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Club Officer Training: Boot Camp
Rise Up. Reset. Revolutionize
Youth Highway Safety
The Mississippi Youth
Highway Safety Programs
(MYHSP) Student
Advisory Board (SAB) is
ready to put boots on the
ground to end youth
highway crashes as the
number one killer of
American teens. On
September 18, 2013, the
MYHSP will host the
annual, one-day Club
Officer Training
conference at the Hinds
Community College Clyde
Muse Center for school
club or community group
officers. The conference
will provide the
motivation and resources
to kick start what the
SAB consider not just a
moment in Mississippi
highway safety history,
but a movement. This
movement to end highway
crashes will emphasize the
importance of peer-to-peer
support to increase seat belt
usage and decrease impaired
driving. Keynote speaker,
Rashad Jones, will present
his powerful leadership
message in the morning and
break out sessions will follow.
These workshops include the
following topics and
activities: Rock the Belt,
Walk the Line, State
Farm’s Celebrate My Drive, Distracted
Driving, Youth Highway
Safety Activities, and
Professional and Social
Media. The day will
include education, fun,
entertainment, and
invaluable toolkits and
resources that will be
taken into schools all
over the state by youth
club officers who are
ready to rise up, restart,
and revolutionize youth
highway safety in
Mississippi.
Meet the New SAB 2
Celebrate My
Drive, and FORD
DSFL
3
Sizzling Seat Belt
Safety Camps
4
MYHSP Contests 5
SADD 6
Back to School
Posters
7
AT&T: It Can Wait
and Contact Info.
8
May-August 2013
Volume 1, Issue 2
This program is funded by monies made available by NHTSA and is a partnership between the Mississippi Office of Highway Safety and DREAM, Inc.
Top 5 Teen Driving
Issues SAB Plan to
Address:
Speeding
Impaired Driving
Seat Belt Usage
Distracted Driving
Nighttime Driving
These are the top 5 teen driving issues
the Student Advisory Board will take on
to combat youth highway fatalities. Ac-
cording to the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA), these
are main reasons American teens are
crashing.
Skylar A.—Louisville High School
Hannah B.—Brandon High School
Sammie C.—Raymond High School
Tamaria C.—Noxubee High School
Javarcia I.—Clinton High School
Tyler G.—Yazoo County High School
Melanie G.— Murrah High School
Trevor H.—Greene County High
Antoniya H.—McLaurin High School
Emmanuel H.—MS School of Arts
Robert H.—Yazoo County High School
Meet the Student Advisory Board:
The Mississippi Youth Highway Safety
Programs staff are honored and
excited to introduce the 2013-2014
Student Advisory Board (SAB). Each
youth submitted an application with a
three-page essay describing the
highway safety issues they see most in
their communities and schools and how
they plan to become a part of the
solution. The 28 teens had discovered
SAB through multiple venues like Teens
on the Move, community projects,
former SAB members, and
presentations given by Tawni Basden,
Director, Alex Cantrell, Coordinator,
and De’Marco Fomby, Specialist. The
staff was also able to recruit members
in high risk areas for youth fatality
crashes. MYHSP has
covered the state from
Tunica to Gulfport, and
everywhere in between to
find the teenagers who
best exemplify the qualities
of leadership and teamwork
needed to save the lives of
Mississippi youth on the
roads. The former and
current SAB were also
given
a
voice
on
who they felt could carry on their
legacy of decreasing youth crash
fatalities. A phone interview was then
conducted by staff to better
determine the personalities and
commitment the youth would offer to
the team. MYHSP staff could not be
more pleased with the bright and
energetic students that have been
chosen. The SAB meets ten months a
year, for a whole weekend to plan two
major conferences and make a change
in their communities.
2013-2014 Mississippi
Student Advisory Board
“I want to start the path of a
powerful journey changing my
peer’s driving habits.”
- SAB member
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This program is funded by monies made available by NHTSA and is a partnership between the Mississippi Office of Highway Safety and DREAM, Inc.
Aahliya J.— Neshoba Central High
Keara J.—Rosa Fort High School
Libby L.—Philadelphia High School
Kent M.— Noxubee County High
Kelsey M.—Terry High School
Reagan N.— Biloxi High School
Tabitha P.—Pelahatchie High School
Philip R.—St. Patrick Catholic High
Avneet S.—Clinton High School
Marion S. Noxubee High School
Maggie S.—Hancock High School
Keaton T.—Choctaw Central High School
Kensey T.—Brandon High School
Alex W.—Richland High School
Samantha W.—Louisville High School
Bryanna Y.—Clinton High School
Logan Y.— Greene County High School
DREAM, Inc., in collaboration with the Mississippi
Office of Highway Safety, will host a highway
safety day on October 22, 2013 featuring
components of the Ford Driving Skills for
Life (DSFL) program. Mississippi is one of
five states awarded $20,000 in grant funding
from Ford DSFL. Mississippi Youth Highway
Safety Programs will host the event at the
Mississippi Forestry and Agriculture Museum
for 100 students brought in from 4 schools
chosen due to their high risk status for
youth crash fatalities. Students will rotate
through multiple highway safety-centered
activities which will include a mock crash,
Rock the Belt, impaired driving obstacle
course, and a Ford Driving Skills for Life
game show.
State Farm Celebrate My Drive
Celebrate My Drive® is a community
celebration of safe driving habits.
It emphasizes the
positives of safe choices
behind the wheel, as
teens celebrate the
freedom that comes with
the rite of passage of
getting a driver’s license.
It is also a chance for
your high school to win
money! Or maybe even a
grand prize concert for
your school by Kelly Clarkson!! So far
there are over 1900 high schools
registered. Is yours one of them?
Learn more at
www.celebratemydrive.com!
Volume 1, Issue 2 Page 3
This program is funded by monies made available by NHTSA and is a partnership between the Mississippi Office of Highway Safety and DREAM, Inc.
JPD officer Tonia Louisville
teach the youth of the
Capitol Street Boys and
Girls club the importance
of seat belt safety.
Hot, fun, poolside, carefree, lazy. All words that most
teens would use to describe a typical Mississippi summer.
What about dangerous, fatal, or destructive? These are
adjectives we'd like to eliminate from a Mississippi
summer vocabulary, but with warm weather comes the
deadliest season for teen drivers. That is why the
Mississippi Youth Highway Safety Programs (MYHSP)
staff hit the pavement with plenty of activities planned
to combat this epidemic. Tawni Basden, Youth Programs
Director, and De'Marco Fomby, Youth Seat Belt
Specialist, conducted Summer Sizzlin' Seat Belt Safety
Camps in multiple Boys and Girls Clubs located around the
state. Tawni
and De'Marco
partnered with
several
organizations
such as MDOT
and other local
state agencies
to provide
education
coupled with
fun and food. These camps stressed the importance of
wearing your seatbelt with emphasis on wearing it
correctly EVERYTIME! They also focused on the
importance of everyone in the vehicle being buckled up
to prevent the possibility of an individual being ejected
from the vehicle or causing harm to others in the
vehicle.
Pictured above: Anthony Outten, Director of Forest
Heights Girls and Boys Club, played our crash victim
who didn’t wear a seat belt for our mock crash.
Summer Sizzles with Seat Belt Safety Camps
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Christy Milbourne and Jonathan
Colwell of MDOT conduct their
“Rover Roller” presentation to
Youth at the Northside Boys and
Girls Club in Tupelo.
The Youth of the
Hattiesburg Boys and Girls
Club pledged to wear their
seatbelts EVERYTIME.
Sizzling Camp Locations and Photos
This program is funded by monies made available by NHTSA and is a partnership between the Mississippi Office of Highway Safety and DREAM, Inc.
MYHSP has two competitions
they would love for every
youth to participate in that
are as easy as click it, snap it,
and hashtag it! Love rockin’
the belt? Love sober fun in
your community? Love social
media? Then this is
definitely the opportunity
for you.
Pictured Right: Jason B. #RTB
#RocktheBelt @ms_youthhwysafety
Pictured above: Keara J.
posts: #sobersnapshot
#bandpractice
@ms_youthhwysafety
@ms_youthhwysafety
Volume 1, Issue 2 Page 5
Contest 1: #RTB #RocktheBelt
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!
Contest 2: #sobersnapshot
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 or 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!
#SoberSnapshots
Pictured above: Samantha W. posted:
#sobersnapshot #sobersonic @ms_youthhwysafety
This program is funded by monies made available by NHTSA and is a partnership between the Mississippi Office of Highway Safety and DREAM, Inc.
SADD is coordinated from the national
office in Maine. They have a wealth of
information for chapters:
How to start a chapter
Fundraising ideas
Calendar of events to use or change
Statistics
Campaigns and Activities
SADD Store and more
Each year, a SADD chapter has to
re-register to allow a chapter to update
the membership and sponsor
information. To register your chapter go
to www.sadd.org.
For SADD Sponsors:
State Farm Insurance Agency has
provided a grant to DREAM, Inc. to host
regional SADD Chapter Sponsor Training
opportunities. We are looking at hosting
trainings in October on the
Coast, Hattiesburg, Jackson
area, Greenwood and Tupelo, Mississippi.
If you would like to attend a two-hour
workshop, after school from 4-6 p.m. on
strengthening your SADD Chapter, earn
resources for your chapter and network
with other chapters, reserve your spot
today!!
For Mississippi youth conferences,
materials and training contact the
Mississippi SADD State Coordinator,
Tawni Basden: 601.933.9197 or
SADD
Speaks is
an
opportunity
for
selected SADD students to gain valuable
skills and assist the national
organization through a special advocacy
training institute. The goal of SADD
Speaks is to equip, train, and empower a
group of teen leaders in advocacy,
leadership, and the public policy
process around traffic safety.
SADD Speaks delegates will
lead the national organization in
its advocacy efforts, on Capitol
Hill, and before their own state and local
governments. These student leaders will a
positive and lasting effect on public policy,
demonstrating the power of America’s
young people to speak persuasively on an
issue that is critically important to their
generation.
Pictured on right, from left to right:
De’Marco Fomby, Alex Cantrell,
Tawni Basden and Glenda Crump, CEO
of DREAM, Inc. represent
Mississippi at the SADD National
Conference in Orlando, Florida in
June 2013.
SADD Resources:
Are you ready for a new SADDtastic year!?!
Would you like to start a SADD Chapter??
To register your SADD Chapter, visit www.sadd.org.
Each chapter must register every year to update chapter
information. To
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This program is funded by monies made available by NHTSA and is a partnership between the Mississippi Office of Highway Safety and DREAM, Inc.
Pictured above is Mel Groves, a
chosen SADD Speaks leader of MS,
with Penny Wells, CEO of SADD.
It’s that time again. Friday night football
games. Dance team practice. New band
music to learn. Late night studying.
Cafeteria lunches. School is back in
session and students have A LOT on their
minds. Make sure that rockin’ the seat
belt is at the top of the list by providing
our Back to School seat belt posters at
your local school or community location.
Contact below for more information.
De’Marco Fomby: 601.933.9164
Back to School
Volume 1, Issue 2
This program is funded by monies made available by NHTSA and is a partnership between the Mississippi Office of Highway Safety and DREAM, Inc.
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.
to texting and driving, It Can
Wait®. AT&T ‘s website provides
two great actions a driver can
take to keep their focus on their
road and away from their
phone. AT&T DriveMode is an
app that will automatically
send a customizable
auto-reply message to
incoming texts letting your
friends know you’re behind
the wheel and will reply when
it’s safe. AT&T also provides
the It Can Wait simulator, a
virtual reality that
demonstrates the dangers of
texting while driving.
Did you know that those who
send text messages while driving
are 23 times more likely to be in
a crash? Take out your wireless
device. Read the last text
message you sent or received
aloud. Would reading or
responding to that text message
from behind the wheel be worth
the risk of getting into a car
crash -- or worse? AT&T’s goal
is to educate all wireless users
on the risks of texting while
driving. AT&T is committed to
putting an end to this dangerous
behavior and our message is
simple, yet vital: When it comes
Learn more and take the pledge
to not text and drive at
www.itcanwait.com.
DREAM, Inc.
Tawni Basden: 601-933-9197
Alex Cantrell: 601-933-9191
De’Marco Fomby: 601-933-
9164
http://www.facebook.com/MississippiYout
hHighwaySafetyPrograms
AT&T It Can Wait
Rock the Belt, Walk
the Line, Save a Life
This program is funded by monies made available by NHTSA and is a partnership between the Mississippi Office of Highway Safety and DREAM, Inc.