The SADD National office was inundated with 8,000 requests per week for six weeks. In 1984, Dear Abby and Ann Landers printed the Contract for Life, suggesting to all readers that they request a copy from SADD.
In 1982, SADD went national with offices founded throughout Massachusetts, Arizona, Ohio, North Carolina, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Florida, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Maine. He and a group of 15 students developed the SADD concept and the Contract for Life. SADD was founded by at Wayland High School in Massachusetts in 1981 by hockey coach Robert Anastas after a drunk driving incident took the lives of two of the school's hockey players. Projects include peer-led classes and forums, teen workshops, conferences and rallies, prevention education and leadership training, awareness-raising activities and legislative work. SADD's approach involves young people presenting education and prevention messages to their peers through school and community activities. "SADD empowers and mobilizes students and adult allies to engage in positive change through leadership and smart decision-making." Profile Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD), formerly Students Against Driving Drunk, is an organization whose aim is to prevent accidents from students taking potentially destructive decisions. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
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