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Southern School of Engineering Plans Teen Safe Driving Activities
RALEIGH, N.C., (December 17, 2010) –– Thanks to the Allstate Foundation, Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE), Inc. presented a grant to Southern School of Engineering (Durham, NC) to increase youth safety and promote teen safe driving. Teen safe driving awareness campaigns are being conducted during key times of the year including holidays, Teen Safe Driving Month (May), prom, and graduation.
The Southern School of Engineering SAVE Chapter’s plans for the 2010-2011 school year include creating a PowerPoint presentation with a synopsis of SAVE and an emphasis on Teen Safe Driving to present to their student body, faculty and parents. Other plans include hosting a Teen Safe Driving Rally and holding a Teen Safe Driving poster contest. They will design and conduct a presentation at a PTA meeting and distribute brochures and announcements regarding their chapter’s forthcoming events. In addition, the chapter will also ask the school journalism class to include their planned Teen Safe Driving activities for National Youth Violence Prevention Week and National Youth Traffic Safety Month in the school’s newsletter. The SAVE Advisor at Southern School of Engineering is Minnie Harrington.
With support from Allstate agents and employee volunteers, SAVE chapters will be able to provide leadership in their schools and communities to ensure that all students will be encouraged and empowered with healthy life skills while engaging in educational activities and opportunities to promote teen safe driving and youth safety.
SAVE is a peer-to-peer organization that focuses on the power of positive peer influences. According to a recent Allstate Foundation survey, Shifting Teen Attitudes: The State of Teen Driving 2009, peers are a major influence on teens – both positive and negative. Some of the concerning statistics that SAVE chapters will address include:
• Eighty-
• Nearly half (48 percent) of girls admit they are likely to speed more than 10 mph over the limit, versus 36 percent of boys.
• Seventy-
“This generous grant from The Allstate Foundation will assist students in finding real solutions to the issues of teen safe driving that they face each day,” stated SAVE’s executive director, Carleen Wray.
Previous assistance from The Allstate Foundation has benefited SAVE schools in North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Nevada, Michigan, Minnesota, Texas, Oklahoma, Utah, Wisconsin, California, Colorado, and Ohio.
“By empowering teens to become smart driving activists in their schools and communities, we hope to reverse the staggering statistics,”
About the National Association of Students Against Violence Everywhere:
SAVE started at West Charlotte High School in Charlotte, N.C. in 1989 following the tragic death of a student who was trying to break up a fight at an off-campus party. Students met first to console each other, then as an organization to promote violence prevention and to work together to prevent future incidents from occurring. SAVE provides education about the effects and consequences of violence and helps provide safe activities for students, parents and communities. For more information on SAVE or starting a SAVE chapter, visit www.nationalsave.org, or contact SAVE at (866) 343-SAVE to receive free start-up materials and guidance.
About The Allstate Foundation:
Established in 1952, The Allstate Foundation is an independent, charitable organization made possible by subsidiaries of The Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL). Allstate and The Allstate Foundation sponsor community initiatives to promote safe and vital communities;
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Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE), Inc. is a nonprofit organization striving to decrease violence in our schools and communities by promoting student involvement, education and service opportunities to provide safer environments for learning.
