Every 15 Minutes is a two-day program focused on junior and senior high school students, who challenge them to think about drinking, driving, personal safety, and the responsibility to make informed decisions. Along with alcohol-related disabilities, the focus is on the impact their decisions will make on family and friends.
Every 15 Minutes Program comes from Canada and was soon adopted in the first United States in Spokane, Washington. The site of the First 15 Minute Program in California is at Chico presented by the Chico Police Department in 1995.
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Planning and events
Planning
Every 15 Minute Program starts a few months before the actual presentation, even the first program in the school will take about a year to be planned and prepared. This includes all involved agencies, police, firefighters, paramedics, hospitals, courts, lawyers, judges, prison facilities, coroner/funeral homes, students, parents and school administrators. Student participants are selected to cover the full spectrum of the student body, thus, the audience will be able to connect with at least one of the participants on the day of the accident.
Recent progress
Because of the major grants and guidance by the Highway Patrol, the program has made its way to even more student hometowns. In recent years, the California Highway Patrol continues to refine the Every 15 Minutes program, which is always more than two days - the first day is an accident, with the second day as an assembly, featuring speakers ranging from student participants and their parents to motivational speakers, relatives who has lost a loved one in a drunken driving accident (no "driving" accident), medical personnel, lawyers and law enforcement officers.
In southern California this program has also been modified by a civilian coordinator who has attracted viewers from watching on the sidewalk to sit on the benches, allowing for better viewing; eliminating death angels (often seen by students as unreal); and add SMS elements to a simple drive. This element brings the program augmenting reality, as current figures show more teenagers are killed in text-related accidents than in drunk driving accidents. However, the grant is dedicated to drunk driving and will be eliminated if too much emphasis on texting. To maintain a drinking emphasis, it is mentioned that drunk drivers can reduce the severity of injury or death as they concentrate on the road and not on the phone.
From the beginning, technology has improved, providing an increase to program impact and gravity from drunk driving problems. During the event, new technology has made it possible to turn back the videography quickly, allowing a comprehensive video of the cause and effect relationship between drunk driving and police involvement, family burdens and community losses to be played at the second day of meetings. While the student videographer sometimes takes this job, it is more common for a professional crew to do the work. Recently, there has been a resurgence of student work, because schools ask one or two of their students to intern with professionals, or students make "making" films, overshadowing the entire E15 process.
The program has recently been extended. The children were made to play the real role in the accident, especially in California. The car falls, students bleed and handcuffed, and parents are told that their children have been killed. Some of these protests, saying it was traumatic.
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Effectiveness
Studies that have tracked students before and after the program Every 15 Minutes has indicated that this program may have a beneficial short-term effect on the student's stated attitudes but has no effect on actual behavior. This has led to allegations that the Every 15 Minutes program is similar to the controversial controversial DARE anti-drug program resulting in a problem-solving appearance but does not produce the desired behavioral changes. It has long been known that this type of approach (ie scare tactics, dramatization) that seeks to raise awareness or increase knowledge is ineffective..
The question has also been raised about the basic premise of the program, that one person dies every 15 minutes in an accident related to alcohol. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that in 1995, the first year of the program was presented, the figure was actually one death every 30.4 minutes in the United States. It uses a very broad NHTSA definition of "alcohol related" in which the accident is defined as "alcohol related" if any person involved has a blood alcohol level of 0.01% or higher. The nationally recognized level of DUI assumption in the United States is 0.08%. Alcohol-related death rates have decreased gradually and constituted one death every 40.4 minutes in 2007, one death every 45 minutes in 2008, and one death every 56.5 minutes by 2015.
References
External links
- Every 15 Minutes
Photos
- Every 15 Minutes in Germantown High School
- Every 15 Minutes at Menomonee Falls High School
- Every 15 Minutes in West Bend East & amp; Western High School
Video
- Rialto, CA Every 15 Minutes Video
- St. Vincent High School, Petaluma, CA Every 15 Minutes Video
- Kenilworth, NJ Every 15 Minutes
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