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Issue: # 200828 December 5, 2008
Click It--Don't Risk It Chronicle
In This Issue
Come Home Safe!
Act Out Loud!
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Greetings!
 
Add icy roads and lots of deer to your normal traffic hazards and safety belts become even more important.  Thanks to each of you for the work you do to make sure all Nebraskans buckle up every trip, every time!

Come Home Safe!
 
Organizers and students at Mead High School were delighted with the $1000 grand prize resulting from the Come Home Safe drawing.  Mead High School's name was drawn from all of the participants in the Come Home Safe project, which has come to the end for 2008.   Burwell and Maywood High Schools both were drawn for second place prizes of $500 each.  
CHS Mead winner 
Buckling percentages reported at high schools throughout the state were anywhere from 24% to 97%.  While this represents a very wide swing in safety belt usage among teens, the Come Home Safe project certainly helped increase that percentage.  Thanks to all of you who helped with this project and made sure that your local high school participated.  
Act Out Loud!
 
Teen-led groups are eligible to receive $1,000 from the Allstate Foundation for efforts to reduce teen driving crashes in their communities and $10,000 for the top youth traffic safety project submitted.
act out loud
The National Organization for Youth Safety (NOYS) is once again hosting  National Youth Traffic Safety Month in May.  In support of youth safety and as an incentive for youth to get involved, the Allstate Foundation is awarding $1,000 to 50 local youth organizations.  Projects must be developed and implemented by youth, and support and promote youth traffic safety.  In addition,the Allstate Foundation is again sponsoring the
Act Out Loud contest.  Act Out Loud is a contest which will award $10,000 for the top student-led youth traffic safety activism project.

Check out this website, and enter now! 
The "Click It Chronicle," our Click It Campaign e-letter, published whenever there is news, is available to all those interested in increasing safety belt usage.  Please share this information freely. Take the information, copy to friends, businesses and organizations with the same concerns.  Using the information provided will help reduce the needless fatalities and injuries on our highways and the associated costs. To subscribe to this e-letter, join the coalition, or be removed from the list, contact the Click It Team at cidri@safenebraska.org.