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| Sober and Safe (SOS) Project | |
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SOS is a county-wide high school education program that addresses safe driving issues through educational programming and dissemination of media messages to encourage safe and sober driving, promote seatbelt use and eliminate cellphone/texting use while driving. The funding will be used to deliver best practice prevention education and implement youth development and leadership strategies to increase youth awareness of how alcohol and drugs impact driving safety and motivate them to practice safe driving behaviors, thus reducing alcohol-related incidents involving high school age youth. Some participating schools will receive a single intervention, while others (where there are fewer resources available or students are at higher risk) will participate in additional activities. |
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| California Drivers License Companion Cards - distributed to all High School Students across Mendocino County: | |
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| Posters displayed at Junior and Senior High Schools across Mendocino County during the month of April, 2011.The Federal government has designated April as Alcohol Awareness Month; an annual national awareness campaign that empowers local communities to focus on alcoholism, alcohol-related issues and underage drinking. | |
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| Steer Clear | |
| A comprehensive package of services originally developed to address youth driving safety. Program elements include prevention education, media, alternative activities, youth development and leadership strategies delivered on and off high school campuses. All program elements work together to help raise youth and community awareness of how alcohol and other drugs impact driving safety with the overall goal of reducing youthful fatalities, collisions and drunk driving. | |
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| For more information: www.ots.ca.gov | www.chp.ca.gov | www.nhtsa.gov | www.madd.org | www.b4udrink.org | http://www.friendsdrivesober.org | ||||||||
Youth Summit — Reality Check 2008 On Tuesday, April 08, 2008, the Mendocino County Workforce Investment Board's Youth Council in collaboration with Mendocino County Health and Human Services Agency, Public Health Branch, Division of Alcohol and Other Drugs, Youth Services, held a daylong event at Todd Grove Park in Ukiah for 40 high school youth.
"Reality Check" offered students the opportunity to participate in an exercise that was designed to demonstrate the experience and potential consequences of drinking and driving. Students attempted to navigate an obstacle course while driving a golf cart, while wearing .fatal vision' goggles. A CHP officer was in the passenger seat at all times. The driving exercise was followed by the CHP administering a field sobriety test (FST). "Reality Check" also included presentations from Judge LaCasse, Deputy District Attorney Matt Hubley and Probation Hearing Officer Laura Levin. Martin Martinez who was affected by an impaired driver also spoke. Youth summit participants entered a contest and created a Blog, Poem or Poster that is being used to educate their peers about what they learned from driving impaired. Funding for this program was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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