PREAMBLE:
Given the power and potential of student activism, service, and leadership,
we hereby join the SADD Chapter Network. We pledge to end the tragedies resulting
from underage drinking, alcohol-related crashes, and other destructive decisions,
and to create positive change in our lives.
ARTICLE I:
NAME
This organization shall be known as ________ High School SADD, Students Against
Destructive Decisions/Students Against Driving Drunk.
ARTICLE II:
PURPOSE
SADD, Students Against Destructive Decisions, is a school-based organization
dedicated to addressing the issues of underage drinking, impaired driving,
drug use, and other destructive decisions and killers of young people. SADD's
mission is to provide students with the best prevention and intervention tools
possible to deal with the serious issues young adults are facing today. Empowerment
is SADD's basic principle. The idea of empowerment is to build students' confidence
and ability to create changes and manage behavior in a way that results in
healthy life choices. SADD promotes a message of "No Use" of alcohol
or drugs and encourages students not to participate in activities with destructive
consequences. SADD offers life lessons that will lead members well into the
21st century.
ARTICLE III:
Membership is open to all students who accept these goals:
- To end underage drinking, drinking and driving, drug use and other destructive behavior;
- To refuse to ride with a driver who has been drinking or using drugs;
- To help others do the same.
ARTICLE IV:
A local chapter is considered part of SADD if it supports this constitution.
