MADDNORTH CAROLINA

Your CAS Leader is Jenna Leissnercpcmadd@gmail.com or 252-349-0813. Please welcome her and the MADD team.

Updated July 29th

Greetings!

We have lots of exciting things going on in our MADD CAS that we wanted to share with everyone! We have started court monitoring in the following courts: Pamlico County, Craven County and Havelock, NC. We are currently attending court on a regular basis we started July 28th in Craven County.

We are working on an end of year banquet for our law enforcement officers who have been involved with our CAS as well as honor those who have worked diligently to keep our roads safe from drunk drivers.

Our Events:

August 3rd - New Bern's "National Night Out" at Union Point Park from 5PM-8:30PM.We will have an obstacle course and games (hand and eye coordination) for participants to use while wearing the drunk goggles, handing out ribbons, stickers, candy, and lots of information about our MADD CAS.

August 10th - Our MADD Meeting will be at the NBPD Mall Substation. 7PM. This is a great time to discuss concerns with MADD CAS Members and have them heard as well as learn more about what our organization is doing in our county! We try to keep the meetings to 1hr or 1 1/2 hr.

August 24th-Our MADD Meeting will be at Jones County with the NC MADD State Executive Director, Craig lloyd! We will assist local Jones County law enforcement agencies in holding a MADD Interest meeting. Details to follow!

DWI News Article

Take a look at this news article http://www.jdnews.com/news/officials-80685-firecracker-carolina.html

To view Craven County's results look at the full report. Way to go LEO!

Keep up the awesome work,

MADD CAS Leader - Jenna

Just wanted to pass along some valuable information about what MADD is doing within our government! Jenna

Dear Craven Pamlico,

I just wanted to keep you in the loop on two of our top priorities: the fight to eliminate drunk driving and our efforts to serve victims of drunk driving.

It has been a good couple of weeks in federal anti-drunk driving legislation. Two weeks ago, the House Energy and Commerce committee passed an amendment that would fund research into advanced technology that would prevent cars from being driven drunk for five years. Yesterday, the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation passed that same amendment. You can see details here.

In that five years, DADSS, which is a cooperative venture between the automakers, researchers, and the federal government and supported by MADD, believes they will have multiple technologies that will be accurate, reliable, inexpensive, voluntary, passive (that is, we won't even know the technology is there unless we should't be driving), and set at the illegal limit of .08 BAC. In short, this technology will eliminate drunk driving.

It looks like we could have this legislation passed by early July. We are also pushing for legislation that would require states to mandate ignition interlocks for all drunk driving offenders; please click here to email your senators about this bill.

For victim services, we have exciting news as well. We have our final tally from all 50 states and, in 2009, MADD served over 57,000 victims and survivors of drunk driving -- one every 10 minutes on average. While our goal is to make sure no victim goes without MADD's services like emotional support, court accompaniment, and other resources, this is a 109% increase from 2003.

All of these services are possible due to your support and the support of people like you. If you'd like to help, your $17 monthly donation can provide that vital first hour of services to someone impacted by drunk driving. Or, if you would like, you can also donate to your local office here.

Thank you for reading and for your support!

Yours,
Laura Dean-Mooney
MADD National President

This is just a friendly reminder about the upcoming MADD meeting at Trinity United Methodist Church on Tuesday, June 8th. Our meeting will begin promptly at 7 pm. We will be discussing several topics such as an upcoming checking station with Havelock PD, National Night Out and meeting dates/times/locations. Please join us to hear about our last fundraiser and checking station with NBPD!

I look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday!

Did you see the Letter to the Editor in the Sun Journal yesterday? Thanks Bob Shields for spreading the word about MADD. We will continue to have letters written to the editor that will push the issues in Craven County with DWI/Underage Consumption/Substance Abuse.

Please join us on Tuesday, February 9th at 7:00 pm for MADD. We will listen to two speakers: a brief presentation from the NC MADD State Director and one man's journey through the court system as a DWI offender. We will prepare for an upcoming Checkpoint as well as discuss our court monitoring plans. We meet at Trinity United Methodist Church on the corner of Elizabeth Ave and Simmons Street.

We would love to have as many law enforcement agencies represented and/or attend since we will be discussing court monitoring in our court rooms.

Bring a friend, coworker, family member, or neighbor!

I look forward to seeing you tomorrow,

Jenna Leissner

February 3rd and 4th

MADD will be training members to perform court monitoring and will be attending court on February 4th. If you have court on this day or want to participate in the training, please reply to this email or contact me at 252.876.5406.

Training Times:

Feb 3rd 5 pm-8 pm

Feb 4th 9 am-until

Thanks,

Jenna

Jenna H Leissner, Craven Pamlico Chair
cpcmadd@gmail.com

What a successful event! MADD volunteers helped collect prescription pills for safe disposal on Saturday(11-14-09) at 3 local Food Lions. We were also able to spread the word about our newly formed CAS(Community Action Site). We handed out lots of pamphlets and reconnected with some old MADD members! Check out the article in the Sun Journal by using the link below.

Our next MADD meeting will be Tuesday,November 24th 7PM. Location: Fraternal Order of Police (FOP); Glenbernie Road (Behind the China Buffet, across the street from Harris Teeter). We have a full agenda which includes, updates on upcoming Christmas Parades, meeting with the District Attorney Scott Thomas, T-Shirts, upcoming checkpoints and much more!

Remember- the stories are running each night this week with the first three on their website at the link above.

If you view Getting Caught, our Craven/Jones County line Checkpoint is at the end of this segment. In the spotlight, Sgt. Willis and Carrie Dixon!

Our next MADD meeting will be at the West New Bern Fire Department at 900 Chelsea Road (in the Trent Woods area) on Tuesday, October 27th at 7 PM. We look forward to seeing you there.

See all the exciting things we have going on! Here are the minutes from our last meeting Click Here.

Thanks again to all of our officers and MADD members who participated in this event!

We are your dads, daughters, sons, uncles, friends, neighbors and students! We are all ages and from all walks of life.

Please come join us at our MADD Meeting each 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month at 7 PM. Our MADD meetings are held at the NEW Bern Police Dept Mall Substation inside the New Bern Mall.

If you want to Make changes in our community about alcohol related crashes, victim services, educational programs and/or laws, this is an event you do not want to miss! Please contact me (see above)