Register Your Chapter!
This is a reminder that all
chapters are asked to register with the national office AND RENEW your registration each year!
Registration is
FREE - there are never any membership dues or fees for chapters.
At the
national office, we want to make sure you're receiving important information,
and the advisor's contact info, or even the school address may
change!
Registration takes just a few minutes and can be done on the SADD
Web site - just click here.
As a
special bonus, when you register or renew your chapter's registration, you'll
receive an attractive membership certificate and a free gift - currently it's a
special SADD poster about leadership.
Please register or renew your
registration if it's been more than a year since you did so!
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Greetings!
I hope that this email finds you well and enjoying the
beginning of the summer. I am so excited for the summer conference
and hope to see many of you there. For those of you who do not
know me, I am Timi LaTondress, a member of the executive committee for the SADD
National Student Leadership Council (SLC). I have served on the
SLC for the past two years and have loved every minute of it. I
live at home with my parents and twelve year old sister Danielle.
I just finished my freshman year at the University of Louisville and am
currently waiting to be accepted into a Radiography Technical program.
This summer I'm working at a local hospital in the x-ray
department.
Now that I have told you a bit about myself, let me introduce
this newsletter. The SLC and SADD National staff decided that
there needs to be better communication between the national organization and
local chapters. This electronic newsletter is one important step
towards that goal and will be sent out to all SADD students and advisors (for
whom we have e-mail addresses) every other month during the school year - with
the latest exciting news about SADD and great opportunities for your
chapter!
We need some help with this newsletter, though.
This is where you come in! Use the link at the bottom of
this e-mail to forward it on to your friends, and encourage them to sign up to
receive it using the button on the left below or on the SADD Web site. At a
minimum, we want all chapter officers to be signed up for this newsletter!
We also want to hear what your chapters are doing. If you
had a successful activity and/or got some media attention, let us know so we can
feature your story! Send information to info@sadd.org, fax to 508-481-5759, or call
877-SADD-INC.
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We Need a
Name!
This newsletter is currently unnamed, and we need YOUR help!
We're looking for a fun, catchy name that people will remember. It can have
"SADD" in the name ("SADDitudes" and "SADDvisory" were two names we considered),
or it can be more general (such as "The Grapevine").
 As a special incentive, whoever
suggests the name that's chosen will receive a prize of $100! Send your ideas
to Chris Egan, SADD National's Director of Field Services, at cegan@sadd.org. Make sure
to include your name and address. There's no limit on the number of names you
can suggest. We look forward to getting some great entries!
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Now Available - SADD
Manual!
 SADD has a brand-new
manual available for chapters! Don't miss this incredibly valuable resource.
The 450-page manual is packed with activity ideas, detailed information and
stats on issues such as alcohol and other drugs, and practical advice about
running your chapter. This is a must-have for every successful SADD
chapter!
The manual is available for just $64.95 plus shipping from the
SADD Store. Click
here to order yours today!
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SADD at the World Youth
Assembly in Geneva!
 SADD Student of the Year
Daniel Vocelle and former Student of the Year Jessica Billings, along with
BACCHUS Network student Kyle Ali were chosen through NOYS to represent the
United States at the first World Youth Assembly for Road Safety at the United
Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
In a whirlwind trip, the students
traveled to Washington to receive a briefing from the State Department and then
were off to Geneva, where they met other youth ambassadors from across the
world. Together they adopted a "Youth Declaration for Road Safety" to garner
attention and spur action around the world and participated in working groups to
devise ways to implement the declaration in their home countries.
Daniel,
Jessica, and Kyle chronicled their experience in a daily blog posted on a Web
site that Kyle created. Click
here to read their thoughts about participating in this momentous
occasion.
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UR the Spokesperson
Update
 SADD has partnered with
the Ad Council in the "UR the Spokesperson" campaign against reckless driving.
The campaign encourages teens to "Speak Up" when they are passengers to their
friends who are driving recklessly. Research shows that speaking up really
makes a difference!
Look for the PSAs on television, and stay tuned for
some more exciting materials. SADD is developing activities and programs for
school use that will be posted on our Web site (and perhaps available on CD-ROM)
soon. Click
here to visit the UR the Spokesperson Web site!
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You Can Get Cash for Your
Bash!
 I'm Andrew
Karasik, SADD National SLC member for 2006-2007, and it is my sincere pleasure
to be writing to you all in the first-ever SADD student/advisor
e-newsletter. This newsletter is a great step in bringing together
members of SADD and taking the lines of communication to the next
level.
One of my
greatest opportunities as a member of the SLC was to appear on CN8 (a Comcast
regional cable channel in the Northeast) and discuss a new program that SADD has
developed in partnership with Boston Market, the "Time for Your School"
fundraising program.
 "Time for Your School"
offers you "cash for your bash," so that you can afford to put on the coolest
safe celebrations your school has ever seen. For years, SADD has
offered tips and information about safe celebrations that chapters can hold
after events like prom and graduation when fatalities from destructive decisions
increase greatly. Now, the money that you need for your safe
celebrations is right at your fingertips!
The concept is simple. SADD chapters
partner with a local Boston Market restaurant and on a specific night up to 40
percent of the store's sales are donated to the school or the chapter.
The "Time for Your School" program isn't restricted to safe celebrations
- your SADD chapter can use the money for any purpose related to SADD
programming.
For more
information, click here or visit the
Time for Your School Myspace page!
It has been a pleasure
serving on the SLC this past year and I wish you all the best in your prevention
endeavors!
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SADD Store Offers Great
Merchandise!
 Many of you may not be
aware that SADD National has a store featuring great SADD-branded products -
from t-shirts and clothing to fun novelties and giveaways you can use to promote
SADD! You can even order SADD products customized with your chapter
name!
Be sure to check out the SADD Store at www.saddstore.org or
call toll-free at 1-800-394-0090. For those of you who have ordered in the
past, note that the SADD Store has a new phone number. Please call or order
online rather than using e-mails or mailed forms.
You can even help
SADD in your state if you have an active state coordinator. Just ask your state
coordinator for a special code and use the code when you order, and your state
will receive a percentage of your purchase to support your state conference and
other programming! If you're in a state without a state coordinator, don't
worry - your purchase without a code will help fund SADD National in our efforts
to establish a state coordinator in every state!
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Chapter Spotlight - Nanuet
High School SADD
In each newsletter we'll feature one chapter in
this section. This time, we're recognizing the SADD chapter at Nanuet High
School in Nanuet, New York.
In our spring print newsletter, Decisions, we talked about how chapters were
engaging in community service (which can actually help in recruiting new
members), and we described one particular community service opportunity -
holding a lemonade stand for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF).
ALSF is a foundation that raises money to work on pediatric cancer cures
and quality of life improvements for patients. It was started by Alex Scott, a
pediatric cancer patient who held a lemonade stand in her front yard. Over the
years, that one stand has grown into an organization that raises millions of
dollars - much of it through lemonade stands. For more information, visit www.alexslemonade.org.
 Nanuet High School SADD
held a stand at their school, and Advisor Judy Ebeling reports that they raised
$350 for ALSF! We send our congrats to Nanuet SADD - and our thanks for the
great pictures! If you have news to report, send it to info@sadd.org or mail to us
at the address at the bottom of this e-mail. Include pictures if you can, and
you might be featured in the Decisions
newsletter "Chapter Chatter" or in this newsletter's "Chapter
Spotlight!"
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SADD & Liberty Mutual
Group
 SADD has worked with Liberty
Mutual Group for many years on programs and research. We're proud to designate
them as our National Insurance
Sponsor.
Last year, Liberty Mutual insurance agents throughout the
United States were encouraged to work with and support local SADD chapters. If
there is a Liberty Mutual office in your area, you may want to approach them and
see if they will sponsor an event or help with promotion, or if they have a
project SADD could join as a partner on.
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On behalf of the SADD National Staff and the
SLC, we want to say "Thanks so much" for all you do for SADD. The Field
Services Department is here to provide help and support to chapters, especially
those in states without state coordinators. Just call 877-SADD-INC or e-mail
cegan@sadd.org or
kfrench@sadd.org for
service.
Please spread the word about this newsletter! You'll soon be
able to sign up to receive it on the www.sadd.org Web
site, and we'd like to see as many students and advisors as possible sign up to
receive it. It will be published every other month during the school year, with
the next issue scheduled for September 2007.
If you received this
newsletter and are no longer connected to SADD, please forward it to the new
advisor if possible. You can use the SafeUnsubscribe link below to remove your
name from our list if you no longer want to receive e-mails from
us.
Thanks again for all you do for SADD!
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Sincerely,
Christopher Egan, Director of Field Services
Kristin French, Assistant Director of Field Services
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