Former college and professional football player Keith Davis returns to Westlake High School Performing Arts Center for the third time by popular demand as the featured motivational speaker for the Safe Home Fall Program Tuesday at 7 p.m. titled “Wrong Voices. Wrong Choices.”

Davis, who amazes audiences with demonstrations of strength while driving home a message about the importance of teens abstaining form the use of drugs and alcohol, has been a featured speaker in 47 states, 40 countries and on ESPN, ABC, USA Today and Sports Illustrated.

Joining him on the program will be University of Texas Professor Lori K. Holleran Steiker whose presentation is titled “What to Say? What to Do? – Dealing with Peer Pressure.” An addictions therapist for more than 12 years, Steiker transitioned to research on adolescent substance abuse and prevention. Steiker helped design and evaluate the model Drug Resistance Strategies Project’s “Keepin’ It REAL” curriculum and is now studying culturally grounded adaptations of that curriculum for high-risk youth in community settings.

The program is free and open to the public. WHS students attending get community service hours (double if they bring at least one parent) and a free tardy pass.

Safe Homes was founded in 1997 as a nonprofit organization funded by local underwriters and parents of the Eanes school district taking a zero-tolerance approach to keeping alcohol and drugs out of the hands of children in our own homes.

The cornerstone of the program is a parental pledge not to serve or allow minors to consume alcohol or use drugs in their homes. Safe Homes presents free programs each year to the community to raise awareness and educate families about personal responsibility, teen choices and underage alcohol and drug use.

For more information about the Safe Homes mission or to become a Safe Home sponsor, contact Kent Redding 306-1001.