Health & Fitness
Casey Feldman Foundation and NOYS Partner for 2nd Annual YOUTH-Turn Contest
Middle school, high school and college students can enter the annual Youth-Turn It Around Awards contest for cash prizes donated by the Casey Feldman Memorial Foundation.
YOUTH-Turn, a program of National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS), sponsored by the Casey Feldman Memorial Foundation and supported by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), is inspiring young people to a turn traffic adversity into action with its annual Youth-Turn It Around Awards.
The annual contest is open to middle school, high school and college students. Award winners will receive up to $2,000 for their student organization for implementing a positive project in their school and community which addresses a traffic adversity. The deadline for registration is April 17.
Go to the NOYS website for details.
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Last year, there were three winners sharing $10,000 in cash prizes, donated by the Casey Feldman Memorial Foundation.
The 2011 first-place award winner, the Howells-Clarkson, Family, Career and Community Leaders of America Chapter of Howells, Nebraska received $5,000 for their "Wear Your Seat Belt!" project. The FCCLA chapter created the project to avoid future tragedies after one of their members was involved in a serious car crash.
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The second place winner, the University of Virginia’s Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Team (ADAPT), was awarded $3,000 for addressing the impaired driving that takes place on the day of the Foxfield Races steeplechase event near Charlottesville, Va.
The third place award recipient, the SADB (Students Against Destructive Behavior) chapter at Easthampton High School of Easthampton, Mass. got $2,000 for their efforts in reducing teen driving fatalities.
You can read more about last year’s projects and award winners here.
Casey Feldman was a 21-year-old senior journalism student at Fordham University when she was struck and killed by a distracted driver in Ocean City, New Jersey on July 17, 2009. Casey graduated from in 2006. The Casey Feldman Memorial Foundation was established in her memory and is involved in pedestrian safety and distracted driving awareness education.
