coming to senses:

Niky Donaldson and Allie Burns

COMING TO SENSES: Hope Exists

Is about the REALIZATION that we must come to,

to see that bullying and consequential issues are

happening daily to the ones we know and love.

They may be too afraid to ask for help. We must be

there for one another and understand we may not feel

how another feels, but they need our support.

VISION

• To help students realize they are not alone, that they need to reach out for help

• To show students the causes of bullying, the repercussions of bullying, that they need to take the time to understand others

• To bring attention to the fact that Anti-Bullying and pop culture CAN fit together

MISSION

• To put together a benefit concert, profits going towards Seneca’s Anti-Bullying Club

• To gain recognition of the club

• To show the importance of the operation of the club

STATISTICS

U.S. Suicide Statistics (2001)• Attempted Suicides• There are approximately 750,000 suicide attempts each year. • An estimated 5 million living Americans have attempted suicide. • More females attempt suicide than males.

(3 female attempts for each male attempt.) • Survivors of Suicide• Each suicide intimately affects at least 6 other people. (estimate) • Based on the 742,000+ suicides from 1977 through 2001, it is

estimated that the number of survivors of suicides is 4.45 million (1 out of every 64 Americans).

• Since, on average, a suicide occurs every 17 minutes, then there are about 6 new suicide survivors every 17 minutes as well.

• http://www.suicide.org/suicide-statistics.html

PLAN OF ACTION

• To collect funding, we are willing to ask local businesses for their support in return for their advertisement on a shirt for the benefit, or an advertisement space at the benefit

• We have a lengthy list of local bands and their contact information to directly ask them if they would be interested in playing at the concert

PLAN OF ACTION, continued

• The concert will (tentatively) be in the Wattsburg Middle School Gymnasium with Chinese Auctions taking place in the cafeteria, as well as informational booths about depression, suicide and bullying

• Friday, May 20th, or Friday, May 27th would be the optimal days for the concert, at 7PM

ALL WE ASK…• Is for your approval of this event. We feel that we

are fit and ready to plan for this event because we recently graduated and we know what high school students struggle with, and how they choose to deal with it. We support Seneca’s Anti-Bullying club 100% and want to show them that they have our encouragement in what they are doing. We have been inspired by the way the students are pulling together on their own. Please consider the concert as a serious request, as we know it is a heavy task to take on, but we are beyond ready and willing to help.