WRAP Commemorates 44th Year in Fighting Drunk Driving and Underage Drinking

GREATER WASHINGTON INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS LAUDED FOR THEIR COMMUNITY SERVICE

Tysons, VA, October 16 – The nonprofit Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP) commemorated its 44th year fighting drunk driving and underage drinking today via the organization’s 2026 Annual Meeting and WRAPPY Awards ceremony held at the Tower Club in Tysons, Virginia and where is bestowed the following honors:

2026 Community Partnership Award

  • AAA Club Alliance
  • Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

2026 Law Enforcement Award

  • Arlington County Police Department

2026 Youth Leadership Award

  • Freedom High School, Chantilly, Virginia

2026 Media Partnership Award

  • FOX 5 DC

2026 Public Service Award

  • Dana Schrad, Retired, Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police

2026 Chairman’s Award

  • Responsibility.org

2026 Public Partnership Award

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

2026 Corporate Sponsorship Award (contributing $ 5,000 or more to WRAP in FY 2026):

  • Anheuser-Busch
  • Beer Institute
  • Chesapeake Region Safety Council
  • Constellation Brands
  • Enterprise Holdings
  • Giant Food
  • Glory Days Grill
  • Molson Coors
  • New Belgium Brewing
  • Responsibility.org
  • Transurban (Operator of 495, 95 and 395 Express Lanes)
  • Washington Area New Automobile Dealers Association

2026 Corporate Partnership Award:

  • Diageo

WRAP today also elected the following officers: Mike Young (GEICO), Chairman; Officer Jayme Derbyshire (Montgomery County Department of Police), Vice Chairman; Debbie Jennings (Chesapeake Region Safety Council), Secretary; Jim Fell (James C. Fell Consulting, LLC), Treasurer; and Deputy Chief David Huchler (Vienna Police Department), Immediate Past Chairman.

The charity also elected Rick Birt (BusPatrol) and Lieutenant David Ryan (Maryland State Police) to its Board of Directors.

In addition, WRAP today elected the following three individuals as organizational Members: Sergeant James Burleson (Fairfax County Police Department); Lauren DeMarco (Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office); and Senior Corporal Michael Rose (Prince George’s County Police Department).

Sponsors of WRAP’s 2026 Annual Meeting & WRAPPY Awards included AAA Club Alliance, Breakthru Beverage Group, Madison+Main, McAndrew Company, 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.