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  • 21st Birthday letter: Did you know that you can easily die from taking 21 shots on your 21st birthday?  Take a look at this letter sent out to all students at The Ohio State University before their big day, and contact us to adopt it at your school.
  • 911 Tips: Would you know what to do if you found yourself in an emergency situation and your friend needed help?  Read this section and learn what happened the night Joey died.  Check out the OSU MVP magnet handed out to students at The Ohio State University, funded by JUMP, Joe Upshaw Memorial Project. Contact us to adopt this magnet at your school.
  • Good Samaritan Policy: College students and administrators – does your campus have a policy which protects students from getting in trouble when seeking help for a fellow student suffering an alcohol or drug overdose?  If you’re looking to start a Good Samaritan Policy / Medical Amnesty Policy at your school, here are some great links.

recent posts

11th Annual Joe Upshaw Golf Classic PICS!

Golf outing pics are finally posted to Facebook, and they are pretty darn funny.  Here is one of my very favorites, below.  Thanks to everyone who helped us raise $33,000 this year at the Joe Upshaw Golf Classic and KFA Benefit & Silent Auction.  Love to you all!  

design a logo for UP

Exciting news!  We have named the middle school program, and it will be called UP.  Two letters, short and sweet. What is this middle school program, you ask?  Head over to the newly formed UP page of the site for a detailed description, but here is a brief summary: Keep Friendship Alive will launch a modern and unconventional substance abuse prevention program next year for middle schoolers nationwide.  College students will serve as role models by visiting their local middle schools [...]

front page news

Thanks for the shout-out, Laguna Beach!  Check out my front page story: November 17, 2011 | By Cindy Frazier When Laguna Beach resident Erica Upshaw was rear-ended on South Coast Highway at Nyes Place in a seven-car pileup Sept. 22, she woke up in the hospital saying “Joey.” She was lucky to be alive and calling out her dead brother’s name after a drunk driver, who died days later at the hospital, hit her Mini Cooper at 50 mph. The [...]

on the road again

I have officially returned to my Fall tour, and I started things off with a bang Monday night by speaking to 2,500 students at Michigan State.  I’m getting a little choked up just thinking about it….I truly loved every second, especially the standing O! I have to admit, I was a little apprehensive to get back into the swing of things.  My traveling / speaking schedule is nutso, and I’ve been through the ringer these past few weeks: physically, emotionally, [...]

KFA’s future

Today is the 11th Annual Joe Upshaw Golf Classic benefiting Keep Friendship Alive in Columbus, OH.  I am SO BUMMED I’m not there today.  But, since I can barely move my head, I imagine it would be tough to take a car ride to the airport much less fly across the country.  Rest is in order, and I’m lucky to be alive.  (View the below article regarding my car accident last week…I was in the Mini Cooper.) Please read what [...]

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