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MISSION STATEMENT
The Ed4Ed mission is to provide aid to be shared free of cost with all who care for youth.  The single goal is elimination of youth dying and suffering grave injury due to a simple lack of knowledge. These senseless tragedies can be prevented.  This will be accomplished through awareness of and education about emerging youth risk behavior trends. 
To be effective the program must be efficient, flexible, adaptable, accessible, easy to use and offered freely.  
       Stop the Choking Game
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We have added access on our Other Resources page to our research library which contains information on topics including Emo, Pharm Parties, inhalants and the Choking Game.
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Effective 12/31/2024 Ed4Ed will be dissolved as a 501  (c) (3) entity.  We appreciate the support of Ed4Ed over the years.  Please continue to donate to and support other organizations in their efforts to raise awareness of risky and often deadly adolescent behaviors.  
This organization is dedicated to those young people who have been needlessly injured or killed  as a result of participating in behaviors without adequate information concerning the risks they are taking.  We as a group are aware of about 1,200 such young people and the number is increasing steadily.  To prevent these senseless tragedies,
Education is the essential element:
  • Understanding Choices
  • Weighing Chances
  • Evaluating potential outcomes - Benefits vs, Risk in guiding our youth to healthy choices ushering in bright futures. Scientific research and professionals concur:  Youth will take risks.  Scientific research based on youth studies conclude:  Knowledge is the single factor that determines the risks they will choose to take.  Risk experimentation ends in needless tragedy and experience is not the best teacher.
Many of our members have been personally affected by these behaviors which include but are not limited to "The Choking Game'. Emo, Dusting and Pharm Parties.
View below Ed4Ed's current statistics on the Choking Game and relevant studies.  Page through the slides using the arrows and Mouse over the icons on the bottom to see the other features available.
The video below is an interview conducted by KING 5 in Seattle, WA regarding TCG with Outreach Director Ken Tork.
Choking game: Sun Prairie mother raising alarm about dangerous online trend.
​Click on link below to watch the video

Michelle Servi lost her 16-year-old son Jack in 2016 after an attempt at the choking game went badly wrong.
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Updated     12/09/2024
October is Worldwide
Choking Game Awareness Month.
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Compassionate Friends International Candle Lighting
7:00PM - December 8, 2024
The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting on the 2nd Sunday in December unites family and friends around the globe in lighting candles for one hour to honor the memories of the sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, and grandchildren who left too soon. ​  More
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This string of beads represents children who have been lost to the choking activities.  Used in presentations by Ed4Ed Director Debbie LaRacque, Kelly’s mom uses a strand of beads in her presentations. Each bead represents a victim of the choking game since the death of her son in 2006. More beads are added as more victims are reported. With the name and age of victims marked on each bead, the lengthening strand becomes a powerful visual aid for presentations.
Below watch an excellent video created by Ken Tork, Outreach Director of Ed4Ed about the terrible activity known as, among other things, the Choking Game. The video is about 13 minutes long.
Ed4Ed's own Outreach Director, Ken Tork, has recently been added as a trainer on Train My Crew   Ken's course provides information regarding the Choking Game.  Click this link to go to the site.
Train My Crew by Wilmes, LLC offers safety, risk management and loss control courses online.
The fox News segment above was broadcast in December, 2005 following the deaths resulting from TCG in January of Nick Serna and in May of Braden Erickson.