DWI dashboard report

The efforts of the Working Group on DWI System Improvements have served to identify critical system needs, to make needed educational materials available, to articulate the complex issues associated with the implementation of programs and policies embedded within broader systems, and to give voice to the concerns of practitioners in the DWI system and identify achievable solutions. [...] This critical gap impedes progress in reducing impaired driving and was exemplified by the activities of the Working Group in 2011 and 2012 which highlighted priority impaired driving performance measures in the criminal justice system, and the magnitude and characteristics of impaired driving in rural jurisdictions across the United States. [...] The purpose of the focus group was to provide context for the data that had been gathered and to explore the experiences of diverse practitioners across the state. [...] These jurisdictions then participated in utilizing the tool to obtain feedback on the clarity and the availability of the indictors, ways to streamline data collection, and usefulness of the results. [...] Ideally, the Chair of a state DWI Task Force or Committee, in cooperation with the Impaired Driving Coordinator of the State Highway Safety Office, is best positioned to lead and coordinate the use of the Dashboard.