Learn about their mission and activities and collaborate with them in identifying their best contribution to the effort. Work with them to understand how to best build on their existing activities, structure, network, and visibility in the community to support 3D Prevention Month. Groups can provide volunteers to support 3D efforts. For example, groups could schedule times at which their members would distribute red ribbons at gathering places such as town centers and malls. Find out if your local law enforcement agency needs volunteers to support its 3D activities.
Organizations can inform and educate their own members.
For example, an organization s newsletter can include facts about the burden of impaired driving in the community as well as provide recipes for non-alcoholic party drinks and offer safe hosting tips. Speakers at meetings can include experts on the effects of drinking and driving, such as law enforcement officers, medical professionals, or individuals who have been hurt by this violent crime. Under programs developed by these organizations, emergency physicians and nurses in communities around the nation have volunteered to speak to civic groups on highway safety issues. ACEP s members are prepared to speak to audiences on impaired driving, aggressive driving and speed, inexperienced drivers and other topics. Emergency Nurses CARE has developed a presentation on impaired driving for teens and young adults, a presentation on medications and highway safety for audiences age 55 and older, and a presentation on alcohol, drugs and peer pressure for third to fifth graders.