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Work with sponsors of community or ethnic holiday events to ensure that such events do not promote a culture in which underage drinking is acceptable.
Here are some of the ways communities can help promote healthy celebrations and festivities:
- Help youth develop critical skills to deconstruct holiday-themed marketing and other media messages linking alcohol and good times.
- Sponsor events like a First Night alcohol-free and family-friendly community celebration.
- Develop and promote a list of venues and events conducive to alcohol-free programming, such as movie nights, a local zoo, and museums.
- Establish alcohol-free areas at public events such as parades and street festivals.
- Prohibit underage youth from any area where alcohol is served. Keep people from leaving the specified area with alcoholic beverages.
- Sponsor special activities for underage youth.
- Establish and enforce procedures for selling, possessing, and consuming alcohol at the event.
- Prohibit participants from bringing their own alcohol to the event.
- Ensure that nonalcoholic drinks are available.
Useful Links
www.theantidrug.com
TheAntiDrug.com serves as a drug prevention information center, and a supportive community for parents to interact and learn from each other. The site provides parents and other adults caregivers access to: Helpful articles and advice from experts in the fields of parenting and substance abuse prevention; Science-based drug prevention information, news and studies; Support from other parents striving to keep their children drug-free; Perspectives of teens themselves.
WhatsMySPF.org :
A prevention resource tool designed for parents to address the issue of underage drinking in the Pennsbury area. The website, funded by SAMHSA focuses on how to prevent the onset and reduce the progression of childhood and underage drinking.
Check out this Youth Against Smoking Video
2young2drink.com is managed by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission under the Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws Program. It offers resources and statistics about the laws governing underage drinking.
www.2young2drink.com
Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free, a unique coalition ofGoverner's spouses, Federal agencies, and public and private organizations, is an initiative to prevent the use of alcohol by children ages 9 to 15.
http://alcoholfreechildren.org/
Area Substance Abuse Council (ASAC) provides accessible comprehensible substance abuse treatment and prevention services designed to enhance the quality of life for individuals, families, and communities in East Central Iowa.
www.asac.us
The Century Council is a leader in the fight against drunk driving and underage drinking and promotes responsible decision making regarding beverage alcohol.
www.centurycouncil.com
Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board's resource for parents, law enforcement, teachers, and youths.
http://www.dontletminorsdrink.com/home.shtml
Designed for parents and other adults involved in the lives of 7- to 18-year-olds, the Family Guide Web site emphasizes the importance of family, promotes mental health, and helps prevent underage use of alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs.
www.family.samhsa.gov
The Family Talk Program helps prevent underage drinking by encouraging open, honest communication between parents and children.
www.familytalkonline.com
FOCUS ADOLESCENT SERVICES is the largest and most comprehensive Internet site of information and resources on teen and family issues to help and support families with troubled and at-risk teens.
www.focusas.com
Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board offers resources for education about responsible alcohol use and ways to prevent underage drinking
www.lcb.state.pa.us/
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) strives to stop drunk driving, support the victims of this violent crime, and prevent underage drinking.
www.MADD.org
MVParents.com is a parenting Web site that will give you the information and support that you need to help your kids grow up to be healthy, caring, and responsible adults.
www.mvparents.com
Pushing Back is a blog about the progress being made to make America's drug problem smaller.
http://pushingback.com/blogs/pushing_back/default.aspx
SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) is the Nation's one-stop resource for information about substance abuse prevention and addiction treatment.
http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/
A new article from Science Daily about how kids connect alcohol odors with their mothers' emotions.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080625090307.htm
StopAlcoholAbuse.Gov is a comprehensive portal of Federal resources for information on underage drinking and ideas for combating this issue.
www.stopalcoholabuse.gov
TheAntiDrug.com serves as a drug prevention information center, and a supportive community for parents to interact and learn from each other.
www.theantidrug.com
YAERD is a tool for Realty Development, and also offers a page on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse.
www.yaerd.org/alcohol-abuse-alcoholism.htm
What's Driving You is an interactive, thought-provoking experience is for young adults (and their parents, friends and teachers) who are concerned about drinking and driving.
www.whatsdrivingyou.org