TESTIMONIALS
YOU CHOOSE receives tens of thousands of Testimonials. Here is a recent selection.
"…there is no doubt that all who experience this presentation are profoundly impacted to change their behaviours for the better… it is the most effective program of its type to young people that I have seen…”
Tracey Clouston
Senior Constable | Queensland Police Service
"Without doubt, the You Choose remains the session which has the most impact on our senior students. The delivery allows a connection with students, which produces personal reflection on a level that ensures the messages will reman with them. Road Safety is just one aspect of presentation. I implore all high schools to make YOU CHOOSE a priority for their senior students.”
Matt Carroll
Head of Year 12 | Marymount College
“My mates and I did the YOU CHOOSE program in Year 12. In the two years since, there have been at least three times that the program has come up between us. Speaking out in real time about our choices, because we’ve already agreed to call each other out when we have to. For sure, it blocked the kind of behaviour that often wrecks lives. No other course we did, ever made us actually talk to each other about stuff…”
EDEN
Eden 20 years-old, YOU CHOOSE Advocate/Participant
"Thank you for arranging this program. Our family had one of the most meaningful discussions we have had in many years around the dinner table last night. We have two teenage drivers, a red P plater and a Learner. Our son Nicholas shared with us, without any prompting, what he learnt, what he had felt, and what he will do differently as a result of YOU CHOOSE yesterday...it is literally life saving and we wanted to thank Melissa and the school for this gift our family has received.”
Lisa Lawton-Wade
Year 12 Parent | Newington College
"I just wanted to say on behalf of my group and the Knox boys in my year, thank you so much for YOU CHOOSE. it is one of the first times I have ever seen any of my mates so emotional while talking our choices and consequences. I'm sure it has made major impact on all of us - especially being known as the irresponsible group at school...”
Samson Nicholl
Year 12 Student | Knox Grammar School
"… Students in their senior schooling need to hear this. As a professional educator, I have not witnessed a more powerful presentation.”
Scott Thomson
Principal | St Joseph's College Banora Point
"I just wanted to say a huge thank you for bringing YOU CHOOSE to my school today. I know you probably get many messages like these, but I just wanted to let you know that it really did impact my grade. I have never, ever, seen my grade so aware of the consequences that our own choices and decisions make. I believe that the majority of have really woken up to the realities that getting behind the wheel holds, as well as our choices as passengers. So on behalf of everyone I would love to personally thank you...the feeling in the whole grade hit home deeply and will NEVER be forgotten. Thank you for what you’re doing, you are changing people’s lives.”
Sam Hewitsin
Year 11 Student | St Mark's Catholic College
