Alive at 25 Parent Program Defensive Driving Course
Partnering with Your Teen Driver
To properly prepare teens to drive, parents must have a clear understanding of the risks they face. That’s why the National Safety Council developed the Alive at 25 Parent Program. The 3-hour course identifies those risks and helps parents reinforce basic driving skills and good decision-making to help teens become safe, responsible, and defensive drivers.
This innovative program gets parents involved in training their teens to drive safely and responsibly by:
• Encouraging parent/teen partnership throughout the entire
process, from learning to drive through independent driving.
• Offering practical solutions so parents can take responsibility
to reduce the unique risks and hazards teen drivers face
• Helping parents understand teens’ need for defensive
driver training
• Examining how to approach Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) laws,
in addition to those related to safety belts, speeding, and
alcohol and drugs
• Providing a recommended example of an effective Parent/Teen
Driver Contract and discussing the importance of how parents
and teens can use it to manage their driving experience
Learn from other parents!
Alive at 25 Parent Program is an integrated and interactive course. Parents can share their own experiences and concerns associated with their teen’s learning to drive process with other parents. Open class dialogue provides a platform for parents to discuss ways to improve and/or change behaviors to become a better partner with their teen drivers.