Survey of the
States
Periodically, GHSA surveys the State Highway Safety Offices on specific issues and publishes the results in a printed report.
Motorcycle Safety Programs 
Published 2008
Most recently, GHSA published a report on state motorcycle safety activities designed to mitigate or
reverse the recent annual increase in motorcycle crashes.
In 2007, GHSA asked state highway safety agencies to
complete a survey detailing motorcycle safety activities for the past three years. Fifty states plus the District of Columbia, Guam and
Puerto Rico submitted completed surveys. The results of this survey are published in this report.
Past Surveys >>
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Occupant Protection for Children Best Practices Manual
State Farm Insurance Company® has teamed with GHSA to develop this Best Practices Manual. The Manual provides comprehensive guidelines, an assessment tool and “real world” projects that exemplify one or more of the essential ingredients to program success: commitment, creativity, communication and cooperation.
More Information >>
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Directions in Highway Safety
A quarterly publication, Directions in Highway
Safety contains articles for GHSA
members and others interested in highway safety issues. GHSA mails a hard copy of the newsletter to Members and the publishes it online for
general readership.
Browse the latest issue: Summer 2008.
Past Issues >>
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Highlights of Association Activity
August 2006 - May 2008
Learn about recent GHSA activities, including:
- Working with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to enhance program performance;
- Develping model operating policies for the highway safety offices and a monitoring
advisory for oversight of grantees; and
- Advocating smart and sensible approaches to highway safety challenges.
Highlights of Association Activity >> 
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Countermeasures That Work
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Policies & Priority Statements
GHSA’s
members meet annually to discuss highway safety problems and
issues and
to adopt policy on highway safety issues of national concern and
importance.
The
most recent policies were adopted at the
Association’s
2005 Annual Meeting and are contained in this document.
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Partnering with State Highway Safety Offices
In late 2004, GHSA and NHTSA published Partnering with State Highway Safety Offices...Tips and Tactics for Success, an important resource for community groups wishing to partner with State Highway Safety Offices (SHSO's). The publication explains the processes SHSO's use in developing their programs and how those in the community can be effective partners. It offers examples of how diverse groups such as the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Virginia's Historically Black Colleges and Universities have successfully partnered with their SHSO's on collaborative projects.
The report is available online at www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/outreach/TipsandTactics/index.htm. Printed copies can also be ordered by going to NHTSA's Traffic
Safety Materials Catalogue and entering 9P0168 Item Number search box.
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GHSA and NHTSA published a series of Community How To Guides on Underage Drinking to combat underage
drinking. The guides were created to help community members and prevention
specialists build comprehensive underage drinking prevention
programs. They were developed as a part of GHSA's Underage Drinking Prevention Project (UDPP), an extensive six-year effort to assist local communities in developing, implementing and evaluating new programs or strengthening existing underage programs. UDPP was funded by a grant from NHTSA.
Published in 2001, the Community Guidebooks are available, in PDF version, through the NHTSA
website.
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Other Selected Highway Safety Publications
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