Students Pledge to Make Healthy, Responsible Decisions

Members of the Irvington High School Positive Impact Club held an awareness campaign during homecoming weekend and asked students and teachers to pledge to make healthy and responsible decisions.

“The goal of the project was to demonstrate that many of our teens are choosing to make healthy and responsible choices as well as bring awareness to unhealthy and risky decision-making that can take place,” said Jennifer Nunziato, student assistance counselor and advisor of the Positive Impact Club.

As the student assistance counselor, Nunziato works to enhance positive and healthy decision-making, as well as reduce the factors that put students at risk for alcohol and other drug use. During the campaign, she and her students collected more than 300 pledges from students, who pledged to treat others with compassion, empathy and kindness, to never drink and drive, and to make healthy choices when spending time with their peers.

In exchange for a pledge, the students received a green Irvington bulldog rally towel, sponsored by the Irvington About Safe Kids coalition. iASK is a coalition that represents all sectors of the community — parents, students, educators, law enforcement officials, medical professionals, business people and more — and works to motivate youth to make healthy, happy and responsible decisions.

Source: Irvington UFSD