In 1981, several provincial organizations began a program to deal with problems related to high school graduation. In the previous five years, several grad-night incidents had occurred: deaths, automobile accidents, boating-related injuries and driving and alcohol-related charges. Provincial and city police, ambulance services, hospital emergency wards and parents faced the end of June with uneasiness as tragedies resulting from high school graduation continued to increase.

These organizations began their work by looking at graduations throughout Manitoba and Saskatchewan and finding a process that would provide a safe celebration. That safe celebration, known as Safe Grad, is now widely accepted and is an integral part of graduation in nearly all Manitoba high schools.

• How to Plan a Safe Grad

• Safe Grad Emergency Plans (PDF) (Developed by Peter & Dagmar Young, Co-chairs of Shaftesbury Safe Grad 2004)

The Manitoba T.A.D.D. chapter began after the Safe Grad organization was requested by graduating students to help the younger students, grades 9 - 11 (S1-S3) , to be aware of the problems in drinking and driving. The TADD program is a gift to all Manitoba teenagers from the 1988 graduating class.

• Go to the T.A.D.D. website

• T.A.D.D. Start-Up Manual (.pdf) 

Click on icon to send animated virtual greeting card with a road safety theme. 

Working together to promote safe driving practices and to save lives! [Courtesy of the ICBC]