TEAM Refresher Course

For many of our trainers the first four months of the calendar year are your busiest training months. They are definitely our busiest months for exam processing. Given how busy things are, we just want to make sure you notice the TEAM Refresher Course materials which are being sent along with all the certification and retake forms you receive. The Refresher Course gives you new tools with which to share the highlights of TEAM training with your employees. There are printed materials as well as video scenes. We hope you find these materials as well as all the online training tools valuable. And we are doing our very best to process your exams as quickly as possible. Keep them coming!

Lifesavers Conference

For the eighth consecutive year TEAM Coalition (Techniques for Effective Alcohol Management) was an exhibitor at the 2011 Lifesavers Conference held on March 27-29 at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, AZ promoting the message of responsible fan behavior to highway safety officers, administrators, and exhibitors alike.

TEAM Coalition offered photos to conference attendees with the photo borders used by TEAM Coalition to reward responsible fans at premier events surrounding championship and all-star events for major league sports. All the photo borders included the logos of state offices of highway safety which partnered with TEAM and the leagues for these events.

TEAM Coalition has worked with the following state offices of highway safety in recent years...among many others!

• Arizona Governor's Office of Highway Safety
• California Office of Traffic Safety
• Colorado Department of Transportation
• Florida Department of Transportation
• Illinois Department of Transportation
• Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning
• Missouri Department of Transportation
• Texas Department of Transportation
• Utah Department of Public Safety

Click here to read more.

TEAMUp2Win! with NCAA

TEAMUp2Win!^® is the newest initiative from TEAM Coalition (Techniques for Effective Alcohol Management) that works to prevent drunk driving by encouraging everyone to have a designated driver. This year over 1,000 NCAA basketball fans participated.

Everyone who made the Responsibility Has Its Rewards pledge had a chance to win one of two Grand Prize Trips to either Indianapolis, IN for the 2011 NCAA^® Women's Final Four^® or to Houston, TX for the 2011 NCAA^® Men's Final Four^®.

Congratulations to Daniel Cooley, winner of the 2011 TEAMUp2Win! Men's Final Four Prize and Tanya Husick, winner of the 2011 TEAMUp2Win! Women's Final Four Prize!

NAB Show 2011

TEAM Coalition was invited to participate for its eighth year in the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas, NV on April 11-13. TEAM joined other non-profit organizations from around the country at the public service booth in the exhibit hall to offer its designated-driver PSAs to broadcast professionals from around the world. Click here to read more.

NBA Responsibility Has Its Rewards Sweepstakes

TEAM Coalition and the National Basketball Association are supporting the designated-driver programs at all NBA arenas during the 2010/11 season with a special incentive. Every arena offers fans a designated-driver program. Fans who register to be a designated-driver pledge to not drink alcohol, drive their friends and family home safely, and ensure that everyone always buckles up.

With the regular season complete, we are reaching out to each NBA team and collecting their total number of fans who pledged to be designated-drivers. That number is over 62,000 with several teams still left to report. We are also reaching out to the randomly selected designated drivers representing each NBA team. The NBA Designated Drivers for the Season representing the teams playing in the 2011 NBA Finals will each receive a grand prize of two (2) tickets to the first game of the 2011 NBA Finals^® played in the arena of their favorite team. This sweepstakes is proof once again that responsibility really does have its rewards!

Click here to see the Finalists in the NBA RHIR Sweepstakes.

NHL Responsibility Has Its Rewards Sweepstakes

Very similar to the NBA Responsibility Has Its Rewards sweepstakes, TEAM Coalition and the National Hockey League are supporting the designated-driver programs at all NHL arenas with a very unique reward for the league's most responsible fans.

For the randomly selected Designated Drivers for the Season representing each NHL team, a grand prize drawing the will select one lucky fan to attend the 2012 NHL All-Star Game in Ottawa, ON.

Click here to see the Finalists in the NHL RHIR Sweepstakes.

So far more than 59,000 designated drivers have been reported league-wide with several teams still left to provide their tallies.

MLS Fans Don't Let Fans Drive Drunk

TEAM Coalition has expanded the Fans Don't Let Fans Drive Drunk Web site to include Major League Soccer and all eighteen clubs. As the season progresses, TEAM will report the standings for the designated-driver program for each Club. Additionally, the site is a resource for all the responsibility initiatives in place with each MLS club including their Code of Conduct, designated-driver program details and alcohol service policies.

Coming soon will be links directly to the PSAs each club has produced with TEAM Coalition to promote their designated-driver programs. Click here to see all the MLS PSAs.

Upcoming IDPs

TEAM Coalition has many Instructor Development Program (IDP) workshops on the 2011 calendar. Thank you to all the sports and entertainment facilities across the country that generously host these two-day workshops.

Special thanks go out to our recent hosts at Comerica Park in Detroit, MI; Prince George's Stadium in Bowie, MD; Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA and Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo, NY. Congratulations and welcome to our 32 new TEAM trainers and 13 recertifying trainers. Click here to see the photos from all those recent workshops.

Here is the schedule of upcoming IDP workshops:

• May 4-5, 2011: Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX
  Registration Deadline: April 26, 2011
  


• May 9, 2011: Woodside Ranch in Mauston, WI
  Registration Deadline: May 2, 2011
  


• June 21-22, 2011: Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver, CO
  Registration Deadline: June 13, 2011
  


• July 19-20, 2011: EverBank Field in Jacksonville, FL
  Registration Deadline: July 11, 2011
  

Click here to register for an upcoming IDP.

Continue to check our Web site as we regularly add dates to the IDP calendar.
We are always looking for facilities to host IDP workshops. The host receives two free registrations. Please let us know if you are interested in hosting a future IDP.

Upcoming Events

TEAM frequently travels to promote our efforts in effective alcohol management and positive fan behavior. Here is the list of our upcoming events.

• May 3, 4 and 5: Arizona Diamondbacks kick-off the Designated-Driver Challenge at Chase Field in Phoenix, AZ
  


• May 9: Houston Astros Responsibility Day at Minute Maid Park in Houston, TX
  


• May 14: Detroit Tigers Designated-Driver PSA with Fans at Comerica Park in Detroit, MI
  


• May 19: TEAM Coalition Membership Meeting at MLS offices in New York, NY
  


• May 24, 25 and 26: Colorado Rockies launch the Designated-Driver Challenge at Coors Field in Denver, CO
  

Click here to see the online calendar.