defensive driving courses

The National Safety Council Defensive Driving Course, recognized for its leading edge curriculum; is a fast-paced, driver improvement program that offers practical strategies to reduce collision-related injuries, fatalities, and costs. It addresses the importance of attitude in preventing accidents, and reinforces the good driving skills students already have. Most importantly, this course shows students the consequences of the choices they make behind the wheel, and puts defensive driving in a personal context.

No other driver improvement course is so widely used by business and industry, courts and government agencies, state departments, municipalities, driving schools and the military. It's one of the few driver improvement programs that offer consistent quality and content nationwide. Yet, flexible enough for us to customize the course to address driving and road conditions in your state or geographic area.

Open Enrollment Classes

The Iowa-Illinois Safety Council (IISC) now holds the DDC 6 hour course on various dates throughout the year.  This class satisfies most State’s requirements for attendance when mandatory defensive driving training is required due to traffic violations.
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Alive at 25 Court Ordered Classes

Alive at 25 is a highly effective four-hour course that serves as an excellent complement to standard driver education programs. Participants in the Alive at 25 class will learn the negative effects and dangers associated with speeding, distractions, peer pressure, and driver inexperience.  

Topics discussed include, but are not limited to, current state laws related to speeding, impaired driving, seatbelt usage, and cell phone use to include texting.

Iowa teen drivers who receive a second violation on their intermediate license will receive an Iowa DOT suspension notice that provides information on registration for the 4-hour Alive at 25 education course offered by the Iowa-Illinois Safety Council. The Alive at 25 course is not mandatory and drivers are able to proceed with the suspension if desired. 

If you would like your child to take the Alive at 25 course and it is not court ordered, after registering please email dawn@iisc.org to let us know their registration was not court ordered. 
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On-site Training

You decide the course format. Whether your employees are experienced drivers, assuming new driving tasks or commuting to work, this course provides them with safe-driving knowledge that focuses on behavior, judgment, decision-making and consequences. Consider training schedules, safety goals, incident rates and employee’s driving behaviors and skill level, when you choose between the 4, 6 or 8-hour course for IISC to teach on-site at your facility.