Help Teens Create Positive Change
Help Teens Make a DifferenceTeens volunteer at twice the rate of adults. The Youth Volunteer Corps of America reports a quarter million volunteers have completed nearly 4 million hours of service in the U.S. and Canada. They are starting to become activists for teen driver safety. As their leading cause of death, car crashes are a serious issue facing teens. Teens can make a difference in their school and in their community by sharing important information and modeling safe driving behaviors. The 2011 theme was supporting parents in teaching their teens to drive. This includes helping them navigate the practice driving phase, as well as when their teens begin driving on their own. Fostering this bond translates to an increase in teen driver safety. According to research conducted by The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and State Farm Insurance Companies®, teens who say their parents set rules and monitor their driving in a helpful, supportive way are half as likely to crash and twice as likely to buckle up as teens with less involved parents. You may also want to encourage teens at your school or your community to conduct the Ride Like A Friend. Drive Like You Care. (RLAF) program. This teen-to-teen school campaign is designed to promote safe teen driver and passenger behavior. Teens can design their own program based on what they think will work best at their school. Although a RLAF campaign can be done at any time during the school year, many choose to conduct it during NTDSW. Learn more: |
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A good way to encourage teens to get involved is during National Teen Driver Safety Week (NTDSW) -- October 17-23, 2010, a time designated by Congress each year to raise awareness of teen driver safety topics and to encourage safe teen driver and passenger behavior. This year's theme: Reducing distractions.
To help you share information about reducing distractions with teens at your school or in your community, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and State Farm Insurance Companies® used research with teens to develop a PSA that gives teens a way to "park" their cell phones before they drive. The 30-second video [HYPERLINK TO PSA} is based on a key reason teens cite for not talking or texting while driving –the need to focus on driving. [HYPERLINK to http://www.teendriverssource.org/news/article/34/new_research_shows_a_positive_approach_may_be_best_to_curb_teen_drivers_cell_phone_use].
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>A good way to encourage teens to get involved is during National Teen Driver Safety Week (NTDSW) -- October 17-23, 2010, a time designated by Congress each year to raise awareness of teen driver safety topics and to encourage safe teen driver and passenger behavior. This year's theme: Reducing distractions.
To help you share information about reducing distractions with teens at your school or in your community, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and State Farm Insurance Companies® used research with teens to develop a PSA that gives teens a way to "park" their cell phones before they drive. The 30-second video [HYPERLINK TO PSA} is based on a key reason teens cite for not talking or texting while driving –the need to focus on driving. [HYPERLINK to http://www.teendriverssource.org/news/article/34/new_research_shows_a_positive_approach_may_be_best_to_curb_teen_drivers_cell_phone_use].
You may also want to encourage teens at your school or your community to conduct the Ride Like A Friend. Drive Like You Care. (RLAF) program. This teen-to-teen school campaign is designed to promote safe teen driver and passenger behavior. Teens can design their own program based on what they think will work best at their school. Although a RLAF campaign can be done at any time during the school year, many choose to conduct it during NTDSW.
To receive RLAF support and updates, join the RLAF Network.
You may also want to encourage teens at your school or your community to conduct the Ride Like A Friend. Drive Like You Care. (RLAF) program. This teen-to-teen school campaign is designed to promote safe teen driver and passenger behavior. Teens can design their own program based on what they think will work best at their school. Although a RLAF campaign can be done at any time during the school year, many choose to conduct it during NTDSW.
To receive RLAF support and updates, join the RLAF Network
