Mission Statement: To provide the most effective Driving with Care education and prevent a DUI offender from driving drunk again. Safer Streets Minnesota DUI Schools is a teaching facility specializing in DUI education required by court to fulfill probation and court orders. Our classes will be teaching out of the ‘Driving with Care Level 2’ education books. This will be a community based business helping DUI offenders. Traditional alcohol and other drug (AOD) related highway safety programs have been mainly educational, utilizing passive-participant (didactic presentations, films, etc.) program models. There is evidence that this more traditional approach has not been effective in reducing repeat offending or recidivism. Conversely, there is evidence that a cognitive-behavioral approach to changing behavior has been effective in treating clients with a history of substance abuse and criminal conduct. The Driving With Care ™ (DWC) program focuses on changing thinking, attitudes, and behaviors that lead to driving while having a measurable presence of alcohol or other drugs in the body and brain. The focus is on cognitive behavioral self. The more traditional alcohol and drug related driving safety programs have focused on AOD relapse prevention; the DWC program also focuses on recidivism prevention - or the prevention of illegal conduct as defined in AOD impaired driving statutes.
There are a number of Correctional agencies in Minnesota that have implemented the Driving With Care™ program to address the high volume of probationers being supervised for DWI related offenses. The list includes, but is not limited to, Anoka County, Brown County, Dakota County, Carver County, Hennepin County, Ramsey County, Scott County, St. Louis County and Washington County. Although recidivism outcomes have not been determined, the overall response by agencies, facilitators and participants has been very encouraging. Because Driving With Care™ adheres to the principles of evidence-based group cognitive skills models of programming, outcomes and effects are likely to be similar.