Exempla Lutheran Medical Center and the Lutheran Medical Center Community Foundation are joining the Ken-Caryl Ranch Foundation, on July 28th at The Meadows Golf Club/Littleton, to benefit the Caitlyn Craig Foundation's efforts to reduce auto crashes, the leading cause of teenage death, through school-based Alive at 25 programming.

The July 28th tournament, which is open to all players, will raise funds to help educate teenage drivers and reduce teen fatalities and also benefit the Ken-Caryl Ranch Foundation's long-standing annual college scholarship, and other educational and recreational programs in the community.

The tournament fee includes golf, cart, lunch, refreshments, and numerous prizes. Golfers and sponsors are welcome -- individual golfers $100, foursomes $375, hole sponsors $350 (includes two golfers), and event sponsorships are available for $1,500 which includes a foursome.As in the past, sponsorship of individual golfers or foursome is welcome for those unable to attend themselves.

Exempla Lutheran Medical Center, a teen driver safety advocate, plans to soon begin promoting Alive at 25, the 15-24 year old defensive driving program administered by the Colorado State Patrol, to family patients with teenagers at their new facilities at C-470 & Bowles, as well as at their medical clinic at The Peak Community and Wellness Center, owned by Foothills Parks and Recreation, 6612 S. Ward Street, Littleton.

Proceeds from the tournament will support the Alive at 25 teen driving program through the Caitlyn Craig Foundation (CCF). The CCF has presented its powerful teen driver safety assembly to more than 72,000 teenagers in 51 Colorado high schools that have offered the Alive at 25 program over the past two years. The CCF was created following a tragic car crash on Ken-Caryl Ranch in February 2003.

Alive at 25, a four-hour defensive driving class, is taught by off-duty law enforcement personnel, and focuses on the behaviors of driving and riding in a car unlike typical driver's education classes that focus on the mechanics of driving. The National Safety Council which named the Colorado State Patrol's Alive at 25 program the most improved driver safety program in America in 2005 accredits the class.

Class enrollment In Alive At 25 has soared more than 600% since the Caitlyn Craig Foundation began presenting assemblies at schools that agree to host the class for their students. The foundation also provides tuition assistance for students who voluntarily enroll in the class but cannot afford the $30 cost.

To register to golf or obtain sponsorship information, call Dan Ferguson at 303-979-6932, or Dick Taylor at 303-973-5299.

Bear Kay is public affairs information officer for Colorado State Patrol.