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Opportunity Summary:

This grant opportunity, titled "Improving Teen Driving Through a Parental Responsibility Program," was issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) as a discretionary funding opportunity using a cooperative agreement. The central purpose is to develop a structured parental responsibility program that helps parents actively set and enforce "house rules" for teen drivers. Rather than focusing only on teens, the program is designed to raise parents' awareness that their involvement, expectations, and enforcement decisions play a major role in teen driving safety outcomes. The overall goal is behavior change at the family level: getting more parents to establish clear driving limits and consistently enforce them.

Programmatically, the project is expected to include practical strategies for reaching parents and working directly with them so they adopt strict, safety-focused driving limits. The effort is explicitly tied to NHTSA's three priority areas for teen driving: preventing teen access to alcohol, supporting and reinforcing graduated driver licensing (GDL) restrictions, and increasing seat belt use. In practice, this means the program should encourage parents to implement and enforce rules such as zero tolerance for alcohol and driving, compliance with GDL limits (for example, restrictions on nighttime driving or peer passengers where applicable), and consistent seat belt use for the teen driver and all passengers. The emphasis on "parental enforcement" signals that the program should go beyond general education and incorporate methods that help parents follow through, monitor compliance, and apply consequences when rules are broken.

From a funding and administrative standpoint, the opportunity was posted March 18, 2009, with a creation date of March 25, 2009. The original closing date was April 17, 2009, later extended to May 18, 2009, and it was archived June 16, 2009. NHTSA anticipated making two awards, with an estimated total funding amount of $600,000. The award ceiling and floor were both listed at $600,000, indicating the award amount was intended to be fixed at that level per the announcement details. There was no cost sharing or matching requirement, meaning applicants were not required to contribute non-federal funds to be eligible.

Eligibility was listed as unrestricted, meaning the competition was broadly open to any type of entity, subject to any additional eligibility clarifications that would have been included in the full announcement text. The program falls under the "Science and Technology and other Research and Development" activity category and is associated with CFDA number 20.614 (NHTSA Discretionary Safety Grants). Because the funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, NHTSA likely anticipated substantial involvement in the project during implementation, such as collaboration on program design, oversight, coordination on deliverables, or participation in evaluation and dissemination activities.

For applicants needing help accessing the full announcement electronically, the listed point of contact was Wendell Crowder, Contract Specialist, reachable by phone at 202-366-5456.

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