Public Advocacy

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During my entire high school career I was involved with a certain public advocacy group known as SADD. SADD stands for Students Against Destructive Decisions. My fellow group members and I had the task of talking to health classes each year about the millions of bad choices that high school students make. It was our job to inform them, student to student, of the many situations that they might find themselves in. We discussed topics such as drugs, alcohol, drunk driving, and the consequences that these choices have. We spoke not only to inform underclassmen, but to protect the community that we lived in. This is a great example of public advocacy because it was a group of high school students standing up and speaking for a good cause by their own free will. Now this does not mean that no one ever made bad choices after we had talked to them, but I would like to believe that we stopped some that may have made the wrong choice otherwise.