YOU DON'T ALWAYS GET A SECOND CHANCE
OUR MISSION STATEMENT
Helping students make healthier choices in their lives since 1987. Thank you for all your support
Bob Lapete
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To learn more about Bob and the SCAR program, visit the Page"About Us".
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To see the impact that Bob has had on students, school staff members and parents visit the"Letters Page".
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Read some excerpts from the hundreds of letters he receives each year from them after they have seen him speak.
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Specific letters from parents of students who died as a result of DUI.
Second Chance And Recovery needs your help. Even with the smallest donation, you can help Bob get his message out and hopefully save one more life!
Mr. Bob Lapete
SCAR has been bringing its substance abuse program to schools since 1987. The message is Bob Lapete’s own personal story about one night of drunk driving changed his life forever. The disabilities he sustained as a result of the DUI accident left him with irreversible damage to his mobility and speech. He holds himself up as a living example of the consequences of those choices.
Chilling Photos
The Accident Scene
The Vehicle
Tragic Results
Somehow I Survived
TRAGIC REAL-LIFE STORIES
Mrs. Gaulin's daughter, Michelle, died on August 17, 1999, two years after she sustained Traumatic Head Injury in a drunk driving accident. the photo was taken at her junior prom.
Dear Bob,
My hope is that Bob's sharing of my daughter's story will hopefully save a life. The hurt of her death will never leave me, but what Bob is doing helps with my sense of loss. I also know Michelle would want you to know her story too.
Sincerely, Mrs. Gaulin
Dear Bob,
I want to express profound gratitude for your chosen mission of sharing your life experience and substance abuse message with teenagers.
When the halls are silent as students emerge from your presentation. When they stand wordlessly in twos and threes, some with tears in their eyes. When, in the small groups that meet frequently afterward, students eagerly ask questions and listen in rapt attention to the answers, I know they have been deeply touched.
This is not about signs and symptoms. Kids know much about that. It is about a vulnerable human being speaking his truth simply and authentically, with humor, poetry and music, things kids relate to at a gut level. I believe in that moment of decision whether to drink and drive, yours is the kind of message that gives young people pause to value their own life and the lives of their friends.
I am honored you have chosen to use the last picture ever taken of Julie for emphasis in your moving and up-beat presentation. My daughter’s sweet seventeen year old face, in the red sweater leaning against a tree, is the face of those who have yet to make this life-changing choice.
- Sincerely, Jane E. Card
Speaking Engagements
“He limps off the stage in the lecture hall where the kids are gathered on the floor in front of him. His awkward gate is just another reminder of that night....” - The Conway Daily Sun