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IMPAIRED DRIVING
Program Materials

NEW - 1998 Youth Fatal Crash and Alcohol Facts* takes a comprehensive look at the role of alcohol in crashes involving teens and young adults. It examines what has worked to bring about a decade-long decline in alcohol-related crashes in this age group, and analyzes statistics and trends over the past five years. This booklet has an interior pocket filled with reproducible charts. Available April/May 2000.

11,000 by 2005 - Partners in Progress: An Impaired Driving Guide for Action (1) explains the ambitious anti-impaired driving initiative with the goal of reducing alcohol-related fatalities to no more than 11,000 per year by 2005. The guide identifies strategies, action steps, potential partners and more in helping local communities join with this national effort. (September 1997, DOT HS 808 365A, Item #2P1035).

NEW - D.E.A.D. - Drinking & Driving Ends All Dreams: "Shattered Dreams," A Guide for Program Planners describes a comprehensive high school impaired driving prevention program. School districts often plan single-event programs such as mock auto crashes, mock trials, mock funerals, and assemblies with speakers. This planner features these activities and more to cover a two-day period, and has a follow-up activity several months after the event. In addition, an overnight leadership retreat for the student volunteers representing those who died simulates for students and their families the experience of their being gone after a death. At the retreat, counselors and other mental health professionals help students process their experiences. (September 1999, DOT HS 808 976, Item #2P1069)

Develop and Test Messages to Deter Drinking and Driving is a report from a series of focus groups conducted in 1998 with both underage teens and young adults of legal drinking age. The message strategies that tested best can be incorporated into local public information campaigns and materials. (June 1998, DOT HS 808 726, Item #7P0096)

Impaired Perspectives: Alcohol on America's Highways offers a general introduction to the problem of impaired driving in America. It discusses the seriousness of the problems, the offenders and what you can do to deter impaired drivers. (May 1998, DOT HS 808 211, Item #2P1004)

Presidential Initiative for Making .08 BAC the National Legal Limit is a booklet that describes the goals set by President Clinton and U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Rodney E. Slater related to BAC limits. (August 1998, DOT HS 808 756, Item #2P1054)

The Relationship of Alcohol Safety Laws to Drinking Drivers in Fatal Crashes is a study which analyzes the relationships between the passage of key alcohol safety laws and the number of drinking drivers in fatal crashes. It's available on the Web at www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/alcohol/limit.08/voas08/alcoholsafety.html .

Retail Oriented Best Practices for Underage Drinking Prevention outlines successful efforts such as "Cops in Shops," seller and server training, and underage enforcement efforts. It details more than 20 programs in more than a dozen states with cost information, ideas and evaluation techniques. (August 1997, DOT HS 808 618, Item #2P1037)

Setting Limits, Saving Lives: The Case for .08 BAC Laws covers the basic facts on lower legal limits for blood alcohol concentration (BAC), how these laws save lives, success stories from the U.S. and other countries, a model law, and ideas on how to generate support for public policies in your state. (January 1997, DOT HS 808 524, Item #2P0038)

NEW - Strategies for Success: Combating Juvenile DUI contains information on effective criminal justice system strategies for dealing with impaired driving offenses by juveniles. It places particular emphasis on the roles of police officials, prosecutors and judges. This report was produced by the Police Executive Research Forum from an inter-agency demonstration project between NHTSA and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. (August 1999, DOT HS 808 845, Item #2P1058)

Saving Teenage Lives: The Case for Graduated Driver Licensing covers the basic facts on graduated driver licensing, how these laws save lives, success stories from the U.S. and other countries, a model law, and ideas on how to generate support for similar policies in your state. (November 1998, DOT HS 808 801, Item #2P1043)

The Use of Sobriety Checkpoints for Impaired Driving Enforcement is a training video that provides law enforcement commanders with guidelines for conducting sobriety checkpoints safely and effectively. Topics such as public information, site selection, special signs and devices, judicial support and data collection and evaluation are also addressed. (April 1999, Beta SP: Item #2A0120, VHS: Item #2A0121)

The Visual Detection of DWI Motorists is primarily for law enforcement officers to improve their ability to identify impaired drivers. The information could also be useful in recruiting Neighborhood Watch and other citizen groups to report suspected impaired drivers to police. (March 1998, DOT HS 808 677, Item #2P1048)

NEW - Sentencing and Dispositions of Youth DUI and Other Alcohol Offenses: A Guide for Judges and Prosecutors is a guide to the range of available options for action when dealing with juvenile and youth alcohol-related offenses. In addition to describing the system for alcohol-related underage offenders, it shows the potential payoffs of working cooperatively with related administrative agencies, such as motor vehicle departments, as well as community organizations. (August 1998, DOT HS 808 845, Item #2P1068)

Sentencing and Dispositions of Youth DUI and Other Alcohol Offenses: A Guide for Judges and Prosecutors (Youth Sanctions Guide) provides suggestions for criminal justice personnel, particularly judges and prosecutors, on sanctioning alternatives for youthful impaired offenders. Youthful offenders, particularly juveniles, have special needs and different legal requirements than adult offenders. (September 1999, DOT HS 808 891, Item #2P1061)

You Drink & Drive. You Lose. Campaign Kit contains support materials for America's new impaired driving prevention campaign. You Drink & Drive. You Lose. was developed as the voice of the new national partnership aimed at intensifying the fight against impaired driving. It serves as a framework for a comprehensive set of tools to use as we all work together to acheive the 11,000 by 2005 goal. (December 1999, Item #2P1072)

See also the "Pedestrian Safety" (page 9) and "Motorcycle Safety" (page 13) sections for additional materials.

Consumer Materials

.08 BAC Saves Lives: Why Every State Needs a .08 Law presents information for concerned citizens about .08 BAC laws. This quick and easy-to-read brochure includes information about laws in different states and sorts out the misconceptions and realities about .08 BAC. (1997, DOT HS 808 681, Item #2P1005)

11,000 by 2005 Partners in Progress: A National Initiative on Impaired Driving brochure outlines the Partners in Progress initiative and provides ideas for individual and organizational involvement in this initiative. (September 1998, DOT HS 808 779, Item #2P1035)

Let the Zodiac Wheel Help Steer You in the Best Direction is a 11"x17" color paper placemat depicting the Chinese zodiac symbols and the attributes of people born under them. This whimsical piece offers helpful messages regarding impaired driving, on one side in English and the other in Chinese. Developed in cooperation with the Organization of Chinese Americans, Inc. (September 1999, Item #2P1025)



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		IMPAIRED DRIVING Program Materials NEW - 1998 Youth Fatal Crash and Alcohol Facts* takes a comprehensive look at the role of alcohol in crashes involving teens and young adults. It examines what has worked to bring about a decade-long decline in alcohol-related crashes in this age group, and analyzes statistics and trends over the past five years. This booklet has an interior pocket filled with reproducible charts. Available April/May 2000. 11,000 by 2005 - Partners in Progress: An Impaired Driving Guide for Action (1) explains the ambitious anti-impaired driving initiative with the goal of reducing alcohol-related fatalities to no more than 11,000 per year by 2005. The guide identifies strategies, action steps, potential partners and more in helping local communities join with this national effort. (September 1997, DOT HS 808 365A, Item #2P1035). NEW - D.E.A.D. - Drinking & Driving Ends All Dreams: "Shattered Dreams," A Guide for Program Planners describes a comprehensive high school impaired driving prevention program. School districts often plan single-event programs such as mock auto crashes, mock trials, mock funerals, and assemblies with speakers. This planner features these activities and more to cover a two-day period, and has a follow-up activity several months after the event. In addition, an overnight leadership retreat for the student volunteers representing those who died simulates for students and their families the experience of their being gone after a death. At the retreat, counselors and other mental health professionals help students process their experiences. (September 1999, DOT HS 808 976, Item #2P1069) Develop and Test Messages to Deter Drinking and Driving is a report from a series of focus groups conducted in 1998 with both underage teens and young adults of legal drinking age. The message strategies that tested best can be incorporated into local public information campaigns and materials. (June 1998, DOT HS 808 726, Item #7P0096) Impaired Perspectives: Alcohol on America's Highways offers a general introduction to the problem of impaired driving in America. It discusses the seriousness of the problems, the offenders and what you can do to deter impaired drivers. (May 1998, DOT HS 808 211, Item #2P1004) Presidential Initiative for Making .08 BAC the National Legal Limit is a booklet that describes the goals set by President Clinton and U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Rodney E. Slater related to BAC limits. (August 1998, DOT HS 808 756, Item #2P1054) The Relationship of Alcohol Safety Laws to Drinking Drivers in Fatal Crashes is a study which analyzes the relationships between the passage of key alcohol safety laws and the number of drinking drivers in fatal crashes. It's available on the Web at www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/alcohol/limit.08/voas08/alcoholsafety.html . Retail Oriented Best Practices for Underage Drinking Prevention outlines successful efforts such as "Cops in Shops," seller and server training, and underage enforcement efforts. It details more than 20 programs in more than a dozen states with cost information, ideas and evaluation techniques. (August 1997, DOT HS 808 618, Item #2P1037) Setting Limits, Saving Lives: The Case for .08 BAC Laws covers the basic facts on lower legal limits for blood alcohol concentration (BAC), how these laws save lives, success stories from the U.S. and other countries, a model law, and ideas on how to generate support for public policies in your state. (January 1997, DOT HS 808 524, Item #2P0038) *NEW - Strategies for Success: Combating Juvenile DUI* contains information on effective criminal justice system strategies for dealing with impaired driving offenses by juveniles. It places particular emphasis on the roles of police officials, prosecutors and judges. This report was produced by the Police Executive Research Forum from an inter-agency demonstration project between NHTSA and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. (August 1999, DOT HS 808 845, Item #2P1058) Saving Teenage Lives: The Case for Graduated Driver Licensing covers the basic facts on graduated driver licensing, how these laws save lives, success stories from the U.S. and other countries, a model law, and ideas on how to generate support for similar policies in your state. (November 1998, DOT HS 808 801, Item #2P1043) The Use of Sobriety Checkpoints for Impaired Driving Enforcement is a training video that provides law enforcement commanders with guidelines for conducting sobriety checkpoints safely and effectively. Topics such as public information, site selection, special signs and devices, judicial support and data collection and evaluation are also addressed. (April 1999, Beta SP: Item #2A0120, VHS: Item #2A0121) The Visual Detection of DWI Motorists is primarily for law enforcement officers to improve their ability to identify impaired drivers. The information could also be useful in recruiting Neighborhood Watch and other citizen groups to report suspected impaired drivers to police. (March 1998, DOT HS 808 677, Item #2P1048) NEW *- Sentencing and Dispositions of Youth DUI and Other Alcohol Offenses: A Guide for Judges and Prosecutors* is a guide to the range of available options for action when dealing with juvenile and youth alcohol-related offenses. In addition to describing the system for alcohol-related underage offenders, it shows the potential payoffs of working cooperatively with related administrative agencies, such as motor vehicle departments, as well as community organizations. (August 1998, DOT HS 808 845, Item #2P1068) Sentencing and Dispositions of Youth DUI and Other Alcohol Offenses: A Guide for Judges and Prosecutors (Youth Sanctions Guide) provides suggestions for criminal justice personnel, particularly judges and prosecutors, on sanctioning alternatives for youthful impaired offenders. Youthful offenders, particularly juveniles, have special needs and different legal requirements than adult offenders. (September 1999, DOT HS 808 891, Item #2P1061) You Drink & Drive. You Lose. Campaign Kit contains support materials for America's new impaired driving prevention campaign. You Drink & Drive. You Lose. was developed as the voice of the new national partnership aimed at intensifying the fight against impaired driving. It serves as a framework for a comprehensive set of tools to use as we all work together to acheive the 11,000 by 2005 goal. (December 1999, Item #2P1072) See also the "Pedestrian Safety" (page 9) and "Motorcycle Safety" (page 13) sections for additional materials. Consumer Materials .08 BAC Saves Lives: Why Every State Needs a .08 Law presents information for concerned citizens about .08 BAC laws. This quick and easy-to-read brochure includes information about laws in different states and sorts out the misconceptions and realities about .08 BAC. (1997, DOT HS 808 681, Item #2P1005) 11,000 by 2005 Partners in Progress: A National Initiative on Impaired Driving brochure outlines the Partners in Progress initiative and provides ideas for individual and organizational involvement in this initiative. (September 1998, DOT HS 808 779, Item #2P1035) Let the Zodiac Wheel Help Steer You in the Best Direction is a 11"x17" color paper placemat depicting the Chinese zodiac symbols and the attributes of people born under them. This whimsical piece offers helpful messages regarding impaired driving, on one side in English and the other in Chinese. Developed in cooperation with the Organization of Chinese Americans, Inc. (September 1999, Item #2P1025)