Refresh your approach to impaired driving and substance use prevention

Plan My Ride: A web-based, interactive training for teens and young adults

Want to implement substance use prevention in an innovative way?

Plan My Ride is a comprehensive, interactive, eLearning training program developed with and for young drivers to help them build knowledge, skills, and attitudes they need to avoid impaired and distracted driving.

Unlike other safe driving educational programs, Plan My Ride uses a science-backed and theory-driven approach, with youth input, to change behavior by teaching concrete, practical strategies to avoid impaired and distracted driving, and by allowing practice of skills learned in virtual scenarios.

Skills Building and Practice

Plan My Ride contains online lessons, 360-degree scenarios, and brief, online booster sessions to teach students skills to:

Plan ahead
Communicate
Establish safe driving habits
Avoid substance use

Flexible Learning

The program is web-based and asynchronous and can be delivered on a computer or mobile device. Learners can access the program in any location with internet access.

Engaging Content

Designed in look, feel, tone, and content to be relatable and engaging to young drivers or drivers in training, starting at age 14. Plan My Ride is strategically designed to help teens and young adults engage in and retain program content.

**A pilot study found that after taking the Plan My Ride program, teens reported:**

Greater knowledge about the problem of impaired driving
Higher perceived dangerousness of impaired driving
Higher perceived social norms about how many of their closest friends would disapprove of impaired driving
Higher self-efficacy to avoid impaired driving
Higher behavioral intentions to avoid impaired driving

“It helps students plan ahead and repeats that message. Students understand the risks of distracted driving and other important messages through the program.” – Plan My Ride Customer

“I honestly was happy to learn about refusal techniques because I don’t smoke and know a lot of people who do. It will help me on road and off road. I also enjoyed that it was broken into smaller parts versus a larger portion that couldn’t be saved.” – Plan My Ride Student

“I really enjoyed the different scenarios that were offered, and how they were interactive” – Plan My Ride Student