THE CYAID CONFERENCE IS ALMOST FULL!
If you have not sent in your conference registration forms by April 7th? - Please call the conference hotline (877) 70-OSAID in order to ensure a spot - we have limited conference spots available.

The Canadian Public Health Association has a great campaign on pot and driving. Go to their website at www.potanddriving.cpha.ca for great information and free promotional materials including a poster.

You read it right!
We will send out 5 free OSAID bracelets per school (while supplies last) in exchange for some information about your OSAID group.
Did you just start an OSAID group this year? What inspired you to do that?
What cool event has your OSAID group done this year?
Email us at  with the information, your school name and to whose attention the bracelets should be sent. AND..... if you would like ongoing information sent to you weekly with statistics, resources, fundraising ideas and more, send us your group's emails and we'll put you on our list!
(If you would like additional bracelets, they are $2.00 each plus postage)

OSAID will host the 2006 Canadian Youth Against Impaired Driving Conference!
Where? Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario
When: Thursday, May 11 to Sunday, May 14, 2006
 

Hypnotist Marc Savard's alcohol awareness program entitled, "Your Mind, Your Power, Your Choice" will be touring Ontario in 2006!

October 2002 was Marc's last full tour to Ontario, so this long awaited return is finally confirmed. Since the last tour, our headquarters have moved and we are now based out of Las Vegas. The show has recently toured different regions in the United States and Canada. The demand for the show has escalated and there foredates for Ontario are limited. The scheduled dates for the province of Ontario are:
April 19th - May 10th, 2006

This only makes 16 school days that are available to be booked!! With the hundreds of schools in Ontario, these dates will not last long!

OSAID is pleased to have resources available on an on-loan basis. You would only pay for the purolator costs to and from your location. These include the ICBC The Road Sense Packages. There are 3 age appropriate kits (Grade 8, 10 and 11/12) which include videos, instructional plans and a teacher background booklet in each. "Refuse to be Roadkill for Anybody" - an 8' x 3' event banner available for a 2 week period per school. Don't forget about the essential start-up kits.

"OSAID Friends" Bracelet.
You saw them at the conference and loved them! We still have some of the red silcone style bracelets left - inscribed with "OSAID Friends".
Price: $2.00 each plus shipping
Call toll free: 1-877-706-7243
Send your cheque or money order to OSAID Inc. Rural Roots Office, c/o The Delphi Centre, Box 279, Flesherton, Ontario N0C 1E0

FREE! PSA's (Public Service Announcements)
This PSA is a 30 second rap commercial all about what we're all about. GREAT for school assemblies, GREAT for giving to your local radio station.
 

Tears in pictures, pictures in tears
Is that how it goes?
Maybe as you look at a long lost picture you will begin to cry because it will get to you
As I still look at pictures of past times I look and say to myself did that really happen? did I really do that? did I really go there? It keeps going on
Once upon a far back time I had a real family
real friends, real everything
Wait maybe everything was a dream maybe I have a family still
Wait I don't
When Drinking comes into affect everything changed, the world turned faster and now I feel like there is no where to go
what is drinking and driving to me?
It changed my life that's for sure; not knowing time was going to be wasted and destroyed
I look at newspapers and watch on the news about people drinking and driving
people that get hurt out of all
people that don't see behind their true self
Have no faith
They are so helpless
Reading and hearing about things that have happened make me scared
Make me wonder what's my next step
Do I want to take it?
Will anyone be with me on choices I make?
Pictures and tears mix
Drinking and driving don't
Tears are filled with joyful memories or sadness
Memories are filled with past times
Don't let drinking and driving get to you, stop it now
Be safe Get HELP!
Have a family, have friends, enjoy life!

We've added a new link to our links page, to Orillia Against Drunk Driving . Go check their page out if you have the time!

There have also been some small updates to the Speakers page, with new information for Richerd Mayuk, and a new entry for John Westhaver. Go take a look, and find that perfect speaker for your school assembly!