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  1. Youth
  2. High School Student
  3. College Student
  4. Adults
  5. Auxiliary Group for Law Enforcement
  6. Law Enforcement Leader
  7. Law Enforcement Officer

Youth

  • Talk to legislators about passing ignition interlock legislation
  • Sign the Campaign pledge
  • Join your local Youth in Action team
  • If your community doesn’t have one, start a Youth in Action team in your are
  • Talk to legislators about passing sobriety checkpoints legislation in “non-sobriety checkpoint” states 
  • Participate in a Strides For Change event
  • Post info/poster in community

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High School Students

  • Join your local Youth in Action team
  • If your community doesn’t have one, start a Youth in Action team in your area
  • Talk to legislators about passing sobriety checkpoints legislation in “non-sobriety checkpoint” states 
  • Talk to legislators about passing ignition interlock legislation
  • Encourage school districts officials and city council members to sign the CEDD pledge
  • Participate in Strides For Change and Sobriety Checkpoint events
  • Support high-visibility enforcement through stories on Channel One
  • Promote the Campaign in school publications
  • Add the Campaign on your My Space page

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College Student

  • Join your campus’ UMADD team
  • If your university doesn’t have one, start a UMADD chapter on your campus
  • Lobby legislators about passing ignition interlock legislation
  • Lobby legislators about passing sobriety checkpoints legislation in “non-sobriety checkpoint” states
  • Write letters to the editor or editorials for your local newspapers
  • Encourage university officials and trustees to sign the CEDD pledge
  • Support law enforcement when they conduct sobriety checkpoints
  • Participate in Strides For Change and Sobriety Checkpoint events
  • Promote the Campaign in campus publications
  • Develop Public Service Announcements about high-visibility enforcement and underage drinking penalties
  • Add the Campaign on your My Space page
  • Publicize Campaign on campus radio and in campus and community newspapers

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Adults

  • Volunteer at your local MADD chapter
  • If your community doesn’t have one, get other concerned citizens together and form a Community Action Site.
  • Lobby legislators about passing ignition interlock legislation
  • Lobby legislators about passing sobriety checkpoints legislation in “non-sobriety checkpoint” states
  • Write letters to the editor or editorials for your local newspapers
  • Support law enforcement when they conduct sobriety checkpoints
  • Participate in Strides For Change and Sobriety Checkpoint events
  • Promote the Campaign in campus publications
  • Add the Campaign on your My Space page
  • Publicize the Campaign on local radio and in community newspapers

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Auxiliary Group for Law Enforcement

  • Invest in MADD local affiliate to continue MADD’s mission
  • Participate in a Strides For Change event
  • Recognize fallen and injured officers on MADD’s online victim tribute for law enforcement officers
  • Lobby legislators about passing ignition interlock legislation
  • Auxiliary groups sign the CEED pledge 
  • Encourage auxiliary members to be MADD volunteer court monitors
  • Support law enforcement when they conduct sobriety checkpoints
  • Conduct sobriety checkpoints and saturation points during peak drinking seasons
  • Include Campaign info in publications
  • Distribute MADD Tie One on For Safety red ribbons
  • Serve as adult coordinators for Youth in Action teams 

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Law Enforcement Leader

  • Make traffic enforcement a priority for your agency.
  • Use a family/health/safety angle when addressing diverse communities for high-visibility enforcement efforts
  • Conduct sobriety checkpoints and saturation points during peak drinking seasons
  • Lobby legislators about passing ignition interlock legislation
  • Lobby legislators about passing sobriety checkpoints legislation in “non-sobriety checkpoint” states
  • Go to Law Enforcement to see best practices in DUI and underage drinking enforcement
  • Recognize within agencies those officers that enforce drunk driving and underage drinking laws
  • Invest in technology that reduces paperwork
  • Encourage use of Passive Alcohol Senosrs (PAS)
  • Sign the CEDD pledge
  • Encourage agency and officer participation in a Strides for Change event
  • Work with your local MADD office on DUI recognition programs
  • Recognize fallen and injured officers on MADD's onliine victim tribute for law enforcement officers

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Law Enforcement Officer

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