Our opportunity to memorialize teens and young adults lost to drug poisoning, while helping to save our classmates.
Please consider helping, by lending your voice to memorialize any of the teens shown below. Just click any of the record buttons, read the memorial text of your choice, review recording, and click send. Listen to a sample audio tribute here: https://youtu.be/0WtOqyNpkYo
PLEASE do not use your last name, if you chose to record a tribute. First name and school name only.
This is not about perfect pronunciation or grammar. It is the power of your everyday voice, that will make a difference.
Audio recordings submitted to this resource will be played as audio announcements at school/community events and elsewhere, to assist in educating parents and teens to the dangers related to experimenting with pills, lines and other non-prescribed substances. See our Background/About page and Conditions of Use page, for complete information.
Colin Walker
Forever 17
Learn more about Colin at the following link. Link is to a video, for background information only. This is an audio only effort:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX1SY1pv3ZA
Hi, my name is (YOUR FIRST NAME), and I am a student at (YOUR SCHOOL'S NAME).
Colin Walker was just 17 years old, when he died from a deadly amount of fentanyl.
Colin loved playing sports, had lots of friends, and was always willing to help anyone with anything. He was adventurous, and enjoyed life to the fullest. His smile lit up any room he was in.
He loved his parents, older brother Aidan, and younger sister Kiera with all his heart.
He took special interest in helping kids who had different challenges, and volunteered in the special needs class.
In his freshman year he started using cannabis, which transitioned to experimenting with cocaine.
Unknowingly, he bought cocaine laced with fentanyl, and it killed him immediately.
Thank you parents, for talking to your children about the dangers of experimenting with drugs.
For the most current information on “having the talk”, please visit tribute4teens.org.
If you are a middle school, or high school student, and would be willing to record a one minute tribute like this one, for a student lost to drugs, please visit tribute4teens.org to get started.
That’s the word tribute, followed by the number 4, and teens.org.
Together, we will make a difference...
Sophia Humphreys
Forever 20
Learn more about Sophia at the following link. Link is to a video, for background information only. This is an audio only effort:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj6So-cY7fI
Hi, my name is (YOUR FIRST NAME), and I am a student at (YOUR SCHOOL'S NAME).
Sophia Humphreys was just 20 years old when she died from a fake prescription pill.
Sophia loved make-up, nails and hair. She graduated from Beauty College only days before her death.
Kids loved playing with Sophia, and they loved her silly side and red hair. She volunteered at Children’s Theater Productions doing make-up.
Sophia was full of kindness and wanted equality and fairness in all situations. She was fiercely loyal to her family and friends and loved to make everyone laugh.
She leaves behind her big brother, parents, grandparents, many aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. She is deeply loved and missed.
Sophia bought what she thought was the prescription pill Percocet off Snapchat, but it turned out to be a fake pill containing a deadly amount of Fentanyl.
After taking the pill, she never woke up.
Thank you parents, for talking to your children about the dangers of experimenting with drugs. For the most current information on
“having the talk”, please visit tribute4teens.org.
If you are a middle school, or high school student, and would be willing to record a one minute tribute like this one, for a student lost to drugs, please visit tribute4teens.org to get started.
That’s the word tribute, followed by the number 4, and teens.org.
Together, we will make a difference...
Tristain Christophersen
Forever 16
Learn more about Tristain at the following link. Link is to a video, for background information only. This is an audio only effort:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsx7UBJ5-dk&t=28s
Hi, my name is (YOUR FIRST NAME), and I am a student at (YOUR SCHOOL'S NAME).
Tristain Christophersen was just 16 years old when he died from a fake prescription pill.
Tristain was the best big brother ever. He loved to bake, cook, play video and board games, and cuddle with his cat Leo.
He was a 4.1 GPA Honor Roll student, who was very excited for college and his future.
Tristain leaves behind his little brother Johnny, his parents Angie and Jeremy, grandparents Roberta, Barb and Dennis, and many aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Tristain struggled for much of his life related to trauma and abandonment issues from his biological mother, whom he hadn’t seen in years. Mother’s Day was especially hard, and he was looking to numb some of the pain.
Tristain took what he thought was the prescription pill Percocet, but it turned out to be a fake pill containing a deadly amount of Fentanyl. His parents walked in on him unresponsive. He never woke up.
Thank you parents, for talking to your children about the dangers of experimenting with drugs. For the most current information on
“having the talk”, please visit tribute4teens.org.
If you are a middle school, or high school student, and would be willing to record a one minute tribute like this one, for a student lost to drugs, please visit tribute4teens.org to get started.
That’s the word tribute, followed by the number 4, and teens.org.
Together, we will make a difference...
Brianna Rodriguez
Forever 19
Learn more about Brianna at the following link. Link is to a video, for background information only. This is an audio only effort:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7vbzX9i-oU
Hi, my name is (YOUR FIRST NAME), and I am a student at (YOUR SCHOOL'S NAME).
Brianna Rodriguez was just 19 years old, when she died from a fake prescription pill.
Brianna loved sports, volleyball, track, and being a varsity cheerleader. She worked, and earned enough money to purchase her first car.
Brianna loved life and she had a bounce in her step when she walked.
She leaves behind 2 little brothers, Antonio 17 years old, and Colton eight years old. Brianna was Antonio's best friend. Also left behind was her mom Lisa, and Aunt Dianne, plus many more cousins who loved her.
Brianna suffered from anxiety and had trouble sleeping. She took what she believed was a Xanax pill, but it actually was a fake pill that contained fentanyl.
She spent her 20th birthday donating her organs.
Thank you parents, for talking to your children about the dangers of experimenting with drugs. For the most current information on “having the talk”, please visit tribute4teens.org.
If you are a middle school, or high school student, and would be willing to record a one minute tribute like this one, for a student lost to drugs, please visit tribute4teens.org, to get started.
That’s the word tribute, followed by the number 4, and teens.org.
Together, we will make a difference...
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