Prevention Education
Our dedication to education drives us to be visible in the community. Youth are our prime audience followed by supporting and educating parents about the conversations to have with their kids. Oregon Impact offers a series of interactive programs to create an effective combination of enforcement, public information and education and advocacy to decrease the occurrences of driving under the influence of intoxicants.
Operation Prom Night -
Oregon Impact in partnership with numerous public safety agencies have conducted a variety of graphic, hard-hitting and life-like DUII crash reenactments before more than 25,000 high school students. Not one DUII related fatality has been recorded at any of the participating high schools following this program around events such as prom weekend or graduation week.
Mobile Educational Crash Car Trailer
Designed to start conversations with young drivers our Mobile Educational Crash Car Trailer contains a car from a fatality accident in Oregon City. You can see close up the devastation that an impaired driver can cause.
Watch what others say about Oregon Impact’s progam.
Teen Choices -
Oregon Impact Partnered with area agencies providing information we all care about – helping teens make safe choices. Read more from our first publication.
No matter how smart, remarkable, or trusting these 15, 16, or 17-year-olds are however, their decision making capabilities are still developing. In just the last decade, scientists have gained a greater understanding about brain development. Even though the body may complete its physical growth by the late teens, the human brain won’t be fully developed until the age of 24 or 25.