These educational one-hour presentations reach thousands of students across the country with the aim to reduce impaired driving among young people by delivering a powerful message about its impact.
Road crashes are a leading cause of death among Canadian youth, with alcohol, cannabis and/or other drugs involved in over half of those crashes. MADD Canada has partnered with the NL Liquor Corporation and launched its 2024-2025 School Program. Dawn Regan is the Chief Operating Officer with MADD Canada. She says these life-saving and sober messages are delivered to intermediate and high school students. Regan says these educational one-hour presentations reach thousands of students across the country with the aim to reduce impaired driving among young people by delivering a powerful message about its impact. For more information go maddyouth.ca/school-program/.