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

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.

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.

Promotes traffic safety education to the community. Coordinates the Child Passenger Safety initiative, which includes car seat distribution and installation education.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

* 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.

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.

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.

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

Provides education to the community on alcohol and drug impaired driving. Administers andCoordinates countywide impaired driving grant project, Coordinated Checkpoints and enforcement campaign. Educational and Informational materials are also available for schools, clubs and civic organizations.

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.

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.

Is the newest tool in the fight against drunk driving. It's a battery-powered, remote-controlled vehicle that resembles a go-cart and simulates the experience of driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol. SIDNE is now being introduced to enable high school students, college students, and parents to experience firsthand the often unimagined impact of driving while under the influence. SIDNE is a prevention initiative utilized and demonstrated in a collaborative effort by NCADD Putnam, Communities That Care Coalition and the Putnam County Youth Bureau, to deliver engaging and hands-on lessons about the misuse and abuse of alcohol and other drugs and the dangers of distracted driving. SIDNE activities include fatal vision goggles, simulated field sobriety test, activities to exhibit weight to alcohol consumption comparison, and activities to exhibit the ease of getting distracted while driving. For more questions on SIDNE please contact Elaine Santos at [email protected]

Education and enforcement to reduce drunk 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.

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