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Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life
Program Activities
There are numerous ways to gain agreement for a drug-free community and make your voice heard.
A group in Adelaide, briefed local civic officials on the program and gained permission to paint their Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life message as a mural on the walls of the Goodwood railway station.
In another city, volunteers hit the raves and places where youth hang out and hand out anti-drug booklets.
Other groups set up stalls in markets and fairs and shopping centres and youth and adults on the truth about drugs, getting youth to get educated and then take a pledge to remain drug free and to encourage others to do so.
We have collected the most popular activities on this site to help you get started:
- Get a copy of the Drug Free Pledge and sign it, get all your friends to sign it, get your whole school or community group to sign it, get everyone to sign it!
- Starting your own Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life activity begins with deciding that you want your friends, family members, students or members of your community to be drug free. By visiting this website, you have already taken this step.
- Read The Truth About Drugs booklet and the individual drug prevention booklets in this series. We have created a study guide to help you get through them.
- Share the booklets with your friends and get them to agree to work with you.
- Use the activities described on this site to promote drug-free living. Start with a drug-free information booth, or a drug-free pledge signing event. If you are a teacher, you will easily see how the activities in the remainder of this section lend themselves to a classroom setting.
- Be creative. Whatever you decide to do, you will find wide agreement with your drug prevention actions and most everyone — mayors, police officers, teachers and shop owners — will be more than happy to help you with your events and group activities. And you will soon become aware of the best possible reward — more and more young people deciding to say no to drugs and yes to life as a result of your actions.
- Be sure to document your events with quality photographs or videos. These will enable you to make professional presentations and gain support for your activities. For instructional materials in how to shoot photographs and videos, write to the Drug Free Ambassadors.
- Download the Drug Free membership form, fill it out and become a member.
To obtain copies of the booklets, order from our main page. For pledges and other promotional materials mentioned on this website or to obtain a free copy of The Truth About Drugs Activities Manual, contact the Drug Free Ambassadors here