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What is the New Hampshire Teen Driver Program?
It is a program of the Injury Prevention Center at Dartmouth Health. The Youth Operator Program Coordinator develops, organizes and promotes the sustainability of a comprehensive injury prevention program focusing on traffic safety issues for novice youth operators.
There is collaboration with the New Hampshire’s Office of Highway Safety, Dartmouth Health Children’s, and New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services Injury Prevention Program and many other partners to address leading traffic safety and other injury issues based on statewide, regional, and national data. In addition, promotion of evidence-based practices in injury prevention.
Heather is a firefighter and Advanced EMT and has been serving the community since 2010 in various capacities. At the beginning of her career, she volunteered in her hometown as an EMT on a 9-1-1 ambulance where she witnessed firsthand the outcomes of motor vehicle accidents, some involving her own peers. She continued to advance her training to be of more service in the capacity as a firefighter and an Advanced EMT. She attended Granite State College (now recognized as University of New Hampshire College of Professional Studies) where she received her Bachelor of Science degree in Public Service Administration prior to her commission in the United States Navy. Following her service in 2019, she returned to emergency medicine and served as an Emergency Department technician for the next two years assisting in the care of critically sick and injured patients in an oversaturated ED. During this time, she was involved in the care of infants and adolescents involved in motor vehicle accidents, some being fatal. After spending years in a response capacity for emergencies, she now aspires to work upstream in prevention where she aims to make a difference in shifting youth perspectives about how they get behind the wheel. Heather became the Youth Operator Program Coordinator in June 2026 and is committed to supporting communities through education, collaboration, and the promotion of evidence-based practices in injury prevention.
