Projects
Participate in YOVASO's fun and interactive projects to promote young driver and passenger safety in your school and community.
YOVASO safety projects are designed to focus on the top causative factors in young driver crashes. The projects are a free and fun way to encourage youth to be safer and more responsible drivers and passengers.
Drive for Change: Buckle Up & Slow Down Project
High School Focus: To influence teens to form a lifelong buckle up habit by reminding them that seat belts are their best defense against injury and death in a crash. The project also emphasizes the importance of driving the speed limit.
Middle School Focus: to influence youth to form a lifelong buckle up habit by reminding them that seat belts are their best defense against injury and death in a crash. The project also emphasizes the importance of knowing your rights as a passenger in a vehicle.
This peer-to-peer project is offered as a competition for schools and youth groups that wish to compete. However, schools and youth groups may participate without competing. The required components for those competing typically include some type of creative project or event, call-to-action activities completed throughout the school day, and pre and post project seat belt checks to measure the project’s impact. Prizes are awarded in the high school division to the top winning school/youth group and to five schools/youth groups who receive honorable mention. Prizes are awarded in the middle school division to the top winning school/youth group and to three schools/youth groups who receive honorable mention. The project also includes a Halloween component to remind all youth and teens to make good choices and celebrate safely during Halloween weekend.
All participating schools and youth groups will receive a box of materials and incentive items to use with the project. Schools and youth groups planning to promote a safe Halloween will also be able to register for additional materials to promote good choices on Halloween and the days leading up to the celebratory holiday.
Mystery Challenge
We decided to give you a fresh new challenge to complete with your club, classmates, or peers at your school!
We want to hear directly from teens working together about the importance of traffic safety, making smart choices behind the wheel, and speaking up for passenger rights.
This is a team challenge, not an individual entry. Projects must be created and submitted by a group, such as a YOVASO club, or as a class project.
One submission per school.
How do you achieve this? That’s up to you! Get creative, work as a team, and get filming!
Holiday Safety Project and Contest
Focus: High school students will promote responsible celebrations and safe driving during the holiday period from Thanksgiving through New Year’s. Middle school students will also promote safe celebrations and passenger safety during this celebratory season. Our goal is for all of our students to make it safely back to school in January.
Overview: YOVASO sponsors a safe driving jingle contest to encourage students to celebrate safely and responsibly during the holiday season. YOVASO also provides participating schools and youth groups with activity ideas, announcement examples, and other fun resources to promote safety during this high-risk time. Prizes are awarded in the middle and high school divisions to the first, second, and third place winning schools and/or youth groups with the best jingle.
Project GPS
Project GPS: Get Places Safely is a free educational initiative designed to help keep youth safe as they approach the “100 Deadliest Days” for young drivers; the period between Memorial Day and Labor Day when crash rates rise significantly. The project works to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities among young drivers, passengers, pedestrians, and cyclists during the high-risk spring and summer months.
The new spring project focuses broadly on encouraging all youth to buckle up, make responsible decisions, and speak up if they feel unsafe in a vehicle. High school participants will build on this foundation by exploring the dangers of speeding and other risky warm-weather driving behaviors, while middle school participants will take a closer look at passenger rights, as well as pedestrian and bicycle safety.
