GHSA and Responsibility.org Grants to Combat Impaired Driving

GHSA and Responsibility. org Grants to Combat Impaired Driving is sponsored by Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) and Responsibility. org.

These grants are awarded to State Highway Safety Offices (SHSOs) to help reduce impaired driving, strengthen the DUI system, and prevent fatalities.

Responsibility. org | Governors Highway Safety Association Responsibility. org works with GHSA on a number of initatives relating to eliminating drunk and drug-impaired driving.

GHSA and Responsibility. org focus on alcohol-impaired driving as well as the growing issue of drugged driving and multi-substance impaired (alcohol and drugs) driving. GHSA and Responsibility.

org partner to provide resources to both State Highway Safety Offices (SHSOs) and law enforcement agencies. Each year, GHSA and Responsibility. org provide grants to states to improve their ability to detect impaired drivers and remove them from the road.

Four State Highway Safety Offices received a total of $120,000 in funding in 2025 : The District of Columbia Highway Safety Office is partnering with the Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP) and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) to implement a forward-looking research initiative focused on the development and validation f oral fluid testing methods for impaired driving enforcement.

This project is designed to support the District of Columbia’s preparedness for anticipated legislation that would authorize roadside screening and post-arrest evidential testing using oral fluid samples.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is partnering with the Center for Forensic Science Research & Education to evaluate 4 years of existing toxicology data from more than 60,000 impaired-driving cases to identify trends in substance use, including polysubstance detection and common drug combinations.

By leveraging standardized data and advanced statistical techniques, the project will also support improvements in officer training, detection strategies and policy development.

Through a grant from the Vermont Agency of Transportation , the Vermont Criminal Justice Council will give its Drug Recognition Experts hands-on training through “green labs,” an innovative and successful training model where officers can observe the real-time effects of cannabis on volunteers in a safe, controlled setting.

This practical approach will help officers better recognize the signs of impairment, improve roadway safety and reduce crashes involving drug-impaired drivers. The Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) will provide the Teton County Sheriff’s Office with new breathalyzers and train all patrol deputies on the new equipment to ensure consistent, accurate roadside testing.

Through community education events and a media campaign, WYDOT will also raise awareness about drug- and alcohol-impaired driving, encourage safer driving behaviors and support long-term cultural change around impaired driving. Since 2016, Responsibility. org has awarded $1.

199 million to states. Impaired Driving Grant Result: Pennsylvania (Lackawanna County) Impaired Driving Grant Result: Pennsylvania (Center for Forensic Science Research and Education) Impaired Driving Grant Result: Ohio Impaired Driving Grant Result: Missouri Impaired Driving Grant Result: Maryland Cannabis Consumers and Safe Driving: Responsible Use Messaging In 2022, GHSA and Responsibility.

org published a report with the National Alliance to Stop Impaired Driving (NASID) providing guidance to states and their partners through identifying best practices in marijuana and driving messaging. Examples of evidence-based initiatives, partnering tips and recommendations are included on the types of messages that do and don’t work. Term raw: News Releases | Slug: news-releases GHSA and Responsibility.

org Award Grants to Help States Combat Alcohol, Cannabis and Multiple-Substance Impaired Driving Kansas, Oregon and Pennsylvania will use funding to strengthen toxicology testing, expand roadside breath testing capacity and provide specialized training to identify and remove impaired drivers from the road.

Federal Research Projects Term raw: Federal Research Projects | Slug: federal-research-projects Strategies to Address Misreporting of Impaired and Distracted Driving in Motor Vehicle Crashes (BTS-20) This project developed procedures to assess the existence and extent of under/over-reporting of impaired and distracted driving in crash data and to propose a methodology to improve the reporting of impaired and distracted driving in motor vehicle crashes.

Term raw: Newsletters | Slug: newsletters Directions in Highway Safety: Fall 2025 Issue Read about the growing momentum for roadway safety heading into 2026, a tribute to former GHSA Executive Director Barabara Harsha, how to improve drug-impaired driving data, and much more in the latest edition of GHSA's newsletter.