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Provides information and public awareness about the dangers and impact of drinking and driving.

Develops programs to combat drunk driving. Victim Impact Panel is held once a month during the months of January, May, September and November. For questions relating to the VIP call 607-687-0871.

Offers programming as a response to injuries and deaths caused by drunk drivers. Provides intervention services focusing on enforcement, adjudication, rehabilitation and education. The program is entirely funded through drunk driving fines received through local town, village, city and county courts.

Administers the Orange County Victim & Teen Impact Panel, conducts outreach and provides public information about preventing impaired drivers.

Meets the challenge by engaging with community based providers who have convened to form strong coalitions to prevent substance abuse.

Provides immediate emotional support as well as guidance through the criminal justice system and a wide range of free literature to victims and their families.

To reduce the incidence and impact of criminal behavior of juveniles and adults in the community

Provides park and recreation programs and activities for residents and visitors to the Town of Van Buren.

The County STOP-DWI incorporates various local efforts to reduce alcohol and other drug related traffic crashes, funded through fines collected from violators. Programs include traffic safety, prosecution of offenses, and treatment services.

Educational program that attempts to discourage adolescents and adults from driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs that have an impact on their reflexes or judgement. The objective of the program is to reduce the incidence of accidents caused by drinking/drug impaired drivers.

The Putnam County Victim Impact Panel is a collaboration between NCADD Putnam, Putnam County Probation, STOP DWI, and the Walter Hoving Home. The purpose of the program is to impact DWI/DWAI offenders and others deemed appropriate by the judicial system, and to provide restorative benefits to victims speaking as panel members. The speakers talk briefly about an impaired driving crash in which they were injured, or in which a loved one was killed or injured, and how it has impacted their lives and the lives of their families. Other panel members include people in recovery, emergency services providers, police officers, or even a DWI/DWAI offender.

The panel speaks about how impaired drivers have impacted their lives. Attendees to the panel are referred by the Courts, Probation, and Drinking and Driving Programs.

Administrates Victim Impact Panel for DWI offenders, provides assistance to local SADD chapters, public awareness about drinking and driving, and funding for DWI road patrols and police equipment.

The County STOP-DWI incorporates various local efforts to reduce alcohol and other drug related traffic crashes, funded through fines collected from violators. Programs include traffic safety, prosecution of offenses, and treatment services.

Legislated in NYS as a response to injuries and deaths caused by drunk drivers. Provides a general deterrence approach with four major components. Enforcement - includes 13 local police departments, sheriffs and state police. Adjudication - includes public defenders, prosecution and magistrates. Rehabilitation - includes an alcohol abuse counselor and a probation officer. Education - includes many programs geared to raising public awareness with a particular focus on students in local schools. The program is entirely funded through drunk driving fines received through town, village, city and county courts. No Yates County tax dollars are involved.

Focuses on law enforcement, prosecution, adjudication (court and probation), rehabilitation treatment, and public information in relation to issues of drinking and driving.

Anti-drunk-driving education and public awareness, allocates DWI (Driving While Intoxicated) fine money to prevention programs.

Seeks to prevent drunk driving by increasing certainty of arrest and conviction and by application of tough penalties.

Focuses on law enforcement, prosecution, adjudication (court and probation), rehabilitation treatment, and public information in relation to issues of drinking and driving. Provides speakers and education materials as well as a Victim Impact Panel.

* Educates the community regarding the dangers of impaired driving and provides funding to groups and organizations engaged in activities related to alcohol and other drug-related traffic safety. * Coordinates a variety of prevention education programs for school and community members.* Offers a DWI Victim Impact Panels in which victims/survivors speak to DWI offenders every six to eight weeks.

Provides education and information to drunk driving offenders through a series of panel speakers, such as survivors/victims of drunk driving accidents, family members of those who have died as a victim to a drunk driver, etc.

Provides community assistance, program development, and education about alcohol and other addictions, including measures that support healthy individuals, families and communities. Offers direct community access to information, materials, resource and trained staff to promote organization and community initiatives.

A program that brings the Victim Impact Panel model into local high schools as part of the studentâs application for a parking permit to allow students to drive to school. The program mandates that both the student and a parent attend this modified VIP which includes victims of substance related crashes as well as representatives from the District Attorneyâs Office, the insurance industry and the medical community. Parents and students gain an understanding of the serious legal, medical, insurance and emotional costs resulting from drinking, drugging and driving. Families are asked to create a driving contract.

The goal of the program is to reduce the number of teenage alcohol/drug-related driving accidents, violations and deaths. The 6-8 week classroom sessions are designed to supplement the health and driver education curriculum offered by each school. Class topics include: DWI laws and the results of an arrest, other drugs and their impact on driving, and special concerns for inexperienced drivers.