Know Your Role this Super Bowl
Fans Don’t Let Fans Drive Drunk Are You Drinking? If so, don’t drive. Follow these tips to have fun, stay alive, and avoid getting pulled over or crashing your vehicle on game day. Before Super Bowl Sunday, make a game plan that includes a sober driver – someone who will not be drinking at all. […]
What’s Your Game Plan for Super Bowl 50?
The Super Bowl is America’s most watched national sporting event. On Super Bowl 50 Sunday, February 7, there will be lots of game day socializing that may include drinking. That’s why the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and highway safety and law enforcement officials are urging football fans to call the […]
Open Casting Call for PSA!!
LOCAL OPEN CASTING CALL for National Public Service Announcement *TITLE OF PRODUCTION: House Party PSA *TYPE OF PRODUCTION: Video *COMPANY: Alliance for Safe Kids – 2051 Baldwin Road – Yorktown Heights – Suite 112 *PRODUCTION PERSONNEL: Contact: David Levin and Abby Tinari – 914-736-1450 davidlevin@aol.com – abby@allianceforsafekids.org *PRODUCTION DESCRIPTION: Public Service Announcement (PSA), Teen house-party / mock documentary *COMPENSATION & UNION […]
National Drug Facts Week
The Alliance for Safe Kids (ASK) joined forces with other teens and scientists across the United States as part of “National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week” (NDAFW). The week-long health observance, organized by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), both part of the National […]
Save A Life Presents Kevin Hines, Keynote Speaker
Save A Life is a program designed by the Alliance for Safe Kids (ASK) to inform and empower high school students and adults to become community allies and first responders to support teens and families in crisis. Save A Life is one of ASK’s leading programs which has directly touched the lives of over 1,000 community […]
Family Activity Ideas for 2016
Check out 10 new and fun activities you can try with your family to help you stay connected to your teens: Create a vision board with your kids. What are your child’s goals this year? Cut out pictures from old magazines and print out inspiring quotes that represent what your child wants to achieve over […]
Heroin Use Growing Among Teens
Use of heroin and other opioids is increasing among local high school students and even younger children in the Lower Hudson Valley, according to local drug counselors who are championing increased school-based efforts to combat addiction. During the 2014-15 school year, nine Westchester high school students told counselors with Student Assistance Services that they had used heroin. […]
What is Hookah?
According to the American Lung Association, hookah is a water pipe used to smoke a kind of tobacco called shisha. Shisha comes in different flavors and is also called nar-ghile, argileh, shisha, hubble-bubble, and goza. Hookah use began centuries ago in ancient Persia and India. Today, hookah cafés are gaining in popularity around the world, […]
Join the Ranks of Your Friends & Neighbors!
Join the ranks of your friends and neighbors by giving a gift to support the Alliance for Safe Kids. All donations made by 11:59pm on December 31, 2015 will be matched – dollar-for-dollar! Please know that, regardless of the amount you choose to give, your gift supports an organization that works directly in the community where you live […]