Drive to Work – Restoring Driving Privileges

Drive-to-Work is a nonprofit that helps low-income or formerly incarcerated people in Virginia restore their driving privileges. “Recognizing how important a driver’s license is to many jobs, Drive-To-Work provides legal and other services and is the only organization in Virginia directly addressing this issue.” This nonprofit provides individual services for clients: driver’s license restoration, driver education clinics and courses, and seminars and presentations on restoring one’s driving privileges.

You can visit Drive-to-Work’s website here. 

Key Findings

• There are 974,394 Virginia drivers with suspended driver’s licenses.
• “Nearly 1,900 job categories require a driver’s license.”
• This organization hosts the annual “Second Chance Community Luncheon” which “brings together the legal and governmental communities to learn more about the plight of the unlicensed driver, to meet successful clients and to acknowledge Drive-To-Work’s accomplishments in sustaining our mission.”