MADD: Events

Video Transcript

"One of the things that's probably one of our favorite programs that we do in the community is our three screening school assembly shows. We start our programs in kindergarten, and then we go all the way through college. And what it is, is if you've ever been to like an IMAX theater before, it's kind of got that presence of an IMAX theater. We bring in three twenty-five foot screens. So it's seventy-five foot worth of screen that we bring into their school, and it's a multimedia show that is just fantastic. We have super stars, we have movie stars, we have all kinds of music and lights and things like that that go along with this show. It starts off with a live presentation, we go into a forty-five minute show and then we end it with another live presentation. We do those a lot around prom for the high schools. And what we do is around kindergarten, first, second, and third grade, that area we're not talking about drinking and driving, we're basically talking about smart choices that they can make. So wearing your helmet when you're riding your bike, wearing your seatbelt. Things like that so that they're making wiser choices as a child, then hopefully they'll make wiser choices as they grow up as well. That's one of the great programs that we've got. One of the other programs that we do is victim impact panels. That's where we actually work with local judicial systems that actually send offenders to our classes, to where we actually bring in victims and they go in and talk with offenders. So one of the biggest problems we have, for instance, here in North Carolina is a third of all DWI arrests are repeat offenders. So if we can take that component out of it, and get these people to think twice or have a plan before they go out and party, then that's going to make a major impact on the deaths and the DWI arrests, and the injuries that happen as a result of that. So that's two of our key pillar programs that we've got on a national level as well. "