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July-August 2016
Issue 32
In This Issue
Membership Drive
New Director
New Chapters
Teen Academy
2016 SADD Conference
Student Advisory Board
Chapter Registration
SADD STRONG
COPE Red Sand Project
Ideas? Questions? Concerns?
Contact
Harriett Southerland
919 807-4408
hsoutherland@ncsadd.org
Visit NC SADD. www.ncsadd.org
Facebook: ncsadd
Twitter: @SADDNC
SADD National
www.sadd.org
www.ncsadd.org
ALL ABOARD!
It’s a brand new year! Surely stu-dents and teachers alike had a won-derful summer and are glad to see each other again. We’re looking for-ward to an active and fruitful year.
Some chapters will start out the year with a strong membership, and oth-ers may start out with few members because of seniors who graduated last year. Whatever the situation, we’ve provided some membership drive activities you can do to get your chap-ter up and running.
 Put up posters about SADD around school to announce your meeting. Make them fun and easy to read at a glance. Students walk down the hall in a hur-ry, so make sure your poster jumps out at them. Offer food; this is often a big draw to get students to the meeting.
 Visit other classes, give out a SADD information sheet about what your SADD chapter does, and invite them to your meeting. Make the meeting sound fun and appealing. Provide a sign up sheet for each class.
 Make announcements about your meetings on the PA system. Since stu-dents often tune out announcements, be sure yours are clear, creative, and to the point. Follow up with posters announcing your meeting dates, times and locations.
 Put invitations to join SADD on the windshields of students' cars.
 Write an article for your school newsletter about SADD and its members, activities and goals.
 Put up a SADD bulletin board with posters, pictures, news clips, etc. about what SADD does.
Southeast Raleigh High School Advisor Phyllis Norfleet (2nd from left) and SADD students work the SADD membership table outside the school cafeteria. Great effort, Southeast. Go Bulldogs! 2
 Personally invite people to join.
 Do a skit or rap during lunch to let everyone know about SADD and invite them to a meeting.
 Be sure to reach out to a diverse group of stu-dents. Always remember that SADD is an inclu-sive organization. We can’t help students with al-cohol or other problems if we shut them out.
 Make sure that your meetings are fun, and make an extra effort to introduce everyone so that no one feels left out.
 Give everyone a job to do right away so they know that they are needed. Good luck! Building a strong chapter is a sign of good leadership.
ROLLING OUT THE WELCOME WAGON
Our office has a new home and a new direc-tor, Gale Wilkins. We welcome her to our SADD family. The stu-dents who participated in the Women and Girls Initiative at the Executive Mansion the last two years have already met her. In turn, Wilkins welcomes SADD with the following message:
New Chapters
Let’s all join together in a hearty “WELCOME!“ to the newest members of our SADD family:
Clyde Erwin High School SADD in Asheville (Buncombe County) is getting started under the leadership of English teacher Stephanie Day. We are excited about work-ing with Clyde Erwin SADD, and we’ll do all we can to help them be their best. Go Warriors!
Green Hope High School SADD in Cary (Wake County) is getting started due to the diligence of two students who contacted the state coordinator to say, “We’ve got an advisor, what do we do next?” With that level of com-mitment, this new chapter is bound to thrive. Green Hope SADD is under the leadership of Heather Hill, the autism support teacher and girls junior varsity soccer coach at Green Hope High. Go Falcons!
Reid Ross Classical High School SADD in Fayetteville (Cumberland County) was up and running by the beginning of school because of the diligent work of school counselor and chapter advisor, Rangel McLaurin. McLaurin worked with the state coordina-tor and a group of students over the summer so eve-rything would be in place when school started. Reid Ross SADD should be a success with such a dedi-cated advisor. Go Cougars!
TEEN ACADEMY GRADUATE
Student Advisory Board member Rosalyn Wilkinson of West Iredell High School in Statesville is a sum-mer graduate of the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office 2016 Teen Academy. The students went through a
Gale Wilkins
Executive Director
Rosalyn Wilkins (back row, 2nd from right) with fellow
Teen Academy graduates 3
series of trainings to learn more about challenging issues such as bullying, cyber crimes, peer pres-sure, social media, texting, and drugs. Not only did they learn a lot, the teens were able to form friend-ships with law enforcement that they say will last throughout their lives. Sherriff's Office deputies said they were blessed to spend time with these young people, and expect great things from them in the future. That is a sentiment with which NC SADD agrees wholeheartedly. Congratulations to Wil-kinson and her classmates for a job well done. To learn more about Iredell County’s Teen Academy, contact Capt. Randy Cass at 704-924-4035 or randy.cass@co.iredell.nc.us.
Join us November 18-20 for the 2016 Annual NC SADD Leadership Conference. The conference will be a three-day retreat at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center in Durham. The theme for the conference is the Olympics, and our slogan is “Safe. Sober. SADD.” Participants will receive tee shirts indica-tive of Olympic jerseys. Each school is asked to make a flag to represent their club at the opening ceremonies and throughout the conference. We will have the Olympic Games on Friday night, and there will be medals for the winners!
Although we’ll have lots of fun at the conference, you’ll also learn effective, science-based methods of pre-vention, advocacy, and making a positive difference in your schools. We are excited to have Rick Birt, Execu-tive Vice President of SADD, Inc. at our conference this year. There will be expert speakers on safety and prevention, and interesting, interactive workshops on traffic safety, pregnancy prevention, alcohol, tobacco and other drug use, teen dating abuse, and body image. There will also be enrichment opportunities for advi-sors.
SADD chapters that attend the conference each year report improvements at their schools such as higher seat belt use by students and fewer instances of bullying and violence. It is especially important to attend the conference if you have a new chapter. It will help you get started in the right direction. Students will have the opportunity to interact with and learn from their counterparts across the state, and new advisors will have the opportunity to learn from the veterans. Veteran advisors will be inspired to hold on for another year!
If you haven’t already started fundraising to sponsor your trip to the conference, get busy! You don’t want lack of funds to keep your chapter from this incredible experience. You’d be surprised at the number of businesses or agencies what would jump at the opportunity to sponsor you if they knew the positive difference your stu-dents are trying to make. You will receive detailed conference information and the registration packet shortly. Conference details will also be posted on our website at www.ncsadd.org. See you in November!
SADD Olympic Games 2016
Safe. Sober. SADD. 4
MEET OUR NEW STUDENT ADVISORY BOARD
ARE YOU BONO FIDE?
While SADD charges no dues or membership fees, the national office does require accurate, current in-formation about our chapters in order to share im-portant news and opportunities with you. Chapters are required to renew their registration at the start of each school year. Your registration provides critical data about the SADD network that helps us draw at-tention to the issues we care about and supports our requests for funding.
When you register or update your information, the na-tional office will email you a SADD Chapter Certificate for the current year. You will also receive lots of start up materials and other important information to get your chapter ready for the school year. Follow the step-by-step guide to register at:
http://sadd.force.com/registration.
Please take the time to complete this important step.
There is strength in numbers. To demonstrate our im-pact as SADD Nation, all chapters will conduct certain campaigns and activities at the same time of year; we call that being SADD STRONG! The SADD national office and its partners have developed a collection of three programs that target SADD’s core issue areas: traffic safety, substance abuse, and personal health and safety. Implementing these programs will quality your chapter for the WE ARE SADD STRONG Achievement and Recognition Program!
 October - Rock the Belt, in conjunction with National Teen Driver Safety Week
 February - SADD Shines Week, held to cele-brate SADD students and promote personal health and safety
 April - Is It Worth The Risk?, in conjunction with Alcohol Awareness Month
All SADD STRONG programs are composed of an activity guide and media templates. The activity guides target our three core constituencies: schools, parents and communities.
(Front row, l-r) Rosalyn Wilkinson, Tamia Lipscomb, Alexis Wil-liams, Katelynn May and Cherish Matson; (Back row, l-r) Gavin Brundidge and Tre’Von Raye; (Not pictured) Dontavian Smith 5
RED SAND AT WILLIAM PEACE UNIVERSITY
Kiricka Yarbough-Smith, Project COPE administrator, reports that Project COPE interns recently assisted William Peace University in Raleigh with a Red Sand Project. Over 100 students and staff members came out to help spread awareness about human trafficking by finding and filling cracks in the sidewalk with red sand. The Red Sand Project works to bring aware-ness about populations that are typically overlooked (refugees, immigrants and girls), especially since these populations are at the highest risk of being ex-ploited for the gain of others. If you would like more information about COPE or want to stage a Red Sand Project, visit Project Cope.
The project table with packages of red sand
Great work, ladies.
Sending a Message
BACK TO SCHOOL ELECTRICAL SAFETY DON’TS AND DO’S
Now that school is back in session, here are some useful (and amusing) electrical safety tips from Duke En-ergy for when you're plugging in that laptop, toasting a healthy breakfast, or blowing out your hair for the homecoming dance.
 DON'T overload an outlet or power strip. DO overload on pizza during all-night study sessions.
 DON'T put your fingers in an electrical outlet. DO keep your nose buried in textbooks.
 DON'T pull an extension cord from far away. DO pull an all-nigther if you forgot about the big test.
 DON'T forget to keep plug-in electronics away from the shower. DO remember to wash behind your ears. 6