MADD: Volunteers

Video Transcript

"What we basically do with MADD and our volunteers, is we have got just hundreds of different programs. We have got a listing, if they go to our national website, MADD.org, they can go in and just check off which programs they've got an interest in. Say it's court monitoring, then we would go through and send them, and actually do training with them. We'll train them on the local level and when opportunities arise we'll actually send them to our national headquarters to be trained. Other things that we've got as well is doing speeches or going in and doing prom programs or the pledge forms that we offer to schools around homecoming and different things like that, and we go in and actually bring them together. What we try to do is focus, we don't dump a lot of programs on them, and say "here go at it". We try and find out what their passion is and where they want to make a difference, whether it's child endangerment or actually supporting law enforcement, we get a lot of support from law enforcement and their families because they're the ones out there, on the line, helping to catch and to stop these drunk drivers more than anybody out there. And so we find out what the volunteer's passions are and we hook them up with the programs that we've got, existing programs, get them trained, and we're off and running."