National Organizations for Youth Safety

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• National Organizations for Youth Safety
• YOUTH SAVING YOUTH

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The impact of NOYS is in the collaborative
efforts that are formed among the NOYS member
organizations.
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• In 2007, National Organizations for Youth Safety
  (NOYS) began the National Youth Traffic Safety
  Month campaign in conjunction with the United
  Nations Global Road Safety Week.
• Each May NOYS hopes to encourage teen-to-teen
  safe driving projects in advance of the deadly
  prom, graduation and summer driving seasons.
• In the first two years of the campaign, more than
  250 National Youth Traffic Safety Month teen-led
  projects were conducted nationwide.
• In both 2007 and 2008 the 50 top projects that
  were registered National Youth Traffic Safety
  Month projects received a 1,000 awards
• In 2009, our goal is to further increase
  visibility of National Youth Traffic Safety Month
  and increase the number of teens involved in the
  campaign.

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In the first two years of the campaign over
130,000 in awards were given to youth programs
to reward organizations for their youth traffic
safety projects sponsored by the Allstate
Insurance Co. (AIC) and The Allstate Foundation
respectively!
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NYTSM Hits the Big Screen in New York City!
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• NYTSM Focus on nationally syndicated Fox Mike and
  Juliet in the Morning!

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• In 2008 NOYS also introduced a new contest
  sponsored by The Allstate Foundation as part of
  National Youth Traffic Safety Month
• Act Out Loud Raising Voices for Safe Teen
  Driving
• A national competition to empower youth formed
  school teams to develop and implement youth
  traffic safety activism projects.

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• Online viral contest using youth friendly
  outreach including You-Tube youth team produced
  videos, online voting, and blogging.
• Prizes included
• 1,000 and a video camera for the top ten teams
• 10,000 to the first place team
• 5,000 to the second place team
• 3,000 to the third place team
• 5,000 award to national organization of the
  first place team

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• High School Musical Lucas Grabeel served as the
  spokesperson for Act Out Loud

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• First Place Team Bloomingdale High School
  Valrico, FL
• Bloomingdale High School encouraged safe teen
  driving by promoting their Buckle Up program
  through their student government.  The team
  filmed a short daily segment for their schools
  TV station promoting seatbelt use and defensive
  driving, as well as incorporating teen driving
  statistics and interviews from students about who
  wears seatbelts and why.  The team also created
  professional Buckle Up signs for the school
  street exits.
• View their video at http//www.youtube.com/watch?v
  iiFI6HXylm0

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• The Second Place team - Notre Dame Preparatory -
  Scottsdale, Arizona
• Notre Dame Preparatory spread the word about safe
  teen driving awareness via a number of different
  school activities, such as skits, videos, guest
  speakers to talk about risks teen drivers face, a
  school assembly, a mock car crash, contests
  between homerooms to get students to join
  keepthedrive.com and visuals around the school. 
  The team worked with the Scottsdale Police
  Department to make the mock car crash a more
  poignant experience for spectators.  They also
  planted 16 crosses in front of the school chapel,
  representing the 16 teens that die in car crashes
  every day.
• View their video online now at http//www.youtube.
  com/watch?v9v6x6KKuSAkhlen.

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• Third Place Team - Oxford Academy Sophomore Class
  Committee, Cypress, California
• The Oxford team advocated safe teen driving
  through many different methods.  The team gave
  presentations about teen driving statistics to
  local drivers education courses and health
  classes at school, hold a pep rally about
  National Youth Traffic Safety Month, wrote
  articles for the local newspapers, promoted their
  efforts on community boards in stores around the
  community and engaged fellow teen drivers through
  parking lot demonstrations and grassroots street
  activism.
• View their video online at http//www.youtube.com/
  watch?vMn6zwe98_pkhlen

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• Runner UP Bishop McNamara High School
  Forestville, MD
• Bishop McNamara High School (BMHS) has spent the
  last two years educating the community about safe
  teen driving. Their Web site www.teenroadskill.org
  documents their projects and progress. BMHS
  renewed their safe teen driving efforts through
  the Act Out Loud program by hosting a teen
  driving safety forum on April 26, as a service
  learning program to teach others how to launch
  safety programs in their own schools. The forum
  included workshops, presentations and an
  opportunity to plan an event for Mays National
  Youth Traffic Safety Month.
• View their video online at http//www.youtube.com/
  watch?viTSvKs4htWU.

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• Runner UP The Chelsea Team, Chelsea, Vermont
• The Chelsea Team, in partnership with the Orange
  County Sheriffs department, produced two short
  videos for the Orange County Sheriff departments
  web site. The team felt compelled to promote teen
  traffic safety after Vermont published its
  Strategic Highway Safety Plan, which emphasized
  the need to focus on teen driver crash rates and
  the root causes. The videos enforced seatbelt use
  and raised awareness about the most dangerous
  summer times and days for teen drivers in
  Vermont.
• View their video online at http//www.youtube.com/
  watch?vH_zbNWzLl3k.

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• Runner UP Dermott High School, Dermott, Arkansas
• Dermott High created a week of skits and
  activities during prom week to spread alcohol and
  drug related crash information to students. Each
  day focused on one teen driving related activity,
  including an Every 15 Minutes skit, a guest
  speaker and PowerPoint, an Arkansas state trooper
  presentation on drunk driving scenarios, MADD
  national Friday activities, and a mock crash with
  police, medical teams and Medlife participating.
• View their video online at http//www.youtube.com/
  watch?v9tOXUDaoXG4.

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• Runner UP Great Plains Wrestling Club, Kearney,
  Nebraska
• The Kearney Wrestling Club developed the Always
  Alert Always Alive program, taking place at the
  high school from April 20-30. The teams program
  aimed to wake up distracted teens and
  encouraged students to commit to alert, safe and
  responsible driving. Activities included
  displaying a crashed car in the school parking
  lot hosting a teen safety scavenger hunt and a
  community showing of the video SMASHED  Toxic
  Tales of Teens and Alcohol, followed by a panel
  discussion led by police, a state legislator, a
  funeral director, a teenager and a parent.
• View their video online at http//www.youtube.com/
  watch?v-BN6IZ0UTRMhlen.

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• Runner UP Okeechobee Crime Watch - Okeechobee,
  FL
• The Okeechobee Crime Watch group incorporated a
  variety of activities to support safe driving
  advocacy. The schools 11th and 12th graders were
  invited to participate in a simulated impaired
  driving course in the days before prom. The team
  also distributed Safe Drinking materials
  (pamphlets, stickers, flyers, etc.) and worked
  with local law enforcement, the Crime Watch Club
  and Okeechobee High School students to spread
  safe driving awareness.
• View their video online at http//www.youtube.com/
  watch?vztYTb8IcR-o.

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• Runner UP Richmond High School - Richmond,
  Indiana
• The Richmond High School team promoted safe teen
  driving by an aggressive Buckle Up campaign in
  its school and community after four local boys
  were in a car crash. In cooperation with a blood
  drive and with the help of the mayor,
  superintendent, student newspaper, and principal,
  the Buckle Up campaign conducted surveys about
  alcohol use, adults providing alcohol to minors,
  distracted driving, and seatbelt use. The team
  also placed a crashed car in front of the school
  and stenciled Buckle Up on the school parking
  lots.
• View their video online at http//www.youtube.com/
  watch?vRVe-QAvhlT4hlen.

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• Runner UP Wayne High School - Huber Heights,
  Ohio
• The Wayne High School team created a video to
  convince students not to drink and drive,
  especially after the prom. The video, titled
  After Prom, plays out a scenario of five
  friends at prom and the choices they make about
  drinking and driving.  It played at the beginning
  of the schools After Prom party. The team wanted
  to get the message across that you never know who
  you could hurt when you drive drunk driving
  drunk puts everyone at risk.
• View their video online at http//www.youtube.com/
  watch?vNsEd3uRNglMhlen.

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• DOT RURAL TRAFFIC SAFETY

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Make plans now to participate in National Youth
Traffic Safety Month 2009!
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Vision To be the premier national youth health
and safety coalition Mission The mission of NOYS
is to promote youth empowerment and leadership,
and build partnerships that save lives, prevent
injuries and enhance safe and healthy lifestyles
among all youth.