I am a volunteer in the P.A.R.T.Y. program at VGH. To help support PARTY, I will personally donate $25 per passenger from my commission to the VIHA Foundation. PARTY (Prevent Alcohol & Risk related Trauma in Youth) is a program at the Victoria General Hospital - the trauma center for all of Vancouver Island. This brings in grade 10 students from participating high schools and exposes them to the realities of life in terms of the choices they make and their possible consequences should an accident occur. It stresses the fragility of human life and the power they as individuals have to make the right choices so as to avoid being another statistic. No preaching - just showing them reality - from a plenary talk with a trauma room surgeon, to the mock-up of an accident scene, to a simiuated trauma room where staff fight to preserve the youngster's life, to a session with real brain injury surviviors, to a session which simulates various disabilities, and a talk with the police school liaison officer. Then there is a plenary talk with a severe trauma victim survivor presenting his/her own personal story. The whole program and presentation is predicated upon the fact that students of this age have reached the point where they are making major choices in life and we wish to encourage them to enjoy life, and to make sound choices based on real life possibilities, not what they see on TV. Buckling up seatbelts in a car and wearing a helmet in bicycling and other sports do save lives!