Under Your Influence helps parents and caregivers recognize the powerful role they play in shaping young people’s driving and riding behaviors. Long before teens drive on their own, adult choices, habits, and conversations set expectations that influence how young people approach safety and responsibility on the roadway.

Through evidence-based education grounded in nationally recognized countermeasures that work, Under Your Influence supports parents in modeling safer behaviors, reinforcing seat belt use, reducing distraction, and setting clear expectations around risk. The program equips families with practical strategies to guide conversations, strengthen shared roadway responsibility, and support safer choices as children grow from passengers into drivers.  Available in English and Spanish.

Under Your Influence works because parents are one of the strongest influences on young people’s safety behaviors. By aligning parent education with proven countermeasures that work, including role modeling, seat belt use, reduced distraction, and consistent expectations, the program reinforces safer choices at home that carry into everyday travel and future driving. By supporting positive norms and shared roadway responsibility within families, Under Your Influence helps safer behaviors become expected, reinforced, and sustained over time.

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Everything you need to support teen drivers