Stories
People just like you have shared their stories with us. Reading about everyday heros and how you can be one, too.
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My Friend Saved My Life
July 6th, 2009 “My Friend Saved My Life. After a night of drinking at the bars on SLU’s campus I jumped into my car and proceeded to go back to my house in St. Charles. Before I could be on my way, however, I stopped at the nearest gas station to fill up my tank ...
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Camp Twitch and Shout
“I remember eating lunch at school all by myself and the mean kids would parade around me and mock my noises. My teacher made me get up in front of the class and apologize to everybody for the noises I was making,” Cohen recalls. More than 20 years later, Cohen is a camp director, celebrating ...
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My Story of How I was Saved
How do you save a life; people have struggled with since the beginning of humanity. First it was purely for survival of your family in the fittest. Today we are living in an ever more increasingly complex world in which societies place enormous and unrealistic standards and expectations on its people. This is very prevalent in our ...
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Shay’s Story
At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question: ‘When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does, is ...
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Taralei’s Story
Taralei I recently began my way to “change the world” called Turtle Grass Innovations. I started it because I have been suicidal, and had some pretty bad things happen, but I wanted to help stop things like that from happening. Even though I may not be fully healed myself, I want to change the world ...
Announcements
Operation Prom Night
The Save a Life Campaign will be speaking at Sherrard High School in Sherrard, Illinois, on Wednesday, May 2nd. The theme of the engagement is “Where do You Stand?”
It Get’s Better
Beginning with one inspiring video, Dan Savage used the web to create the It Gets Better project–a movement that has generated thousands of uplifting videos that give hope to teens.
Dateline:’My Kid Would Never Do That: Driving’
Teen Drinking and Driving: Parental Sanity Savers and 4 Critical Tips to Boost Your Teen’s Safety. By Dr. Michele Borba
