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What You Can
Do to Make a Difference:
- Report illegal commercial alcohol
sales -
- Refuse to supply alcohol to
underage youth in your home or on your property
- Store alcohol (under lock and key)
or some place out of reach of youth
- Schedule a Speakers
Bureau presentation for your local group
- Support local law enforcement
efforts
Parents CAN...
- Know your child's friends’
parents and set up a "Parent
Network"
- Talk with other parents/adults to
make sure that alcohol is not available at the events youth will
attend
- Talk and listen to your children
- Provide a consistent family policy
re: no teen drinking and set consequences you will carry out
- Check your children's ID’s, make
sure they don't have fake ID's
- Set a good example for responsible
adult alcohol use, if you choose to drink
Merchants CAN...
- Hire, train and supervise responsible staff to keep
business in compliance with alcohol sales laws
- Attend Policy Workshop for
licensees; learn business best practices for responsible alcohol
sales & service
- Develop comprehensive written policies; include
requirement to ID everyone or at a minimum ID anyone under age
40
- Use comprehensive and effective employee training
programs
- Use tools for verifying customers age; age calendars, ID
signage, etc.
- Supervise and monitor employee compliance with company
policies and state and local laws
Law Enforcement CAN...
- Conduct
2 compliance checks in each licensed alcohol establishment each year
- Conduct
regular walk-through of licensed establishments
- Develop
a system to monitor alcohol-related problems associated with
community events and specific establishments
- Conduct
party dispersal operations as a means to control underage drinking
parties, citing adult providers in addition to youth in possession
of alcohol
- Consistently
enforce laws against adult providers and social hosts
- Ask
underage youth who are caught drinking to disclose the source of
their alcohol
Government CAN...
- Develop laws, ordinances, policies,
etc. to address commercial availability, social/public availability,
and youth possession
- Use licensing and regulatory
"best practices" to control alcohol landscape and protect
public health and safety
- Use land use planning to control
retail outlet density
- Assess existing laws and
regulations to identify and close gaps and loopholes
- Identify strengths upon which
effective enforcement strategies can be built
- Motivate enforcement and regulatory
agencies to strengthen enforcement of exiting laws and regulations
Youth CAN...
- Help everyone focus on the positive
- not all teens drink
- Be an advocate for community
change; challenge adult assumptions.
- Ask to see school's written policy,
read it, talk about it with others, suggest improvements
- Partner with law enforcement in
compliance check operations
- Partner with peers and adults to
create alcohol-free events
- Partner with media; write series of
articles on alcohol issues/topics that affect youth
Media CAN...
- Use unique position to advance
social and public policy goals to reduce underage drinking
- Become informed about the issues,
solutions and "best practices"
- Cover stories about what is being
done to prevent problems; not just report consequences of underage
drinking incidences
- Develop PSA's on dangers of
underage drinking to offset one-sided advertising messages that
glamorize drinking
- Limit alcohol ad product placements
to TV, radio and magazines with majority adult only audiences
- Be an advocate for community
change; challenge community assumptions
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