Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) (Grades 9 - 12)
SADD, Students Against Destructive Decisions, is a school-based organization dedicated to addressing the issues of underage drinking, impaired driving, drug use, and other destructive decisions and killers of young people.
SADD's mission is to provide students with the best prevention and intervention tools possible to deal with the serious issues young adults are facing today. Empowerment is the foundation of SADD. The idea of empowerment is to build students' confidence and ability to create changes and manage behavior in a way that results in healthy choices.
SADD promotes a "no use" message of alcohol and other drugs and encourages students not to participate in activities with destructive consequences.
The Prom Promise
One of the major events sponsored by SADD each year is the Prom Promise activity, featuring a large, three-screen presentation produced by Motivational Productions, Inc., a national company that creates multi-media shows for school groups, centering on responsibility and good decision-making. During the week of the Junior/Senior Prom, SADD promotes and sponsors the signing of the Nationwide Prom Promise, encouraging students to pledge their word to not use alcohol or drugs, especially during the Prom weekend.
The Prom Promise
I refuse to be a statistic.
- I refuse to live with the guilt of making a wrong decision, and refuse to wait until it is too late.
- I will not only live my life in the present, but will also live a life with hopes for the future.
- I will not let alcohol and drugs determine the outcome of my life, or the life of an innocent victim. Regardless of where I am from, who I am, and what I believe, my life is worth more than any destructive decision.
- I am willing to give up those selfish desires that destroy humanity, in an attempt to create a safe, sober and drug-free America.
- I will not wait until the prom to make this promise.
I Mean it.
I'm Keeping it.
National SADD weblink - http://www.sadd.org/
Sponsor: Susan Carden
