The assembly begins with jokes and a song about relationships among male and female adolescents. It next shifts into a discussion of common feelings and experiences among youth, particularly those whose parents are alcoholic, are experiencing separation or divorce, or are violent. He describes his own childhood, his father's desertion when he was age 3, and the alcoholism and spouse and child abuse perpetrated by one of this three stepfathers. He also describes how one of his high school peers appeared to be popular but died in a drunk-driving accident and how another student who was teased by other students committed suicide. He urges students to choose to take care of themselves, excel in one activity, and avoid pornography and other negative influences. He shows them a card with the toll-free telephone number of the I Care Hotline and urges students to call it if they have any kind of feeling problem they want to discuss.