WRAP Commemorates 29th Year In Fighting Drunk Driving And Underage Drinking

WRAP Commemorates 29th Year in Fighting Drunk Driving and Underage Drinking

Greater Washington Individuals and Organizations Lauded For Their Community Service

Washington, DC, October 21 – The nonprofit Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP) commemorated its 29th year fighting drunk driving and underage drinking today during its 2011 Annual Luncheon Meeting and WRAPPY Awards ceremony held in the ballroom of Maggiano’s Little Italy in Washington, D.C.

In the last twelve months alone, WRAP highlights include the organization:

 removing 3,649 would-be drunk drivers from Greater Washington’s roadways via WRAP’s free cab ride service, SoberRide including reaching SoberRide’s “50,000th customer served” milestone during the most recent Holiday SoberRide campaign;

 reaching nearly 7,000 Greater Washington high school students with WRAP’s multi-media outreach program, Alcohol Awareness for Students;

 celebrating the 19th year of WRAP’s esteemed GEICO Student Awards program awarding to-date over $ 52,000 in prizes to area student organizations promoting alcohol and drug-free lifestyles to their peers;

 successfully helping to lead Virginia’s efforts to enact legislation both doubling the driver’s license suspension period for teens operating motor vehicles on the Commonwealth’s roadways with virtually any amount of alcohol in their systems and making such crime a Class 1 misdemeanor;

 spearheading the region’s Checkpoint Strikeforce campaign driving down alcohol-related traffic fatalities in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia;

 and inaugurating a number of new programmatic initiatives including WRAP’s: regional limo training to enhance the safety and well-being of teens, transportation company owners and chauffeurs during Greater Washington’s prom and graduation season; as well as, with WRAP partners AAA Mid-Atlantic and the National Capital Coalition to Prevent Underage Drinking, the regionalyouth event, “Know Your Facts – Shatter the Myths” offering Washington-metropolitan area teens an interactive and educational event about alcohol and drug use.

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