Be the Change empowers young people to become Changemakers and move from awareness to action by equipping them with the skills, confidence, and support to lead safer choices in their schools and communities. Grounded in evidence-based curricula and Positive Community Norming, the initiative helps students recognize their influence and use it to shape healthier, safer behaviors.

Through leadership development, peer engagement, and real-world application, Be the Change supports youth in addressing reckless and distracted driving as a shared responsibility. Participants learn how to speak up, organize meaningful activities, and model behaviors that protect themselves and others who share the roadway. The result is student-led action that builds momentum, strengthens community connections, and creates lasting change beyond a single event or campaign.

Be the Change creates student changemakers equipped to lead, model, and reinforce safer choices among their peers and within their communities. When students drive the message, behavior change becomes the norm.

Real teens taking action