Volunteer & Community Service
Make a difference while helping SafeRide America prevent impaired driving. Volunteer for personal reasons, school requirements, court-ordered community service, pretrial or diversion requirements, or other approved service needs.
You can manage the process yourself at no cost, or choose an optional paid support service if you want SafeRide staff to provide additional administrative help, scheduling assistance, verification, or progress reporting.
Choose Your Volunteer Support Option
You never have to pay to volunteer with SafeRide. Our free Self-Service option provides everything many volunteers need. The paid options below are available if you want SafeRide staff to provide additional personal assistance, scheduling help, verification, or progress reporting.
Self-Service Volunteer Portal
Manage your volunteer experience yourself through SafeRide’s online volunteer portal with little or no staff assistance.
Scroll down to view four optional support levels.
Managed Volunteer Support
Prefer having a real person help manage the process? SafeRide staff can assist with registration, scheduling, waitlists, hour tracking, documentation, and questions throughout your volunteer experience.
Verified Community Service
Get enhanced documentation, accountability, and progress visibility throughout your community-service experience instead of relying only on a completion letter at the end.
Priority Managed Support
Designed for volunteers with limited availability, tighter deadlines, or difficulty finding enough standard SafeRide opportunities that fit their schedule.
Verified + Priority Community Service
SafeRide’s most comprehensive support option combines enhanced scheduling assistance with ongoing verification, accountability, documentation, and authorized progress reporting.
What’s the Difference?
The free option lets you manage everything yourself. The paid options add increasing levels of staff involvement.
| Feature | Free | $59 Managed |
$129 Verified |
$149 Priority |
$219 Verified + Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online registration & portal | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Personal staff assistance | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling & waitlist help | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Enhanced priority scheduling | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Additional capacity coordination | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Enhanced verified recordkeeping | — | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Authorized ongoing progress reporting | — | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
How It Works
Register free or choose the paid level of support that fits your circumstances.
Provide accurate information about your hours, availability, deadline, and service requirements.
Select legitimate SafeRide opportunities and actually perform the assigned volunteer service.
SafeRide records completed service and provides documentation consistent with the option you selected.
Volunteer With SafeRide America
Watch this short video to learn more about volunteering with SafeRide America and what you can expect from the experience.
Volunteer Opportunities
SafeRide offers both driving and non-driving opportunities. Availability varies based on SafeRide’s current operational needs, staffing, events, and projects.
Chase Driver
One of SafeRide’s primary volunteer opportunities is serving as a Chase Driver with a professional SafeRide lead driver.
1. Meet your SafeRide driver.
You are paired with a professional lead driver for the shift.
2. Drive to customer pickups.
You use your own vehicle to transport the SafeRide driver to the customer’s location.
3. Follow the customer’s vehicle.
The SafeRide lead driver drives the customer in the customer’s own vehicle while you follow in your vehicle.
4. Continue working as a team.
After the ride, you pick up the SafeRide driver and continue to the next assignment.
Non-Driving & Special Projects
Depending on SafeRide’s current needs, other legitimate volunteer opportunities may include:
Not every type of opportunity is available every day.
Before Signing Up as a Chase Driver
If you cannot participate as a driving volunteer, review our non-driving opportunities or contact SafeRide about other legitimate assignments that may be available.
Transportation, Accessibility, or Other Special Circumstances?
Do not automatically assume that you cannot volunteer. Depending on SafeRide’s current needs, we may have a non-driving or alternative legitimate service opportunity that works for your circumstances. Alternative assignments are not guaranteed, and all credited community-service hours must represent actual work performed.
Completion Letters & Service Records
Volunteers sometimes need documentation for a court, probation office, attorney, school, employer, or another organization.
The paid Volunteer Support options include SafeRide’s standard emailed PDF completion letter once your applicable service is complete.
Self-Service volunteers may request completion documentation separately. Signed originals, mailed documents, expedited processing, overnight delivery, or other special documentation may involve additional charges.
Volunteer Support FAQ
Do I have to pay to volunteer with SafeRide?
No. SafeRide’s Self-Service Volunteer Portal is available at no charge. Paid Volunteer Support Services are optional and provide additional staff assistance, scheduling coordination, verification, or reporting.
What is the difference between Verified and Priority?
Verified Community Service focuses on documentation, accountability, progress monitoring, and authorized reporting. Priority Managed Support focuses on enhanced scheduling assistance and additional capacity when it can reasonably be arranged. Verified + Priority combines both.
Does Priority Support guarantee I will finish before my deadline?
No. Priority Support gives SafeRide additional flexibility and staff resources to work on difficult scheduling situations. Successful completion still depends on factors such as your required hours, remaining time, availability, attendance, supervision, and legitimate service opportunities.
Will my court or probation office accept SafeRide?
Requirements vary among courts, probation offices, diversion programs, attorneys, schools, employers, and other organizations. You are responsible for confirming that SafeRide America and the type of volunteer work you perform satisfy the requirements of the organization requiring your service.
What happens after I purchase a paid support service?
Your confirmation email will explain the next steps. Paid Volunteer Support customers will be directed to schedule a remote Volunteer Support Meeting by phone or Zoom so SafeRide can review their service needs and activate the appropriate support.
What if I do not have a car?
SafeRide periodically offers non-driving opportunities. Availability varies, so review current opportunities or contact us to discuss your circumstances.
Important Information About Community-Service Credit
SafeRide America’s paid Volunteer Support Services cover additional administrative assistance, scheduling coordination, monitoring, verification, and reporting. Regardless of which support option you select, SafeRide records and credits only community service that has been actually completed and verified.
Requirements vary among courts, probation offices, pretrial and diversion programs, attorneys, schools, employers, and other organizations. If your service is required by another organization, you are responsible for confirming that SafeRide America and the volunteer assignment you select meet that organization’s requirements.
Start With the Option That Fits You
Begin free through the Self-Service Volunteer Portal or return to the support options above if you want SafeRide staff to provide additional assistance.
Questions? Call SafeRide America at 404-888-0887 or email info@saferideamerica.org.
