Advent Learning’s Traffic Program is a comprehensive online platform designed to help prosecutors and courts handle diversions, dismissals, reductions, or deferrals for qualified defendants, filling the gap between ticket forgiveness and court. It provides a valuable alternative to state traffic schools, clears dockets of many traffic offenses, and can even provide an additional fee revenue stream, augmenting budgets while costing nothing to implement.
Drivers appreciate the convenience of online application, payments, course completion, and test-taking from the comfort of their own homes, avoiding further penalties or contact with the criminal justice system. Advent’s Traffic Program significantly improves defendants’ driving habits, making your jurisdiction a safer place to travel.
The platform offers many flexible features that can be customized to meet unique needs. Outreach to defendants is done through online applications, eliminating paperwork. Fee handling and the ability to choose the length of the course is available online. Task completion emails and legal paperwork for reductions, dismissals, and other legal requirements are also part of the system. The program provides a comprehensive view of program progress for individuals and generates reports that show its effectiveness and track demographic data points.
Advent eLearning offers over 25 online, evidence-based, offense-specific courses to assign for almost any case that comes across your desk, and a cloud-based platform to manage and track the successful completion of behavior modification courses and other assignments. With Advent eLearning, prosecutors can efficiently monitor and track student progress while fully automating the process.
The Advent eLearning Traffic Safety program has been used by prosecutors across the country for nearly a decade in citation diversion, deferral, and reduction programs. The program offers a complete package for management, high-quality online education experiences, certification, and payment that provides your agency with a profit center. The positive preventive experience gives offenders a new beginning to a more responsible life, keeping them from being confined with and influenced by hardened criminals.
Program management tools provide agencies with an efficient platform to monitor progress, create reports, and fully manage participants. Assigning agencies can enroll individuals directly in courses or allow them to self-enroll, illustrating accountability. Advent’s unique Course Link assigns each agency its own personal URL to get students directly to their agency or courses. This personal URL can be texted, emailed, integrated into marketing materials, and placed on agency websites.
Assigned offenders make payments online as they enter the eLearning platform, with automated matching of the payment history, performance, and certification of completion tracked by individual every step of the way. Agencies also have the ability to track and monitor community service, probation, auto insurance, and restitution electronically, rather than dealing with inefficient and cumbersome paper-trails. Advent eLearning also offers an audit trail of cases and reporting to measure the success of each program.
Advent eLearning will soon release new courses to expand its catalog of behavioral driving education, including courses for Defensive Driving and Misdemeanor Traffic. The Defensive Driving course will be an expanded version of Traffic Safety to include more accident avoidance scenarios, while the Misdemeanor Traffic program will combine behavioral driving instruction with anti-social intervention programming to address vehicular misdemeanors beyond vehicle code enforcement.
The Traffic Safety course is a succinct one-hour program that focuses on aggressive driving behavior such as speeding, tailgating, traffic control device violations, lane-space violations, and distracted driving. It is not just a rehash of the rote learning of a state driver’s manual. Rather, the methodology provides for scenario-based training of real-life examples of accident causation and avoidance strategies.
According to Evans (2004), driving instruction can be distinguished between driver performance and driver behavior. Driver performance training teaches drivers what they CAN do, while behavioral training teaches what a driver DOES do. Driver performance relates to the technical skills and knowledge required for safe driving, while driver behavior focuses on the attitudes, habits, and decision-making processes that influence how a driver interacts with the road and other drivers.
Advent eLearning’s Traffic Safety course goes beyond teaching basic driving skills and rules of the road. The course is designed to help drivers develop a safer driving mindset, identify and correct bad driving habits, and avoid behaviors that can lead to accidents or traffic violations.
The course is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on behavioral driving, including the impact of attitudes on driving behavior and how to cultivate a mindset that promotes responsible driving. This section covers the average ticket-getter, the role of stress in driving behavior, and the importance of driving attitude.
The second part of the course is dedicated to defending against aggressive drivers, covering topics such as tailgating, speeding, traffic control devices, lane and space violations, impaired and distracted driving, and how to avoid collisions with aggressive drivers.
Finally, the third part of the course provides a final review of the material covered and outlines the next steps drivers can take to continue improving their driving skills and reducing the risk of accidents or traffic violations.
Advent eLearning’s Traffic Safety course is evidence-based and designed to help reduce recidivism rates among offenders. According to a study conducted by the Kentucky Division of Probation and Parole, only 25.7% of individuals who completed an Advent eLearning course were rearrested for any offense within two years, compared to 37.2% of individuals who completed a traditional traffic school course.
In addition to the Traffic Safety course, Advent eLearning offers over 25 online, evidence-based, offense-specific courses that can be assigned for almost any case that comes across a prosecutor’s desk. These courses are designed to provide an alternative to traditional punishment and help offenders develop the skills and habits they need to avoid reoffending.
Advent eLearning’s platform is flexible and designed to meet the unique needs of each agency. The online application process eliminates the need for paper and allows offenders to apply and pay online, take the course, and pass the test from the comfort of their own homes, avoiding any further penalties or contact with the criminal justice system. The platform also provides an agency-wide view of program progress, including who has paid, and generates reports to show the effectiveness of the program and track demographic data points.
The platform also provides an audit trail of cases and funds collection, making it easy for agencies to track and monitor the student experience. Offenders make payments online as they enter the eLearning platform, with automated matching of the payment history, performance, and certification of completion tracked by individual every step of the way. Agencies also have the ability to track and monitor community service, probation, auto insurance, and restitution electronically, rather than dealing with inefficient and cumbersome paper-trails.
Advent eLearning’s Traffic Program is a powerful tool for prosecutors and courts looking to increase efficiencies within their organization, clear their docket of less serious offenses, and provide an alternative to traditional punishment that can help reduce recidivism rates and promote safer driving habits. The platform is easy to use, flexible, and designed to meet the unique needs of each agency, providing a comprehensive solution for managing and tracking the successful completion of behavior modification courses and other assignments.
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