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.

Provides research-based informal education programs that encourage girls to take risks and master physical, intellectual, and emotional challenges. Programs address math and science education, pregnancy and drug abuse prevention, media literacy, economic literacy, adolescent health, violence prevention, and sports participation.

* Provides equipment and training to local law enforcement officers for DWI Enforcement.* Provides education programs for the community on DWI.* Sponsors the Wayne County Victim Impact Panel.* Provides information and referral for DWI issues.* Compiles statistics on DWI arrests, accidents and fatalities.* Facilitates DUI offender program.

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

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 judgment. The objective of the program is to reduce the incidence of accidents caused by drinking/drug-impaired drivers.

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.

NYS Liquor Authority approved specifically for alcohol servers: establishment owners, bartenders, wait staff, bouncers, festival attendants, convenience store attendants and any other person responsible for serving/selling alcoholic beverages. Program designed to educate servers on best practices of policies and legal responsibilities related to serving alcohol in a retail environment. CPR Online version fee of $35.00 required per participant.

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.

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.

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.

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.

* Offers the provision of funds for county departments and local agencies sponsoring anti-drinking and driving programs.* Provides information and referral for DWI and Traffic Safety issues.* Compiles statistics on DWI arrests, convictions, crashes and fatalities.* Provides Victim's Impact Panel for offenders.* Provides oversight for misdemeanor DWI.* Provides Ignition Interlock Devices.

This program provides licensed counselors in 4 districts and 10 schools offering substance abuse prevention education and counseling to students, faculties, families and communities through individual and group counseling, information and referral services, as well as familiy communication programs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Offers school-based curricula utilizing evidence based information within 13 school districts in Saratoga County. Provides education on alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs as well as bullying, and violence prevention, internet safety, and conflict resolution

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

* Operates a program aiming to prevent impaired driving in a model that includes: arresting those who drive while under the influence of alcohol; swift adjudication of individual cases; certain and severe punishment for those convicted; and publicity for the arrest and prosecution efforts. Includes the following activities:

• DWI Victim Impact Panels - Victims/survivors speak to DWI offenders every six to eight weeks.
• Law Enforcement - Selective enforcement units patrol at peak hours in high-risk areas.
• Prosecution - Special prosecution unit in the Oneida County District Attorney's Office handles all DWI cases.
• Probation - Officers within the Oneida County Probation Department are responsible for coordinating all DWI cases.
• Evaluation and Treatment - Evaluates and treats offenders convicted of DWI and related offenses.
• Community Awareness and Education - Community awareness and education presentations for all interested groups, including elementary, high school, and college age level groups and all other community organizations.
• Additional administrative programs to prevent intoxicated driving.

Introduces victim's point of view to convicted DWI offenders. When victim's statements are told in person, from the heart, in neither blaming or accusatory way, it may enable offender, perhaps for first time, to consider the pain and suffering drinking can cause others; seeks to help offender move beyond focusing on their own "bad luck"; may serve as first step in breaking down denial of offender's mind which may replay when drinking and driving is again an option; may change behavior and save lives.

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

Offers an Impaired Driver Program for eligible motorists convicted of Driving While Intoxicated (DWI), or Driving While Alcohol Impaired (DWAI). The Department of Motor Vehicles determines eligibility for the program. For drivers convicted in New York State or with a New York state driver’s license, you must register for the program at the Department of Motor Vehicles. If you were convicted in a different state and you do not have a New York license, we can register you directly for the program. For detailed information on the program visit the DMV website. To contact the office, please call 516-572-7201 or e-mail [email protected].