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Teens in Action presents its play Distractions at the NBC 4 Annual Health Fair.
Jessica Collins spreads the word on RoadSkill to passers-by at the RoadSkill booth at the NBC 4 Health Fair.

Teens in Action paused for a group shot after a long afternoon of filming the crash scene.

JOIN US In Making a Difference

We want to change the statistics and have a safer world for KIDS

We want to invite you to participate in our Teen Driving Safety Forum.  As you have read in the newspapers in our region, teen driving deaths and injuries have impacted our communities at an alarming rate over the past few months.  The youth in Camp Fire USA Teens in Action are very concerned about this.  On April 26, 2008, the teens in partnership with the National Youth Leadership Council, the Chesapeake Safety Council,  State Farm Insurance, Bishop McNamara High School, National Organization for Youth Safety, and other community, government, businesses and non profit groups, will be hosting a Road Skill/Roads Kill Teen Driving Safety Summit.   This summit is a component of the work the students have done over the past 2 years to heighten the awareness of the community to the issue of teen driving safety.  We would like to invite students from your school to participate in our event.  The summit will be held at Bishop McNamara High School in Forestville, MD.  Youth from across the area along with their adult mentors and advisors are being invited to explore ways that they can implement a Teen Driving Safety program in their school or community organization.

The event is purposefully being held on Global Youth Service Day and will follow a Service Learning Format.  Youth will be engaged in discussions of Teen Driving Safety issues, provided resources for addressing issues in their local schools or communities, and will in the course of the day create a service-learning project that they can launch during the Month of May 2008 and in the beginning of the 2008-9 School year.  Student and expert speakers will demonstrate methods that they have used to increase awareness the need for this issue to be addressed in our community.  A variety of events are planned for the day including a 3-hour workshop that pilots the new Alive at 25 Teen Driving Education Program sponsored by the National Safety Council.   A representative of each school attending will be enrolled in this course and will be able to bring the information from the course back to their school and work at having the program offered in their school community.

 

The Day will begin at 8:30 A.M and end at 8:30 PM.  The cost of the day for each participant will be $20.00, which includes the cost of lunch, Dinner, Snacks, and materials for each participant.  A tentative Schedule is attached so that you may have some idea of the activities planned for the day. 

 

If you have questions, you can contact Mrs. Rosemary Pezzuto, Executive Director, Camp Fire USA, and Patuxent Area Council at 301-346-7860 or via email at CampFirePatuxent@aol.com .