across a snowman, reindeer,

Santa, and friend.

2. Find a highway safety related

ornament; phone, road, be creative!

4 . A picture of a car, van, or truck with the

most decorations

5. A video of a Salvation Army bell ringer

telling teens to “Buckle up this holiday

season”.

6. Elf on a Shelf in different highway

situations; buckled up, driving without

drinking egg nog, driving with his cell

phone put up, etc.

The U.S. Department of

Transportation’s National Highway

Traffic Safety Administration

(NHTSA) recently unveiled a new

campaign that challenges parents

to discuss five critical driving

practices with their teenage drivers

that can have the greatest

beneficial impacts in the event of a

crash. The new "5 to Drive"

campaign was launched to coincide

with National Teen Driver Safety

Week, October 20-26, 2013.

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NHTSA “5 TO DRIVE” SOCIAL MEDIA MESSAGES::

Visit http://www.trafficsafetymarketing.gov/teens for teen driver media campaign materials.

"The ‘5 to Drive’ campaign gives parents and teens a simple, straightforward checklist that

can help them talk about good driving skills and most importantly, prevent a tragedy

before it happens." - U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx

NHTSA “5 TO DRIVE” CAMPAIGN ENCOURAGES PARENT/ TEEN DRIVING DISCUSSION

The "5 to Drive"

campaign topics are: 1. No cell phone use or

texting while driving

2. No extra passengers 3. No speeding

4. No alcohol

5. No driving or riding without a seat belt

"Safety is our highest priority,

especially when it comes to teens, who

are often our least experienced

drivers," said Anthony Foxx, U.S.

Transportation Secretary. NHTSA

data show motor vehicle crashes are

the leading cause of death for

teenagers 14-18 years old in the United

States. In 2011, 2,105 teen drivers were

involved in fatal crashes. Of those

teens involved in fatal crashes, 1,163

(55 percent) survived, and 942 (45

percent) died in the crash.



What distractions drive you? This graphic above provides information about what happens when we use our phones and drive. Don’t let your car become a weapon. Take our pledge to be a focused, safe driver. Fax or mail back to us

and we will put you in for a drawing for a door prize!! We also have an adult pledge . Contact information on page 12.

FOR TEEN DRIVERS UNDER THE AGE OF 21:

I, ___________________________________, recognize the dangers of underage drinking. Furthermore, I recognize that the laws of Mississippi and all states in the United States make it illegal for me to drink alcohol until the age of 21. Therefore, I pledge I will model appropriate driving and drinking patterns for myself and my peers.

I pledge:

I will not drink alcohol and then drive, I will wear my seat belt and will always ask that all passengers wear their seatbelt, I will act responsible when driving knowing that any wrong choices I make in driving could injure or kill passengers in my

vehicle or in another vehicle I will drive focused, put my phone away and eliminate other distractions while driving I will not get in a car where someone is making unsafe decisions I will educate my peers on safe driving habits

____________________ ____________________ Signature Date

The mission of the Mississippi Youth Highway Safety Programs is to decrease youth

motor vehicle fatalities and injuries by improving seat belt usage and decreasing

impaired driving. If you see a need in your school or community for this mission,

please contact us and we will work with you to save lives on Mississippi roads.

Our DREAM Team:

Tawni Basden

Youth Programs Director


Alex Cantrell

Youth Programs Coordinator


De’Marco Fomby

Youth Programs Specialist


Brianna Anderson

Youth Outreach Specialist

601.933.9193

[email protected]


Find Us:

DREAM, Inc.

310 Airport Road,

Pearl, Mississippi 39208

Fax: 601.933.1138

www.msYOUTHhighwaysafety.org

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/

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Instagram @ms_youthhwysafety

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