TEEN PROGRAMS - National Programs
Allstate’s teen driving interactive website with tips for teens and parents. Survey results, driving laws and facts about teen driving.
American Automobile Association (AAA)
AAA’s comprehensive website for teens, parents and educators. Information on teen driver statistics, studies on graduated licensing laws, driving contracts, choosing a driving school, a car for your teen, the “Dare to Prepare” teen driving courses, and how to welcome your new teen driver.
Anheuser-Busch’s programs on teen drinking prevention, alcohol abuse and drunk driving.
Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine
The Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM) is a professional multidisciplinary organization dedicated entirely to motor vehicle crash injury prevention and control.
Non-profit organization for safer teen driving. The website includes newsletters and statistics on teen driving. The organization also does speaking engagements at schools.
Centers for Disease Control’s website with fact sheets on the injuries and deaths caused by car crashes, information on graduated licensing laws and a toolkit, and prom safety.
CITA: The Wireless Association
Public Service Announcements on the dangers of texting and driving done with the National Safety Council. Videos and radio ads.
This non-profit organization is dedicated to educating people on all forms of dangerous driving and reducing crashes. The hope to change the driving culture of America through education, research, and grassroots activism.
This website has information, solutions, instruction, statistics and resources about safe teen driving.
Driver Education Course with Videos, Interactive Classroom, Audio CDs with tips, and Training Mirrors.
Driver’s Edge is a non-profit organization developed to help combat the number of car crashes and fatalities that involve America’s youth using classroom and behind the wheel with “MTV flavor”.
Driving Contracts 101 is a free, web-based interactive course that guides parents and teens in creating driving contracts that define reasonable expectations, privileges and limitations. Also included with the course is a free driving contract generator.
Arizona-based program. Developed for pre-permit, permit and licensed drivers, Driving MBA’s patent pending teen driver education program is the only teen driving course in Arizona that combines classroom, simulation and behind the wheel instruction. Driving MBA’s goal is to create a no-risk, safe environment that enables teen drivers to experience every situation imaginable.
Driving school for new drivers in Maryland, Northern VA and Washington DC
Farmer’s Insurance has a program is called Y.E.S. (You’re Essential to Safety) to help improve teen driving. There are checklists, videos, brochures, quizzes, and roadbooks for teens, as well as a teen driving guide for parents.
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Information from the FMCSA on the “NO ZONE”, the areas drivers should avoid when driving near large trucks and buses.
The Ford Company’s teen driving site. Resources for teens include car care videos, driving tips and training modules with quiz.
GEICO’s website has resources for teens and parents that includes a parent/teen driving contract, a PowerPoint presentation for parents, teen driving statistics, videos and an auto safety library with quiz.
Georgia Department of Driver Services
The Georgia Department of Driver Services with information on Georgia’s Joshua’s Law, which states that if you are 16 years old, you must complete a driver education course approved by the Department of Driver Services in order to receive a Class D License.
Website designed to teach teens all they need to know to successfully pass their driver’s test.
Has your teenager made the safe driving promise yet? The heart of the I Promise Program is the Parent-Youth Safe Driving Contract - developed with the input of teens, parents, police, traffic safety experts and researchers.
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Highway Loss Data Institute
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is an independent, nonprofit, scientific and educational organization dedicated to reducing the losses deaths, injuries, and property damage from crashes on the nation’s highways. The Highway Loss Data Institute shares and supports this mission through scientific studies of insurance data representing the human and economic losses resulting from the ownership and operation of different types of vehicles and by publishing insurance loss results by vehicle make and model.
Keep the Drive is a teen-led movement to take on the No. 1 killer of teens - car crashes. Activities, topics and ideas to get the movement started in your school and information on how to
become involved.
Liberty Mutual’s teen website with information for teens with tips on preparing for the driving test, how to parallel park, and what to do in the case of an accident. Information for parents on helping teens learn to drive, insurance, and state driving laws.
MasterDrive is a driving training class that teaches kids survival skills, on street training as well as classroom instruction.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
MetLife’s website has a life transitions section with information on communicating expectations with teen drivers, teaching teens to drive, setting boundaries and insurance.
A mobile tracking device for teen drivers created by AIG Insurance
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
NHTSA is the governmental agency designed to save lives, prevent injuries and reduce vehicle-related crashes. Information available on traffic safety campaigns, laws and vehicle safety research.
National Organization for Youth Safety (NOYS)
NOYS is a collaboration of approximately 40 antional youth-serving organizations with the common goal of providing safe and healthy behaviors among youth.
National Safety Council/ Teen Drivers
The National Safety Council’s website for teen drivers; parent workshops available
National Student Safety Program
The mission of the NSSP is to encourage and assist students as they initiate and implement highway safety activities within their respective schools and communities.
Nationwide’s teen website was created with the help of the National Safety Council. Parents will get information on How brain development can affect teen driving, the top risks for teen drivers and how to address them, how to talk to your teen about driving in a way that will be well received, what to practice with your teen when you’re in the car and how to help your teen make smarter driving decisions. Teens can take a quiz to find out their driving personality, how to talk to parents about tough issues when it comes to driving, trips, articles and real world driving scenarios.
The mission of the OTSD is to provide the initiative and resources required to challenge the creativity of Illinois teens to develop and implement community-based programs to reduce fatalities and injuries due to traffic crashes among their peers.
Oregon Department of Transportation
A guide to staying safe while sharing the roadways with trucks. Information on appropriate following distance, how to safely merge and passing.
Pennsylvania Department of Motor Vehicles
Teen driving information on the Pennsylvania DMV website with tips for parents on teaching their teens to drive and driver safety tips for teens.
Road Ready Teens website has a road ready video games, multimedia show and a quiz.
Rookie Driver car stickers and magnets available to alert other drivers that a new driver is behind the wheel.
Sean Mullsteff Teen Driving Foundation
This Maryland based non-profit foundation was established by parents of a teen driver killed in a car crash too promote and educate teen driving safety.
Delaware website created to help young drivers to make the right decisions every time they are behind the wheel so they will never put themselves, their passengers or their vehicles in harms way.
State Farm’s teen website with information for parents including handbooks, videos, and advice on setting driving safety rules.
A teen- focused website initially created when its author was 15 years old for the purpose of proving tips to improve teen driving.
The Texas World Speedway’s Teen Survival Driving Academy. Though it’s held at the race track, this is not a racing school. This is a course in basic car control designed to help students avoid accidents.
E-book available with lesson plans for parents and teens, bumber stickers also available to place on your teen’s car which ask for feedback on your teen’s driving.
The Century Council is a not-for-profit organization founded by distillers. They fight to eliminate drunk driving and underage drinking and promote responsible decision making regarding beverage alcohol.
The Tire Rack Street Survival teen driving program aims to reduce deadly car crashes by providing teens with a controlled setting where they can gain invaluable experience in car control, all with a knowledgeable instructor always at their side.
Bridgestone’s Americas website, which includes a variety of consumer safety and education programs geared towards promoting smart driving.
This site includes an interactive online quiz and a parent teen driving contract.
UNC Highway Safety Research Center
The Center for the Study of Young Drivers at UNC’s Highway Safety Research Center was established to study and improve the safety of young drivers.
USAA Educational Foundation K.E.Y.S.
Guide designed to help you foster the development of your teen’s driving skills — from the most basic skills to those needed to handle progressively more challenging driving conditions. “Behind The Wheel” will assist you in guiding your teen through progressively complex practice driving sessions, identifying common driving distractions, sharing safety and security reminders and entering into a safe-driving agreement with your teen driver.
USAA Educational Foundation K.E.Y.S. On the Road Video
Driver distractions contribute to more than half of all teen crashes because they disrupt a driver’s concentration and shorten reaction time. Teen driving distractions include talking with other passengers, changing radio stations or CDs, eating or drinking, and using cell phones while driving. Please take time to view this presentation with your teen driver
Young Driver Research Initiative
An initiative formed by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and State Farm Insurance. The YDRI has just published two new studies in Pediatrics that reveal a link between teen driver crashes and the way families communicate and approach rules about safety. These reports available, along with a set of fact sheets and other resources that have been created to help parents enhance their skills to help teens safely navigate the first years of driving.