EVERY 15 MINUTES

The Every 15 Minutes program is a two-day program focusing on high school students, 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 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, Friday Night Live, 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. They  experience first hand how their actions affect the lives of so many other people.

Templeton High School is grateful to the many agencies, community members, parents, staff, students and especially our strong partnership with Friday Night Live for bringing the Every 15 Minutes program to our school community in March 2024.