SIKESTON – The Southeast Coalition for Roadway Safety is awarding grant funding for project prom and graduation events at 33 schools across the district. Schools were recently awarded $200 for student lock-in events. Funding assists with event expenses such as location rental, food, or entertainment. Schools will also receive roadway safety educational items to share with students.
Local high schools include:
- Ava
- Dora High
- East Carter County
- Ellington
- Eminence
- Gainesville
Hartville - Koshkonong
- Licking
- Norwood
- Plato
- Summersville
- Thayer
- Van Buren
- West Plains
- Willow Springs
To be eligible, schools must include a presentation or activity educating students on highway safety issues during their lock-in or the week of the event. With traffic fatalities rising, safety education is critical to reducing serious injuries and deaths on Missouri’s roadways. Schools are choosing to educate students in various ways, including presentations and programs by the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Safe and Sober, ThinkFirst, and docudramas.
“Traffic crashes have a lasting effect on each of us. Through education programs like Project Prom/Graduation, BUPD, or Arrive Alive, hopefully, we can change the causes or impact of these crashes.” says Sergeant Clark Parrott, Missouri State Highway Patrol Troop E Public Information Officer.
To view the complete list of grant winners, please visit https://www.modot.org/media/41708
For additional information, contact Southeast Coalition Representative Ashley Metelski at (573) 472-5885 or MoDOT’s Customer Service Center at 1-888-ASK-MoDOT (888-275-6636), or visit the Southeast Coalition’s website at: www.savemolives.com/se
