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JPS Health Network - Shattered Dreams
Shattered Dreams is a community- and school-based program that promotes responsible decision making among high school students regarding underage drinking. After a mock crash scene at a local high school, students arrive via air and ground EMS to the JPS emergency department, where they experience a full trauma resuscitation and realistic follow-up care. Afterward, a trained chaplain debriefs with students, parents and staff about the experience.
What is it?
Shattered Dreams is a community- and school-based program that promotes responsible decision making among high school students regarding underage drinking. After a mock crash scene at a local high school, students arrive via air and ground EMS to the JPS emergency department, where they experience a full trauma resuscitation and realistic follow-up care. Afterward, a trained chaplain debriefs with students, parents and staff about the experience.
Who is it for?
Students and their families
Why do they do it?
Half of Texas’s high school seniors said that they had used alcohol in the past month, and 28 percent rode with a driver who had been drinking. The goal of Shattered Dreams is to inform youth of the risk involved in these choices.
Impact
To date, nearly 4,500 students have participated in Shattered Dreams; 83 percent said that they believed their friends would be less likely to drink and drive after the experience. A post-event survey showed an 8 percent decrease in overall alcohol consumption.
Contact: Mary Ann Contreras, R.N.
Trauma Services
Telephone: 817-702-8814
Email: maryann.contreras@jpshealth.org
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