Don’t Drink and Kill Media Campaign Launched featuring Virginians

 

On June 27, MADD Virginia and the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles kicked off a month long television, radio and Facebook campaign featuring Virginians to remind people not to drive impaired over the July 4th holiday week and throughout the year. Three PSA’s were introduced at the press conference featuring the victim stories of Shaniqua ‘Denay’ Patterson from Surry County, George ‘Eddie’ Neselrod from Newport News, Rosa, Elsie and Amzi Broadnax from Amelia County, Thomas C. Estep from Wise County, Alonza Jefferson, Jr. from Chesterfield County and Robert Lee Cooper, Jr. from Fluvanna County.

 

Read more here on our blog. You can watch and SHARE the videos on YouTube and the MADD VA Facebook page. View a recording of the press conference here. WWBT TV coverage here.

American Academy of Pediatrics Issues Policy Statement on Underage Drinking

 

This great article in the Washington Post discusses a newly release Policy Statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) regarding underage drinking. The AAP recommends, along with a number of other strategies, what MADD has been saying for years - that adults must send clear messaging against the use of alcohol by adolescents and young adults under the age of 21.

 

MADD and the VA ABC have the tools to help!! Visit the MADD website for videos with experts and downloadable parent handbooks.  At the VA ABC website, you can order Power of Parents handbooks “Talking with Teens about Alcohol”, watch a Power of Parents underage drinking prevention webinar, or request a Power of Parents presentation in your community.

Calendar

 

MADD Regional Law Enforcement Awards Ceremonies

9/5 – Harrisonburg

9/6 -  Vinton

9/10 – Virginia Beach (NEW LOCATION- Renaissance Portsmouth-Norfolk Waterside Hotel)

9/12 – Charlottesville

9/19 – Abingdon

9/24 – Northern Virginia

9/27 – Stratford Hall

10/3 – Richmond

10/24 - Clarksville

TBD - Farmville

For more information, contact jamie.jarrard@madd.org

 

10/12  Northern Virginia Walk Like MADD

11/18 Richmond Candlelight Vigil of Hope and Remembrance -Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens. Pictures from last year.

TBA – Virginia Beach Candlelight Vigil

MADD Around VA

 

Volunteer Vanessa Haislip speaks about the loss of her daughter Melissa at a Hanover Sheriffs Office Roll Call briefing

See what else MADD VA has been up to on our June blog post and our July blog post.

Impaired Driving Stories in the News

 

7/7/19 Midlothian Man Charged with DUI in Death of Pedestrian

7/9/19 79 Drunk Drivers Arrested by Virginia State Police Over July 4th Holiday Weekend

7/2/19 Teen Driver Charged with DUID

6/28/19 – Sheila Gorham, 47, Caroline County

6/25/19 – Theresa Goetz, 27, Halifax County

6/25/19 – Madolyn Morris, 18, Rockingham County

6/22/19 – Coaty James Thomson, 28 and Shawn Mills, 14, Spotsylvania County

6/12/19 – Molly Rose Clee, 29, Bedford

6/1/19 - Leander Pugh, 57, Chesapeake

5/24/19 – Richard Medeiros, 52, Albemarle County

5/13/19 – Ralph Derogatis, 62, Hanover County

4/25/19- David Neal, 61, Fairfax (died 5/4/19)