Oklahoma Challenge was created in 1984 to address the dangers of teen drunk driving and encourage young drivers to wear their seat belts. Following great success in these areas, Oklahoma Challenge turned its attention to a rising concern—the dire problem of distracted driving, especially among people 15-24 years old. Working in partnership with Oklahoma student groups, Oklahoma Challenge now educates novice drivers about the dangers of engaging in distracting activities—such as texting, talking on the phone, and interacting with passengers—while driving.
Our Story
Look How We Have Grown!
Oklahoma Challenge is unique from other initiatives. Not only do we successfully train virtually and/or in person thousands of Oklahoma middle, high, technical school, and university/college students on traffic safety and gain their personal commitment to driving safely; we also provide support, motivation, and incentives to empower the students to share this message with their peers, their families, their schools, and their entire community. The outcome of this personal commitment and then expanded sharing of this message is that thousands of additional Oklahomans hear this message in a personal, meaningful way from people they know and care about, leading not only to newly acquired traffic-safety information but to true safe driving behavior change.
Oklahoma Youth Challenge
The Oklahoma Challenge and the Energize for Safety Coalition partnered with Oklahoma SkillsUSA and industry volunteers to spread the message of driver safety to over 600 students from western Oklahoma communities.
We can bring a free 3-4 hour fun, interactive, hands-on traffic safety program for your students and educators to raise awareness about the importance of safe driving. Take a Look at this Video to See a Traffic Safety Day in Action!
Did You Know?
Traffic Crashes are the #1 Cause of Death for Students Ages 16-24. Oklahoma Challenge is a program funded by the Oklahoma Highway Safety Office that brings traffic safety education to youth across Oklahoma. We organize Teen Traffic Safety Days to engage youth in traffic safety. Oklahoma Challenge staff coordinate the whole event, recruit local and statewide traffic safety partners, and provide all the activities. All you do is bring the young people. Our goal is to reduce traffic crash deaths and injuries across the state, focusing on novice drivers.
We do this work to help SAVE LIVES because it is our passion. We hope you will accept the challenge and join us!
Our Partners and Collaborators
We are so grateful for all of our partners and collaborators that allow us to spread the impact of our mission. By providing teen crash rate data and a growing list of safe driving activities, the Oklahoma Safe Driving Challenge raises awareness of the need for safe driving programs, provides the tools to find crash-reduction activities, and awards points to schools for completing and submitting their activities.
Oklahoma Challenge in Action.
Interested in an internship opportunity or in becoming a college ambassador? Join the Oklahoma Challenge team and contact us below!
