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= SGHS Students Against Destructive Decisions =

[|National SADD Website]
Originally, the mission of the SADD chapter was to help young people say "No" to drinking and driving. Today, the mission has expanded. Students have told us that positive peer pressure, role modeling and environmental strategies can prevent other destructive decisions and set a healthier, safer course for their lives. And that is why SADD has become a peer-to-peer education, prevention, and activism organization dedicated to preventing destructive decisions, particularly underage drinking, other drug use, risky and impaired driving, teen violence, and teen suicide.

 **SADD's mission:**

**To provide students with the best prevention tools possible to deal with the issues of underage drinking, other drug use, risky and impaired driving, and other destructive decisions.**  **SGHS SADD Activities**: 1) Monthly Issue -- members choose an issue for each month to educate peers about; ranging from peer pressure to body image. (Members are broken into committees to be a part of issues that they are passionate about.) 2) Major Events/Issues -- SADD takes part in the Red Ribbon campaign during the holiday season to warn against drunk driving; and Prom Promise/Summer Safety at the end of the school year to promote sober activities at prom and healthy decisions during the summer while away from the structure of school. (All members take part in these activities/events.) 3) Fundraising/Service -- members have chosen to take part in Pop Tops campaign for Ronald McDonald House. Raises money for RMH charities and their operations within Richmond by collecting tops to aluminum cans.