Our Vision: A generation of empowered students driving change for safer roads.

Our Mission: To empower students to influence change in unsafe driving behaviours, through awareness, peer engagement, and education for the next generation.

Ontario Students Against Impaired Driving (OSAID) envisions a future where empowered students lead the charge in transforming road safety in their communities. Our vision is rooted in the belief that students have the passion, creativity, and leadership to drive meaningful change.

Motor vehicle crashes remain the leading cause of death and injury among youth aged 15 to 24 in Canada - a devastating reality that drives OSAID’s work. We believe that these avoidable deaths and injuries on our roads can be prevented when students are equipped with the tools and knowledge to make informed decisions and influence their peers and communities.

Guided by our core pillars - Education, Leadership, and Change - OSAID is committed to fostering a culture of responsibility and awareness that mobilizes a generation to create a movement that reduces unsafe driving behaviours and their tragic consequences.

OSAID has been instrumental in increasing public awareness since 1987, primarily through the peer-based education and intervention campaigns. Unlike the adult population, each year there is a new population of teen drivers who need the tools and motivation to make smart decisions during their formative driving years. It becomes apparent that the delivery of these tools should come from a peer-based model in addition to the standard provincial driver education and licensing structure.

OSAID is an incorporated, registered charity comprised of volunteer members at secondary school. OSAID groups also work closely with other community based organizations, businesses and government agencies. Its affairs are administered by a Board of Directors consisting of ten board members and a Youth Advisory Team.  OSAID provides services that include; OSAID Chapter support and motivation, provincial public awareness programs, conferences, promotional awareness raising resources material, information distribution and the building of student leadership. The Government of Ontario, through the Ministry of Transportation Road Safety & Marketing office, recognizes OSAID as the primary provincial organization promoting the elimination of drinking and driving to a teen population.