In the spring, one was given "Healthy Kids survey" Piedmont and Millennium high school students. Shockingly of self-reported students that 48% of Juniors had driven car, after she had drunk or was in a car from a friend, had been drinking.

Hoping to reverse the trends revealed in this survey, the California Highway patrol to schools travels as Piedmont provides powerful "every 15 minutes"-presentations. The presentations include a live staging of a fatal drunk driving crash, a memorial at the school the next day and a video presentation and discussion a few weeks later. According to the program Web site is the destination connection emotionally drunken driving with negative consequences go beyond "the intellectual statistics" which bombed for young people.

On 3 October this year police and fire departments responding real on the model crash one drunk teenage driver and his two passengers, and a different teenage driver, with a passenger. In the simulation, the drunk driver and one of his friends was unhurt, but the second passenger was killed when he flew through the windscreen. The other car's driver were seriously injured, but not survive.

The next day collected the whole school for a memorial service, the heavy on the eve of model demonstration home should go. The students were also informed that the drunk driver was sentenced to 26 years in prison.

In particular, the California Highway Patrol program is not all, and takes the opportunity, the teen drinking students and parents about the realities and driving habits speak to bring. Piedmont area a lively exchange, in which students parents was told that they feel she would call for trips home, if they believed, that they bring in trouble would not. Parents said they felt uneasy about the tolerance in their home or at any other time.

This reality puts parents in a difficult situation. They want children drinking everything to stop, but wants young people to fear, to summon help when they need it. How to prevent that illegal drinking and promote openness to, at the same time? Part of the program objective is the open those lines of discussion, expectations and follow better set.

Unfortunately the powerful program can run only in Piedmont every four years, the minimum required to ensure that all students have a chance to experience it. According to Millennium of main Ting Hsu Engelman, "it is an enormous amount of work, it is a huge resource." In fact, there is a scholarship for every school that want to use the program.

Although well, it seems there is little evidence available to verify their effectiveness. It is hoped that the message took high schools students in Piedmont and Millennium to the heart.

Photo credit: Kim Woods

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