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Underage Drinking
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Youth in Action
| Youth in Action (YIA) is a MADD program designed to reduce underage drinking by targeting social and retail availability of alcohol for youth under the age of 21 and by supporting the enforcement of underage drinking laws. Youth in Action partner’s youth with law enforcement, educates adults in the community, and targets alcohol sales to minors. By reducing the access of alcohol to minors, this program aims to reduce |
| Mission Statement: To reduce the social and retail availability of alcohol to minors and support enforcement of underage drinking laws. |
Starting a team: Teams consist of groups of youth and at least one adult coordinator after completing applications. Teams have formed within SADD, FCCLA, 4-H, TATU, Y.E.S. Teen Court, and D.A.R.E., but can also be formed through other pre-existing youth groups like churches and community coalitions. Although teams do not have to form within a pre-existing youth organization, stand alone teams may also be trained. The youth and adult/s are then trained by MADD Kentucky State Youth Program Coordinator on how and why to implement the YIA core strategies. Limited funding and on-going support is available from MADD State Office. |
- Core Projects
- Advanced / Alternative Projects
- Compliance Check Applications
- Resources / Forms
- Adult/Youth Information Form
- Adult Background Check Form
- Sticker Shock Project Description
- Sample Sticker Shock Letter to Retailer
- Sample Sticker Shock Letter to Law Enforcement
- Roll Call Project Description
- Sample Roll Call "Sample Script' and "Remarks"
- Model Urban Social Host Ordinance
- Youth in Action Logo
- Visit www.youthinaction.org for national information
- Youth Programs
- THINK!: Year-round program which encourages students to think about the choices they make about alcohol and other drugs, and to pledge to party safe and sober throughout the entire school year. Alcohol is available year-round; alcohol-free messages should be, too.
- Prom and Homecoming Packets may be purchased separately.
- Visit http://www.schoolassembly.org/think/ for ordering information
- Protecting You / Protecting Me: alcohol use prevention curriculum in grades 1-5.
- Program may be taught by a trained adult.
- Program may also be taught by trained group of youth, typically in enrolled in a service learning class and instructed by an adult (Scholarship for this trained are available).
- Visit www.pypm.org.
- AlcoholEdu: High School Web-based course that incorporates proven prevention techniques with essential science-based alcohol education. www.outsidetheclassroom.com.
- UMADD: an official campus organization works to address underage drinking, binge drinking and imparied driving on your campus.
- Similar to Youth in Action, except it works within a college setting and allows the youth more opportunities to get involved as they are older.
- Visit www.umadd.org to learn more.
- MADD Victim Speakers
- **Please keep in mind these speakers are volunteers. Although we try, depending on your time schedule and the amount of notice we may not be able to fulfill all requests.
- **Please keep in mind these speakers are volunteers. Although we try, depending on your time schedule and the amount of notice we may not be able to fulfill all requests.
- Get the Facts
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Alcohol is the No. 1 youth drug problem in America, killing 4-5 times more youth than all other illicit drugs combined.
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Underage Drinking cost Americans appropriately $62-Billion per year (2001), and Kentucky citizens $624-Million annually (2005).
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Since passed in 1984, the 21-law has saved appropriately 17,000 lives, this is about 900 annually.
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7,000 youth die annually due to underage drinking. These deaths are the result of burns, assault, violence, car crashes, suicides, alcohol poisoning, and drowning. Not to mention the other consequences like rape, drop-outs, poor academics, social withdraw, and more.
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Over the last 15 years, after the passage of the 21 minimum drinking age laws, the percentage of 8th, 10th, and 12th graders who drank alcohol in the past year decreased 38%, 23%, and 14%. (Monitoring the Future, 1991-2006)
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Eighteen to 21 year olds are most at risk for alcohol abuse and/or dependence of any age group in the United States – over twelve percent are alcohol dependent. (Grant, et al, 2004) This abuse happens even younger -- the 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), indicates that 5.5 percent of youth ages 12–17 meet the diagnostic criteria for alcohol abuse or dependence. (SAMHSA, 2006)
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95% of alcoholics admit they began drinking before the age of 21.
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Youth who begin drinking before the age of 15 are more than 5 times more likely to become an alcoholic
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www.why21.org