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Working with Youth: Empowering Youth to Make a Difference

2009 National Leadership Conference Enforcing the Underage Drinking Laws Program . Working with Youth: Empowering Youth to Make a Difference . Brent Blackburn Felicia Donelson . Learning Objectives :. Participants will learn:

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Working with Youth: Empowering Youth to Make a Difference

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  1. 2009 National Leadership Conference Enforcing the Underage Drinking Laws Program Working with Youth: Empowering Youth to Make a Difference Brent Blackburn Felicia Donelson

  2. Learning Objectives : • Participants will learn: relevant statistics highlighting the trends/prevalence of UAD.  why it is essential to include youth throughout the entire planning process and specific ways to incorporate youth.   share examples of effective partnerships and see effective youth-adult collaboration in action.

  3. Inventory of Adult Attitudes and Behaviors William A. Lofquist and Martin G. Miller, Ph.D.

  4. Underage Drinking Statistics Alcohol Kills more than 5,000 Youth Each Year in the US, which equals 13youth each day. Source: Why Do Adolescents Drink, What Are the Risks, and How Can Underage Drinking Be Prevented?, Number 67, January 2006, NIAAA

  5. Underage Drinking Statistics Fact: In 2006, nearly 2/5ths (37%) of students from the 8th to 12th grades did not view even heavy daily drinking as entailing great risk (Monitoring the Future Report, 2007).

  6. Underage Drinking Statistics Fact: In 2006, Monitoring The Future (MTF) data showed that 11 percent of8th graders, 22 percent of 10th graders, 25 percent of 12th graders, and 40% of college students had engaged in heavy episodic (or “binge”) drinking within the past two weeks (Monitoring the Future Report, 2007). Most kids drink to get drunk consuming four to five drinks at one time. (NIAAA, 2006)

  7. Essential Questions to consider : • How do you view youth in your community? • Resources or Recipients? • Are they Youth-Led; Adult-Assisted ? • What does that mean? • How do we work together ? • Common youth and adult fears • What do Adults Need to Know? • About working with youth

  8. RECRUITMENT • DIVERSITY • PEER TO PEER • USE OF SOCIAL WEBSITES: FACEBOOK/TWITTER/MYSPACE • RECOMMENDATIONS

  9. COMMUNITY INVOLVMENT • NEIGHBORHOOD COALITIONS • SCHOOLS • CHURCHES • RECREATION CENTERS

  10. Youth-Led Adult-AssistedPrograms

  11. Youth-Led Adult-AssistedPrograms • Difference between using youth & involving youth. • Youth are not apart, They are THE part. • Can get sidetracked into “doing a youth program” rather than allowing youth to be the core.

  12. PARTNERSHIPS • Local Radio & Television Stations National Capital Coalition to Prevent Underage Drinking (NCCPUD) has a partnership with NBC 4 • Non Profit Agencies • UDETC: EUDL NATIONAL YOUTH INITIATIVE • FACE: TAKE IT BACK MOVMENT • SADD: STUDENTS AGAINST DESTRUCTIVE DECISIONS • CADCA: COMMUNITY ANTI- DRUG COALITIONS OF AMERICA

  13. ENFORCEMENT • Performing weekly alcohol compliance enforcement operations • Student participation in merchant training • Student participation during state and local hearing concerning underage drinking issues

  14. Sounds Good! But… How Easy is it to Do? Reality is that both adults & youth have to work together to make the program a success. It takes two to tango!!

  15. Youth Components Adult Components • Have to be involved in ALL aspects of project: Ideas, Brainstorming, Planning, Implementation, etc. • Have to be involved in ALL aspects of project: Ideas, Brainstorming, Planning, Implementation, etc. • Need to know that they, and their ideas, are valued and given attention, • Need to support the ideas that come from the youth, • Set the boundaries/limitations • Youth should be creators and inventors; NOT a Focus Group to bounce ideas off, • Should act as Creative Assistants • They need to be given an equal part as the adults involved. Guided Education

  16. Resources • Underage Drinking Training Center EUDL National Youth Initiativewww.udetc.org • Audio-teleconference • Training and Technical Assistance • List serve • Inventory of Adult Attitudes and Behaviors

  17. Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center 11720 Beltsville Drive, Suite 900 Calverton, MD 20705-3102 udetc@udetc.org 1-877-335-1287 www.udetc.org

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