TraiNiNg For Prosecutors, Judges, ANd AttorNeys
Child endangerment issues should be an ongoing component of all training programs for prosecutors, judges and attorneys. This could be accomplished in the following manner:
• Presentations at judicial conferences and state judicial meetings, • Development of a child endangerment tool kit including video presentation, • Development of Continuing Legal Education (CLE) materials including videos, • Make materials and brochures available through state legal training organizations, National Traffic Law Center (NTLC) and judicial colleges, and • Prosecutor training programs.
Consideration should be given to developing a workshop training program on a state or local level that would bring together law enforcement, judges, attorneys, prosecutors and child protective service representatives focusing on the problems of DUI/DWI child endangerment. MADD Resources To help protect children, MADD has developed and launched an educational program, Protecting You/Protecting Me . This program utilizes science-based research to teach young people the effects of alcohol on the brain and the lessons encourage children to make smart choices for themselves. Children are instructed on how to avoid riding with an impaired driver and safety measures they can take when forced to ride with an impaired driver. MADD developed this program because, unfortunately, children must often take it upon themselves to protect themselves in a dangerous situation. Current child endangerment laws are not always effectively written or aggressively enforced to adequately safeguard our children from impaired driving crashes.
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