The Every 15 Minutes program is a two-day program focusing on high school juniors and seniors, which challenges them to think about drinking, driving, personal safety, the responsibility of making mature decisions and the impact their decisions have on family, friends, their community, and many others.
The La Palma Community Foundation has partnered with John F. Kennedy High School, California Highway Patrol, the City of La Palma Police Department and the Orange County Fire Authority to bring this program to La Palma students.
The program brings together a broad coalition of interested local agencies with the goal of reducing alcohol-related incidents among youth. The partnering of the California Highway Patrol, local law enforcement, local hospitals, emergency medical responders, schools, businesses, and service clubs validates the importance of working together to ensure a healthy community.
The two-day Every 15 Minutes program is very dramatic and emotional- and purposely so. Teenagers are constantly reminded about the choices they have to make involving alcohol and how many others are affected by their decisions. They know the intellectual statistics. However, many teens share the belief it will never happen to them.
This powerful program is designed to create an awareness among students that they are not invincible. This program helps open the emotional doors, and students experience first-hand how their actions affect the lives of so many other people.
