Each year the Bristol County District Attorney's Office holds a teen safety summit. This year, the speaker list was especially impactful, because a Parkland school shooting survivor told teens about her first-hand experience.
With what happened in Texas on Tuesday, she hopes that her message will reach teens across Bristol County to prevent another tragedy like that from ever happening again.
Aliyah Vasquez was a freshman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, when a shooter opened fire on her and her classmates.
What started as a normal day quickly turned into Aliyah's worst nightmare.
She now uses her experiences from 2018 to educate students on the dangers of gun violence.
"With gun violence it should be shed more light on and it's a very important thing that is often not always emphasized," Vasquez told NBC 10 News.
Aliyah was just one of the impactful speakers at this year's teen summit.
April Funches, a community organizer for the district attorney's office said, "We thought it was important to bring teens and the adults who work with them together to learn a bunch of different things about issues that affect them and try to do it in a fun but educational kind of way."
About 100 kids participated in Wednesday's event.
They went through workshops to learn more about healthy relationships, the dangers of vaping, and ways to improve mental health.
Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn wants to expand the event next year so that more teens get to hear his message.
"Adults in the community care about them, and we want to help them, we're all going to make mistakes but we want to make them aware of the pitfalls that they face and try to steel them away from that," D.A. Quinn said.