2016 HSH Scholarship Winner Announced for St. Mike’s TIPSY Youth Program

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Jim Howie (center) with Kelly and the TIPSY team

Since 2009, Howie, Sacks & Henry has been proud to be the sole sponsor of St. Michael’s Hospital ThinkFirst Injury Prevention Strategy for Youth (TIPSY) Program.

Established in 2006, TIPSY program is a half day injury prevention program offered throughout the academic year to high school students (grades 11 & 12) in the GTA. The goal is to help youth understand how driver inexperience, lack of restraint use, and drinking/drugging while driving can result in tragedy on the roadways.

This popular  program is taught by an inter-professional team of nurses, physicians, and representatives from Toronto Police Services, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and a Voice of Injury Prevention (VIP). The VIP is a trauma survivor who has sustained a brain or spinal cord injury and recounts first-hand the events leading up to his/her injury, its consequences and lasting effects.

Senior Partner Adam Wagman spoke recently at one of the TIPSY sessions.  His message: Don’t drink and drive, don’t text and drive, be smart and make good decisions. Watch his video.

About TIPSY

To learn more about TIPSY, visit this link.

HSH TIPSY Scholarship Winners

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Kelly Ge, 2015-16 Winner

The TIPSY Scholarship Competition gives participating students the opportunity to win a $1,000 scholarship provided by Howie, Sacks & Henry.

The presentation to Kelly Ge, the 2015-16 winner, was made on August 31st. Representing HSH was Founding Partner Jim Howie (pictured above).

Kelly’s winning entry was an art film- styled short titled “Friday Nights“, about how a bad decision changes everything.

Previous Winners

2014- 15:  Cassandra Piekarski and Teagan Anderson, for their short film documenting how girls night can take a tragic turn.

2013 – 14:  Paula Resende wrote a compelling short story, Not Everything That Happens Is an Accident.

2012–13:  Melissa Lloyd  won with her poem entitled Six Feet Under.

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2015 -16 Winners Cassandra Piekarski and Teagan Anderson

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2013-14 Winner Paula Resende

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2012-13 Winner Melissa Lloyd

 

 


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