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Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving

Your child might be too young to drink. Your child might even be too young to drive. But your child is still at risk. Drunk driving is one of the nation’s deadliest crimes—killing more than 13,000 children, parents, grandparents, neighbors and friends every year. That’s why MADD has launched the Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving – a bold program with the ambitious, but attainable goal of eliminating drunk driving once and for all. By mobilizing a network of affiliates, like-minded organizations and volunteers like you, we’re working to protect your children by taking the fight against drunk driving to an unprecedented level through:
  1. High-visibility law enforcement, including sobriety checkpoints
  2. Ignition interlock devices for all convicted drunk drivers
  3. Advanced vehicle technologies that will prevent drunk driving
  4. Grassroots support
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Why 21?

Visit Why21.org to learn more about the 21 Minimum Drinking Age law and how it saves lives. Find out how alcohol affects the teen brain, the realities of underage drinking, common myths about and a history of the drinking age law. Learn More

Social Host

Thinking about hosting a party where youth under 21 have access to alcohol? Think again. Social host liability refers to laws that hold individuals responsible for underage drinking events on property they own, lease or otherwise control. Unlike laws that prohibit furnishing alcohol to youth under 21, social host laws focus on preventing underage drinking on private property without regard to who furnishes the alcohol. Learn More

AlcoholEdu for High School

AlcoholEdu for High School is a Web-based course that incorporates proven prevention techniques with essential science-based alcohol education. Learn more


Multimedia School Shows

If your child likes movies, music and fast-paced video, then your child will love MADD’s multimedia school assembly shows. And you’ll love that the shows educate students on alcohol and other drug prevention, brain research on the effects of alcohol on the adolescent brain, and the need for student leadership and activism. Find out more about the elementary and secondary school shows and how you can get a MADD show in your child’s school. Learn more


Protecting You/Protecting Me

The risk for alcohol and other drug use skyrockets when children enter grade 6. MADD’s Protecting You/Protecting Me program reaches children in grades 1-5 with information on how to make safe and smart decision about alcohol. Find out how you can get the program in your child’s school. Learn more


THINK

Think about it: your kids are constantly faced with the decision to drink alcohol. THINK!—MADD’s year-round campaign that helps teens avoid underage drinking—encourages teens to pledge to stay alcohol- and drug-free throughout the school year and beyond. Found out how to bring THINK! to your teen’s school. Learn more


UMADD

Worried about the party life on you’re child’s college campus? So are the student-led UMADD chapters that work to address the underage drinking, high-risk drinking and impaired driving on college campuses. Find out more about UMADD and how to get a UMADD chapter on your child’s college campus. Learn more


Walk Like MADD

Looking for something fun and active to do with your kids? We have just the thing. Walk Like MADD is a family friendly, noncompetitive 5K walk that helps raise funds and awareness for MADD’s programs and services that make your community safer. Most events feature a kid’s zone, health and safety fair and a victim/survivor tribute area. Find out how you can participate. Learn more


Youth In Action

Youth In Action is not the “Just say no” of your generation. Youth In Action is a community-based program that empowers young people in preventing underage drinking through projects that focus on reducing underage access to alcohol by targeting social and retail access, and working with law enforcement to support the enforcement of underage drinking laws. Learn more