The College students Towards Harmful Choices (SADD) Membership at American Heritage Faculties’ Broward Campus hosted Moms Towards Drunk Driving (MADD)’s “Energy of You(th)®” presentation, aiming to lift consciousness of the hazards 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 Faculties and the president of the SADD Membership.
In the course of the “Energy of You(th)” presentation, over 600 seniors and juniors from American Heritage Faculties had 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 Companies offered a crashed DUI automobile on campus for college students to watch real-life examples of those risks. Members of the Plantation Hearth Division extracted mannequins from the simulated automobile crash utilizing the jaws of life instruments whereas offering a story of the scene.
Notable executives from MADD, corresponding to Heather Geronemus, the founding father of Stroll Like MADD & MADD Sprint Fort Lauderdale, and Jennifer Walsh, the MADD South Florida space govt director, had been in attendance. A younger lady and sufferer named Bree Ann Marie Camacho shared her story and offered suggestions and methods on making knowledgeable selections. College students additionally heard impactful tales and phrases from Geronemus and Ross.
“We’re grateful to work with MADD to teach our college students and deliver consciousness to the hazards of impaired and harmful driving, particularly forward of particular celebrations corresponding to promenade and commencement,” says Dr. Doug Laurie, president of American Heritage Faculties. “We’re pleased with our college students who’re a part of the SADD Membership and helped deliver this impactful presentation to our college students.”
In South Florida, the native MADD affiliate’s annual Stroll Like MADD & MADD Sprint 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 a terrific honor to work with the SADD Membership and the workers at American Heritage Faculties to as soon as once more host MADD’s Energy of You(th) presentation on campus to teach college students on the tragedies that drunk driving causes,” Geronemus says. “Occasions corresponding to these increase consciousness and put us one step nearer to seeing a future with no extra victims of this one hundred pc preventable crime.”
