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The Shattered Lives of Tomball will present this life changing program at Tomball High School on March 12 and 13, 2008. It has been a wonderful experience to coordinate this event with Kevin Williams of T.H.S. The Directors, Rebecca Carlisle (Tomball Police Department), Vicki Butler-Rindos (BJ Services) and Joe Jasso (Tomball Fire Department) as well as the lead event Coordinators, Kim Garrett, Trae Gammon, Deveron Moss, Charlie Rizzo, and Holly Siedel have all worked extremely hard to prepare for the third program presented by the Shattered Lives of Tomball. We are very excited to see the outcome of this event, and know that the students and parents involved will forever remember this effort to educate our youth in the consequences of poor decision making and drinking alcohol when driving!
A huge THANK YOU goes out to the first responders who have given their time and knowledge to make certain that this event is as realistic as possible. The Shattered Lives of Tomball cannot exist without 100% community support. The Tomball Police Department, Tomball Fire Department, Northwest EMS and Tomball Regional Medical Center have all provided outstanding support services in order to maintain the high level of professionalism and pride in a well developed mass critical incident scenario such as this.
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WHAT IS SHATTERED LIVES?
Shattered Lives is an anti-DWI program that was
created by Mike Valdez and Holly Pichette for Montgomery
County, Texas. Mike Valdez is the Assistant District
Attorney of Montgomery County, and Holly Pichette works as a
Paramedic for the Montgomery County Hospital District.
The Shattered Lives Program is attempting to make a significant
impact on high school juniors and seniors, and their families. The program
is about the consequences of poor decision making related to
drinking and driving. During the course of two days, the
Shattered Lives Program demonstrates the "real life" timing
and results that drinking and driving can have on the entire
community.
WHO IS SHATTERED LIVES OF TOMBALL?
Shattered Lives of Tomball is the same great program
you know in Montgomery County, the only difference is that
the Tomball program has different coordinators, but every
other element of the program is the same. The Tomball
program coordinators are Rebecca Carlisle,
with Vickie Butler Rindos, Kim Garrett, and
Joe Jasso
rounding out the core team. It was established as a non-profit
501(c)(3) in 2005 and has three directors, SGT Rebecca Carlisle of Tomball Police
Department, Joe Jasso, Tomball Fire Marshal and Vickie
Butler Rindos of BJ Services.
For many years, the Tomball Fire Department,
Tomball Police
Department, and Northwest EMS have observed the huge impact
this program was having on the young adults of Montgomery
County, and wanted to bring this very worthwhile program to
the City of Tomball. When Jodi Adams accepted the role
of Public Education Officer for the Tomball Fire Department,
her first goal was to bring Shattered Lives to Tomball High
School.
To get things started, Jodi Adams arranged a meeting
with , Mike Valdez (Assistant District Attorney of
Montgomery County),
Holly Pichette (Montgomery County Hospital District) and
Tomball Fire Chief Randy Parr to discuss the possibility of bringing this
wonderful program to the City of Tomball. They really liked
the idea and graciously offered their assistance in kicking
off the 1st presentation of it in Harris County.
Therefore, Jodi Adams was established as one of three
directors and was the first lead coordinator for the
Shattered Lives of Tomball, Inc. The first
presentation
took place on March 7th & 8th, 2006 at the Tomball High
School. Based on impact studies and feedback from the
community, the program was a huge success.
VOLUNTEERS
Our Tomball program is comprised of a dedicated
group of volunteers who have collectively donated hundreds
of man hours to plan and coordinate this program, and was
funded 100% by our generous Community sponsors; Shattered
Lives would not have happened without either of their
support.
THE HARSH REALITY ABOUT ALCOHOL RELATED CRASHES
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration 2004 Report (NHTSA):
- More Americans have died in alcohol-related traffic
crashes than in all the wars the United States has been
involved in since our country was founded.
- It has been estimated that in the United States, over
three million teenagers are alcoholics. Several million more
have a serious drinking problem that they cannot manage on
their own.
- Traffic crashes are the number one killer of teens and
over one-third of teen traffic deaths are alcohol-related.
- Texas is the state with the second most drunk driving
deaths of any state, having been edged out of first place by
California.
- In 2004 there were 16,694 fatalities in alcohol-related
crashes in the U.S.
NHTSA estimates that alcohol was involved in 39
percent of fatal crashes and in 7 percent of all crashes in
2004. In 2004, 21 percent of the children age 14 and younger
who were killed in motor vehicle crashes were killed in
alcohol-related crashes. An estimated 248,000 people were
injured in crashes where police reported that alcohol was
present — an average of one person injured approximately
every 2 minutes.
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