The Checkpoints program is designed to provide parents and teens a way to manage new teen driver risks. The early months of independent (without parents) driving is high-risk for teens. The Checkpoints agreement allows teens and parents to work together to establish driving privileges that manage crash risk.
Some schools require the completion of a Checkpoints First-Year Driving Agreement to have the privilege of parking on their campus, while others use Checkpoints for insurance premium reductions, school wide awareness events, and other after school programs.
This Checkpoints website helps parents learn how best to help their new teen driver drive under the safest conditions (at first) and gradually increase to more challenging driving situations.
Requirements for Completing Checkpoints
Here is what will be required to fully meet the requirements of Checkpoints:
- Review Crash Statistics below
- Take the pre-survey
- Go through the Checkpoints eLearning
- Take the post-survey
- Complete a First-Year Driving Agreement
Note: If you need to log out and finish this at another time, your progress in steps 1-4 will not be saved. When logging back in, you can use the menu to navigate to where you left off.
To receive a certificate of completion, you must take evaluation survey after finishing step 5.
You and your teen will learn:
- Common new teen driver risks
- How to talk with each other about preventing risks
- Teen driving rules to manage known risks
- How to gradually increase teen driving privileges
- How the Checkpoints First-Year Driving Agreement works