First Impact, a program offered by ThinkFirst Missouri, is a traffic safety program that educates parents about Missouri’s Graduated Driver License (GDL) law as well as provides them with the tools they need to monitor, coach and support their new teen driver.

A First Impact event is scheduled for Wednesday, March 4 at the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office in Lexington from 6 p.m until 7:30 p.m.

First Impact offers a FREE 90-minute evidence-based traffic safety program that educates parents and teen drivers about Missouri’s GDL law. The goal of First Impact is to reduce the number of motor vehicle fatalities, injuries and crashes among teen drivers by increasing parental awareness and enforcement of Missouri’s GDL law.

Objectives of the program are to increase: • Awareness of teen driving risks • Understanding of Missouri’s GDL law• GDL monitoring and enforcement at home

• Importance of being a positive role model The program, coordinated by the MU School of Medicine, is delivered by trained Law Enforcement Officers and Facilitators who coach parents by presenting key facts and proven strategies to help parents lower their teens’ crash risk by utilizing the Missouri GDL law.

Those interested can register at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0 D4EA5A92CA3FDC16- 61945041keeping For more infomation, call Allyn Workman, First Impact Program Specialist: 314-302-4542. For more information about First Impact, go to https://medicine. missouri.edu/offices-programs/firstimpact.