NHTSA and its Partners

The Impaired Driving Division at National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) seeks to develop partnerships to cooperatively save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce traffic-related healthcare and economic costs resulting from impaired driving (alcohol and other drugs). NHTSA collaborates with many criminal justice and community organizations to sponsor impaired driving campaigns such as You Drink & Drive. You Lose., Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk and Zero Tolerance Means Zero Chances. Contact the following organizations to find local affiliates and impaired driving activities in your area.

• International Association of Chiefs of Police is the world's oldest and largest nonprofit membership organization, with over 19,000 police executive members at the international, federal, state, and local agency level.
  

• National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives conducts research, advocacy, and outreach to help shape policies in areas of vital importance to minorities.

• National Association of Governors' Highway Safety Representatives (GHSA) provides a collective voice to states and territories, to help Congress and federal agencies develop national policies that ensure effective highway safety programs, including those on impaired driving.

• National Sheriff's Association (NSA) conducts outreach programs that enable sheriffs, their deputies, chiefs of police, and others in the field of criminal justice to perform their jobs in the best possible manner and to better serve the people of their cities, counties or jurisdictions.

• Operation C.A.R.E. is one of the longest running traffic safety initiatives in the United States, established in 1977 to deter the three key causes of highway fatalities: speeding, impaired driving and failure to use occupant restraints.

• MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit grass roots organization with more than 600 chapters nationwide. MADD is not a crusade against alcohol consumption - MADD's mission is to stop drunk driving, support the victims of this violent crime, and prevent underage drinking.

• RADD (Recording Artists, Actors & Athletes Against Drunk Driving) is aninternationally recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that uses celebrity power to create positive attitudes about road safety.

• SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) is a youth peer leadership organization that provides students with the best prevention and intervention tools possible to deal with the issues of underage drinking, other drug use, impaired driving and other destructive decisions.
  
  
• Nationwide Insurance
  National District Attorneys Association
  There's no debating that when communities mobilize and stand united against impaired drivers, lives are saved.
  
  
• National Association of Prosecutor Coordinators
  To provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information and the development of programs and services for the mutual benefit of prosecutor coordinators and prosecutors.
  
  
• National Commission on Alcohol on Drunk Driving
  T he National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. provides education, information, help and hope to the public. It advocates prevention, intervention and treatment through offices in New York and Washington, and a nationwide network of Affiliates.

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