NCJ Number
108929
Date Published
1985
Length
29 pages
Annotation
This manual provides a systematic framework to help community leaders plan a comprehensive youth highway safety program to reduce alcohol-related injuries and fatalities.
Abstract
Underlying principles of the action strategies and model programs emphasize citizen support, a community focus, a systems approach, financial self-sufficiency, deterrence, and prevention and intervention. Activities to aid in achieving these goals through education, information, and role modeling are provided for school administrators and teachers, physicians, youth, legislative and other public officials, judges, parents, employers, media personnel, food and beverage industry personnel, pharmacists, attorneys, law enforcement personnel, and community driving-under-the-influence of safety restraint committees and task forces. A step-by-step guide for organizing a youth conference on drinking and highway safety also is provided. Finally, seven model programs are described. Three are designed to deter alcohol-impaired driving by providing information on alcohol effects and emphasizing peer pressure, assertiveness, decisionmaking, and alternatives to drinking and driving. A fourth program trains teenagers to be instructors of an alcohol-awareness unit for fifth graders, and also incorporated community education and peer listening. The last three involve youth in activities to prevent health and social problems, including alcohol abuse. Listings of information resources and fund-raising ideas are included.