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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Automotive Safety, Disaster Aid
Mission: To provide education & program svcs to individuals/groups in the communities served. These efforts encourage safe & healthy attitudes, behavior & lifestyles promoting traffic safety, safe/drug-free living, minimized emotional strain & reduced costs to individuals & society.
Programs: Driving under the influence school and supervision program - enrollment for 2017: approximately 1,712. This program includes instruction for first and multiple dui offenders and special supervision services. The special supervision services are for multiple offenders seeking hardship drivers license reinstatement in accordance with specific statutes. The organization is the only department of highway safety and motor vehicles licensed "driving under the influence program" within florida's fifth judicial circuit.
basic driver improvement program enrollment for 2017: approximately 671. This four hour course is used to remove points and to satisfy the department of highway motor vehicles requirements for traffic collision avoidance course.
ignition interlock device program: some dui offenders are required to have an ignition interlock device (iid) placed on their vehicle in order to have their driver license reinstated. Violations of this device may result in the offender attending scheduled appointments with a licensed dui program in their area. The organization, as a licensed dui program, meets with offenders during their restriction period.
other programs of the organization include drug, alcohol and traffic eduction(date)(state-mandated four hour course for first time drivers to get their drivers license), tobacco 411 (four hour course for minors receiving citations for tobacco possesion), intermediate/advanced driver improvement program (idi and adi) (these eight (idi) and twelve(adi) hour courses are for multiple offenders, court-order traffic offenders and/or agressive drivers. ) and victim impact panel (for dui offenders, or those whose dui has been amended to reckless driving; aggressive drivers; teenagers and first time drivers; teen court participants or any other individual who would like to learn the impact of their attitude on the driving task and the lives of others who may be injured or killed by their choice to drive recklessly or under the influence of alcohol or drugs).