The following teen driver safety tips and tools were created by the Teen Driving Safety Research team at the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at CHOP. These free evidence-based teen driver safety tools for teens, parents, educators, advocates, and policymakers are to be used to enhance teen driver safety. These tools include fact sheets with teenage driving tips, videos, statistics, and educational curricula.
Teen Driver Safety Educational Resources and Tools for Families, Stakeholders and Policymakers
Parent-Supervised Driving Resources
- TeenDrivingPlan Practice Guide, an interactive resource filled with activities, tools and 53 short videos to help both parents and teens make the most of their practice drive time
- TeenDrivingPlan Goal Guide, a useful tool that helps remind families to set goals for each practice drive so that a portion of each drive focuses on learning a specific goal or goals
- TeenDrivingPlan Logging & Rating Tool a useful tool that helps families track their practice driving by driving environments and to record where their teens need work.
- Make the Most of the Learner Permit, a fact sheet that guides families during the parent-supervised practice driving period
- The Intermediate Period, a fact sheet that helps parents continue to support their teens when driving alone
- TeenDrivingPlan Practice Guide Pop-Up, a promotional tool that stakeholders may use to share the TeenDrivingPlan Practice Guide with families
- TeenDrivingPlan Postcard, a promotional tool that stakeholders may use to share the TeenDrivingPlan Practice Guide with families
- TeenDriverSource Postcard, a promotional tool that stakeholders may use to share TeenDriverSource.org with families
- The TeenDrivingPlan YouTube Channel offers 54 brief videos to help parents effectively supervise their teens' practice driving
Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) Resources
- Most Newly Licensed Teens Do Follow GDL, an infographic based on research conducted by Allison E. Curry, PhD
- How GDL Decals May Work, an infographic on how decals may work to reduce teen crash risk
- A legislative education fact sheet to share with policymakers to enact decals as part of a comprehensive GDL program
- Another legislative education fact sheet to share with policymakers to raise the age requirement for the Intermediate License Phase of Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) to age 21
- Trends in Teen Driver Safety: Passengers Get Safer, an infographic to share with teens and parents.
- Playing Catch-up -- How to Address the Lag in Reducing Child Mortality Rates, a webinar recording for health policy stakeholders and policymakers
- Facts and stats on various teen driving topics, including distracted driving, Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL), and speeding.
Program Planning and Evaluation Resources
- Our researchers collaborated with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to develop tools to facilitate the evaluation and enhancement of safe driving programs for teens. Although focused on teen driver safety topics, these resources can be used by those interested in a wide range of safety and other public health topics:
The 13-chapter Program Planning & Evaluation Guidebook includes how to conduct a needs assessment to determine specific problems and needs for individual areas; generating SMART objectives; selecting appropriate programming, and recommendations for determining evaluation metrics.
The Program Planning & Evaluation Resource Book includes evidence-based, adapted supplementary resources, such as worksheets; pre-post surveys; websites; literature recommendations; data resources; and more to help guide your programming efforts.
- The CHOP Program Planning and Evaluation YouTube Channel includes videos to accompany each chapter of the guidebook.
Contact Linda Fleisher, PhD, MPH at FleisherL@email.chop.edu to access these resources, including key performance measures based on the literature and a database of 62 teen driver safety programs.