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Center for Driver’s License Recovery & Employability

Center for Driver’s License Recovery & Employability. 2014 Biennial Community Meeting Friday, September 19, 2014 Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC). Today’s speakers & awardees. Janice Falkenberg Milwaukee Area Technical College Myra Edwards Mistress of Ceremonies

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Center for Driver’s License Recovery & Employability

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  1. Center forDriver’sLicenseRecovery & Employability 2014 Biennial Community MeetingFriday, September 19, 2014Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC)

  2. Today’s speakers & awardees • Janice FalkenbergMilwaukee Area Technical College • Myra EdwardsMistress of Ceremonies • State Senator Nikiya Harris DoddState Senator Glenn GrothmanState Senator Jerry Petrowski State Representative Garey Bies (by video)State Representative Sandy PaschChampions of low-income Wisconsin drivers • Reverend Willie BriscoMilwaukee Inner-city Congregations Allied for Hope (MICAH) • Lois Quinn & John PawasaratUniversity of Wisconsin Milwaukee-Employment & Training Institute (UWM-ETI)

  3. Partners • Wisconsin Community Services (WCS) • Legal Action of Wisconsin • Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) • City of Milwaukee

  4. Mission To increase the number of valid, low-income drivers in Milwaukee County.

  5. Four Objectives • Provide direct serviceto low-income drivers whose suspensions are not for serious safety violations; • Provideeducational advocacythrough policy & legislative changes; • Increase access to driver’s education; and • Increase community awarenessabout the impact of driver’s license suspensions and revocations.

  6. Direct Service

  7. Historic Outcomes (March 1, 2007-August 31, 2014) • 12,726 Referrals • 4,690 Cases Managed/Closed • 2,759 Licensed Drivers • 4,470 Additional “Advice” Cases • 58.8% Success Rate

  8. Educational Advocacy

  9. Advocacy Victories The bi-partisan law changes for which the CDLRE has advocated positively impact over 100,000 Wisconsin drivers each year.

  10. Advocacy Victories • Highlights: • Retroactive application of Habitual Traffic Offender revision, resulting from 2005 Wis. Act 25: Over 8,000 safe drivers were released from HTO status • 2009 Wis. Act 8, which eliminated mandatory license suspensions upon conviction on criminal drug charges: Over 8,000 suspensions per year • 2009 Wis. Act 102, which eliminated mandatory revocations upon repeat convictions for Operating While Suspended/Revoked & retroactive application: Over 40,000 drivers had revocations released on just one day • 2011 Wis. Act 112, which shortened suspensions for nonpayment of damage judgments from 20 years to 5 & retroactive application: Over 3,000 Wisconsin drivers each year

  11. Driver’s Education

  12. Young Drivers Campaign

  13. Young Drivers Campaign

  14. Young Drivers Campaign Partners • Wisconsin Community Services (WCS) • Legal Action of Wisconsin • Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) • COA Youth & Family Centers • Running Rebels • Safe & Sound • Holton Youth + Family Center

  15. Community Awareness

  16. 2014 Community Events • Milwaukee Fatherhood Initiative (MFI) and Clean Slate @ Parklawn YMCA, March • Goodwill Workforce Connection Centers, April & July • SDC Resource Fair @ Journey House, May • Alderman Ashanti Hamilton with WRTP: Community Jobs Resource Fair @ [the former] Custer High School, June • City of Milwaukee Health Department Men’s Health Fair @ Northwest Health Center, June • Driver’s License Restoration Clinic @ YMCA Urban Campus, June & August • Alderpersons Perez & Donovan with WRTP: Community Jobs Resource Fair @ MATC Education Center at Walker’s Square, July • Alderpersons Coggs & Wade with WRTP: Community Jobs Resource Fair @ the COA Goldin Center, August • The Silver Spring Neighborhood Center’s Back to School Event @ Silver Spring Neighborhood Center, August • Project Homeless Connect @ Marquette University, October • MFI 2014 Fatherhood Summit @ Destiny High School, October

  17. The Impact of a Driver’s License • Video

  18. Video AppearancesIn Alphabetical Order • McKenzie Edmonds, Sojourner Family Peace Center • Nyette Ellis, YWCA of Southeastern Wisconsin • Jordan Fox, Successful Client • Mark Kessenich, WRTP/BIGSTEP • Dr. Vicki Martin, Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) • Alejandro Morales, Successful Client • Andre Outlaw, Successful Client • Dennis Walton, Milwaukee Fatherhood Initiative • Special thank you to Carmella DeLucia, our volunteer videographer.

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