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The Arrive Alive Campaign is aimed at mostly middle school student. The goal of the campaign is to reach and instill these practices in the students before they begin driving and peer pressure sets in. In order to really impact them I think it would be effective to hold week long “Spirit Weeks” to implement car and seatbelt safety. These spirit weeks would include educational assemblies that would consist of quest speakers, educational videos and giveaways such as Arrive Alive bracelets or T-shirts donated by the Missouri Collation for Roadway Safety. The spirit week would also include a fun and educating activity everyday that would get all students involved and at the same time teach them about car safety.
On the first day of the week would be the opening assembly when you would inform the children of the week to come. It would be an ideal time to hand out bracelets and let them wear them throughout the week.
The second day would be signing of the pledge cards that are attainable through the Missouri Collation of Roadway Safety web site. The cards simply state that the signer pledges to wear their seatbelt before driving in a car and will make it mandatory for all passengers.
On the third day of the spirit week members of the Arrive Alive team would stand outside in the parking lot and hand out smarties candy to those who wore their seatbelts and dum dum suckers to those who forgot and remind them to buckle up. The dum dum suckers would have a note on them also reminding them.
The forth day of the campaign would involve the whole school students and teachers alike. This activity is called Dec-Your-Doors. Each classroom will be given a box of supplies and rolls of papers and encouraged to decorate their door showing how they practice car and seatbelt safety. The doors will be judged and the winning classroom from each grade will be awarded prizes at the grand finale assembly.
The last day of the campaign will be the grand finale assembly. Our schools are spilt up very strange and the Middle school is 5th-8th grade. Considering the significant emotional and mental differences between the ages we will hold two separate assemblies, one for 5th-6th and another for 7th-8th.
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| Started On: | We chose our toopic and began planning the process in September 2006 | Ended On: | Janurary 2007 was when we held our Arrive Alive Saftey Week |
| People Involved: | There were numerous people invloved with the campaign. Four people went around and talked to busniess and resurants about our cause, six of us stood out on the parking lot handing out smarties and dum dums, twelve were at the opening assembly handing out bracelets and brochures, there were five people that helped make posters, two that helped organize the supplies for the contest, three others helped cut and distribute the pledge cards, and the whole class was invloved with choosing the winning door dor the Dec-Your-Door contest. The principal and vice principal of the Middle school was also very involved. As well as our rescource officer. | People Impacted: | In the middle school there are about 450 children but in addition to the kids I feel many more people than just the middle school students were impacted. I had teachers and paretns come up to me afterwards and tell me that some things that were said really made them think and now they think twice about wearing their seatbelts. I know that people from all over the commuinty were touched. The group was in the newspaper and able to share our story through numerous media apperances. |
| Money Raised: | We went around to local insurance agencies and collected $140 dollars from them. Then we asked the local resturants if there was anything thy could do to help and McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Breadeaux and Little Blessing all donated discount card. |
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Related Cause: Smart DrivingCategory: Public Health
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