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EAST news 2016 Issue 14 5th Annual EAST Community Outreach Program Shannon M. Foster MD FACS Outreach Program Co-Chair EAST Injury Control and Violence Prevention Section Your Life. Your Choice. Arrive Alive San Antonio. During the 29th Annual Scien- tific Assembly of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma EAST the Injury Control and Violence Prevention Section ICVP held its 5th Annual EAST Community Outreach Program. A multi-faceted program based on the core prevention efforts of distracted driving violence and substance abuse was brought to the 1900 students of Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. The unique and laudable goal to interact with and positively impact our local host community during this now annual event held the day prior to the EAST Annual Scientific Assembly was again realized. In combination with the established prevention network and robust resources of Bexar County and Universi- ty Health System San Antonio UHS and further collabora- tion with the Society of Trauma Nurses STN and the American Trauma Society ATS more than 100 volunteer members brought heightened awareness of current teen safety issues to the forefront. An entire day of programming was presented to junior and senior students with additional modified programs to reach the needs of underclass- men all including didactic and hands-on sessions direct inter- actions with trauma survivors and local emergency providers and multiple accident simulat- ing and life-saving machinery demonstrations. Importantly this event has become an unparal- leled hands-on opportunity in camaraderie and direct ex- change of resources materials and ideas for trauma prevention leaders and beginners nation- wide. Our words of prevention were spread community-wide via the six different broadcast news stations who visited the school and aired segments about the program impossible to miss were the overhead highway signs which flashed our tag lines in the days following - instant prevention messaging to a huge audience The education the students received will be studied for retention and behavior modi- fication with surveys and further