Program Highlights
- Assemblies conducted in at least 50 schools, reaching approximately 17,000 students each year
- Conducted first assembly for teens in 1980
- Serves as one of two original national program models
- Founding neurosurgeon - Clark Watts, MD, JD
Sponsoring physician – Dr. Joseph Burris, MD - Harm’s Way, original ThinkFirst film, produced at this site in 1986
- 20 VIP speakers deliver over 100 presentations annually
- Has distributed 235 ThinkFirst For Kids curricula
- Sponsors: Missouri Department of Transportation - Highway Safety Division, MU School of Medicine and Rusk Rehabilitation Center
- Staff involvement: Missouri Injury & Violence Prevention Advisory Committee, Columbia Safe Kids Coalition, ThinkFirst National Injury Prevention Foundation Board of Directors and Missouri Coalition for Roadway Safety
- Recipient of numerous local, state & national awards
