WRAP Commemorates 42nd Year in Fighting Drunk Driving and Underage Drinking

GREATER WASHINGTON INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS LAUDED FOR THEIR COMMUNITY SERVICE

Tysons, VA, October 18 – The nonprofit Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP) commemorated its 42nd year fighting drunk driving and underage drinking today via the organization’s 2024 Annual Meeting and WRAPPY Awards ceremony held at the Tower Club in Tysons, Virginia.

Following a presentation by MADD National CEO Stacey D. Stewart who served as the 42nd annual event’s Featured Speaker, WRAP bestowed the following honors:

2024 Community Partnership Award

  • AAA Mid-Atlantic
  • Arlington Restaurant Initiative
  • Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
  • New Belgium Brewing
  • Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington

2024 Law Enforcement Award

  • Fairfax County Police Department’s DWI Enforcement Squad

2024 Youth Leadership Award

  • Fredy L. Martinez, MS. Ed., Substance Use Prevention & Early Intervention Services Coordinator, Alexandria City Public Schools

2024 Media Partnership Award

  • NBC Washington

2024 Public Service Award

  • Maryland Delegate Vanessa Atterbeary

2024 Chairman’s Award

  • Rick Birt, Director, District of Columbia Highway Safety Office

2024 Public Partnership Award

  • District of Columbia Highway Safety Office
  • Maryland Highway Safety Office / Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration
  • Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles

2024 Corporate Sponsorship Award (contributing $ 5,000 or more to WRAP in FY 2024):

  • Anheuser-Busch
  • Beer Institute
  • Brown-Forman
  • Constellation Brands
  • Enterprise Holdings
  • Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility
  • GEICO
  • Giant Food
  • Glory Days Grill
  • Molson Coors
  • New Belgium Brewing
  • Transurban (Operator of 495, 95 and 395 Express Lanes)
  • Washington Area New Automobile Dealers Association

2024 Corporate Partnership Award:

  • Diageo

WRAP today also elected the following officers: Chief David Huchler (Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police Department), Chairman; Linda Watkins (Inova Trauma Center – Fairfax), Vice Chairman; Mike Young (GEICO), Secretary; Jim Fell (NORC at University of Chicago), Treasurer; and Patrick Burke (Washington, D.C. Police Foundation), Immediate Past Chairman.

The charity also elected the following six individuals as organizational Members: Tiffany Drury (Brown-Forman); Matt Dyson (Enterprise Mobility); Scott Fisher (Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments); Lieutenant Tony Outlaw (Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office); Che Ruddell-Tabisola (Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington); and Roneka Samalenge (Arlington County Police Department’s Arlington Restaurant Initiative).

Sponsors of WRAP’s 2024 Annual Meeting & WRAPPY Awards included AAA Mid-Atlantic, Breakthru Beverage Group, Madison+Main, McAndrew Company, Safety and Advocacy For Empowerment or SAFE, Chris Tavlarides and Transurban.

Founded in 1982, the nonprofit [501(c)(3)] Washington Regional Program (WRAP)is an award-winning public-private partnership working to prevent drunk driving and underage drinking in the Washing ton-metropolitan area. Through public education, innovative health education programs and advocacy, WRAP is credited with helping to keep the annual percentage  of metro-Washington traffic deaths involving alcohol-impaired driving historically lower than the national average. WRAP, however, may best be known to area residents via the organization’s popular free safe ride service to prevent drunk driving, SoberRide®.

For more information, visit WRAP’s web site at www.wrap.org.