Youth Task Force group learns about Team Spirit

Members of The Vernon County Youth Task Force, Youth Enrichment Services committee and students from the Sheldon school district went to a Team Spirit event this weekend in Columbia, Mo., and participated in the Team Spirit Program.

According to their website, Team Spirit is a program designed to empower youth to take an active role in promoting safe driving habits, preventing alcohol and other drug use and the impaired driving that accompanies such use.

Through their involvement in this program, Team Spirit members strengthen their individual determination and ability to remain alcohol and drug free. By working together, the students become an effective team creating positive changes within their schools and communities.

The goal of the Team Spirit Leadership Training Conference is to provide participants with motivation, leadership skills, and information. Each school team will then have an opportunity to develop their own team's individual action plan to address traffic crashes in their school and community.