![]() ![]() ![]() SADD was founded in 1981 as Students Against Driving Drunk and currently sponsors chapters called Students Against Destructive Decisions. Ultimately, SADD has the potential to lead the youth culture into an era in which young people passionately embrace their ability and desire to nurture and protect their minds, bodies, spirits, and futures. The SADD National Office strives to support its community chapters and develops programming grounded in the most up-to-date concepts, information, and strategies from research and practice. Using students themselves as primary agents and meaningful contributors, SADD chapters have become an efficient and effective avenue for quality programming to be implemented in thousands of schools and communities across the country. ![]() SADD chapters serve as a direct link to the heart of a school system and the community. With its expansion of focus to include destructive decisions outside of solely drinking and driving, SADD has become the premier youth-based education and prevention organization in America and maintains the ability to play a leading role in effective, evidence-based prevention programming. Substance abuse, violence, suicide, negative influences on body image, and glorification of lowered value standards are threats to teens’ well-being. In every community, the world of teenagers becomes more and more complex. Fasig & Brooks is proud to partner with SADD to bring Renee and Eric to Leon County and empower our Leon teens with Renee and Eric’s presentation.Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) was founded on the simple philosophy that young people, empowered to help each other, are the most effective force in prevention.įor more than a quarter-century, SADD has been recognized as a national leader in alcohol and drug education and prevention. Whenever they present, there is always a long line of people who stay afterwards just to thank them and to share their promise of never driving while impaired.įlorida SADD is funded by a grant. Matthew West, a popular Christian performer, was so moved that he wrote a song about them called Forgiveness. Their presentation is so powerful that they have been recognized on the national CBS Evening News and will soon appear on the Katie Couric show. For more information, go to the Meagan Napier webpage. Through an amazing leap of forgiveness, Renee successfully had Eric’s prison sentence reduced and they began speaking in schools about their experience. When Eric was a young man, he made the tragic mistake of driving while impaired and killed Renee’s daughter, Meagan in a car crash. Because of the support of, we will bring in Renee Napier and Eric Smallridge to share their amazing story at each of these schools. We currently have SADD chapters at Chiles, Godby, and Florida A&M University Developmental Research School. Here in Leon County, we are proud to partner with Fasig & Brooks. In 1997, in response to requests from SADD students themselves, SADD expanded its mission and name, and now chapters are called Students Against Destructive Decisions. SADD’s success demonstrates that students everywhere are taking the lead in reducing deaths on the road. SADD’s philosophy is: If the problem is mine, the solution also begins with me. ![]() SADD promotes a “No-Use” message – no alcohol, tobacco, or illegal substances – through positive peer pressure, support, and activism. The purpose of Florida SADD is to assist and encourage middle and high school students to live safe, healthy, and substance-free lifestyles by creating chapters in their schools that support and promote positive decision-making. Florida SADD emphasizes traffic safety because traffic crashes are the # 1 cause of death for teenagers in America. Florida SADD is dedicated to educating students, parents, and others in the community concerning the problems of underage drinking, impaired driving, seatbelt usage, driver training, speeding, and red light running. ![]()
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