Safer Rhodes In 2024

Youth Driven is a traffic safety and leadership program that is led the Rhode Island Student Assistance Services (RISAS) and supported by the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT), Office On Highway Safety. Youth Driven is a year round RI high school program & it begins with an educational summer summit. Every high school that attends the summit creates an action plan for the upcoming school year, focused around traffic safety. The mission of Youth Driven is to provide Rhode Island youth and their adult advisors with the motivation, information, skills and support necessary to organize events and activities that support Traffic Safety efforts within their communities. Safety campaigns targeting distracted driving, impaired driving, and speeding, as well as, alcohol and drug free prevention strategies are examples of planned topic areas to be covered. Visit: www.youthdriven.org or contact youthdrivenri@gmail.com.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving was founded in 1980 by a mother whose daughter was killed by a drunk driver, Mothers Against Drunk Driving® (MADD) is the nation’s largest nonprofit working to end drunk driving, help fight drugged driving, support the victims of these violent crimes and prevent underage drinking. MADD has helped to save more than 400,000 lives, reduce drunk driving deaths by more than 50 percent and promote designating a non-drinking driver. MADD’s Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving® calls for law enforcement support, ignition interlocks for all offenders and advanced vehicle technology. MADD has provided supportive services to nearly one million drunk and drugged driving victims and survivors at no charge through local victim advocates and the 24-Hour Victim Help Line 1-877-MADD-HELP. Visit www.madd.org or contact ri.state@madd.org.

Tori Lynn Andreozzi Foundation

On March 26, 2003, a hit-and-run drunk driver forever changed the lives of 12-year-old Tori Lynn Andreozzi and all those who love her. Although Tori was never the same little girl who left for school that morning, out of this devastating and totally preventable tragedy came her foundation. The Tori Lynn Andreozzi Foundation works to empower people to make good choices, protect other families from the devastating consequences of poor decision-making, and, for those whom it can’t protect, tries to make a difficult journey easier. Recognizing that there is a choice in every moment, finding the courage to make a difference, and sustaining hope for the future. Visit www.torilynnfoundation.org or contact info@torilynnfoundation.org.