National Newsletter - Summer 2011

Final Edits Underway on New School Assembly Program

The finishing touches are being put on Damages, MADD Canada’s 2011-2012 School Assembly Program.

In the program, students are shown a different aspect of impaired driving – the legal consequences of being the driver in a fatal crash. Students follow Jesse from his terrible decision to drive impaired through the resulting horrific crash and into the criminal justice system. Jesse’s bright future and plans for university are replaced with the possibility of a prison term and a criminal record. The program finishes with the powerful and emotional stories of victims whose family members were killed in impaired driving crashes.

MADD Canada hosted a premiere screening of the close-to-final film in May for community partners, cast, crew and generous sponsors of the program.

“The characters are fictional but these scenarios are all too real,” said MADD Canada National President Denise Dubyk. “Teens and young adults put lives, and their own futures, at risk by getting behind the wheel when drunk and/or high.”

Damages, and its French counterpart Dommages, will begin a cross-country tour of schools in September and will be seen by approximately 1 million students throughout the 2011-2012 school year.

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