Underage DrinkingNot a Minor Problem

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Underage DrinkingNot a Minor Problem

• Town Hall Meetings
• March and April, 2008

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What do we need to do to reduce underage drinking
in our community?
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Information

• What do we know about underage drinking?

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A little bit about data.

• The PNA survey measures youth use of substances
  as well as Risk and Protective Factors in the
  community, Family, School, and Individual/Peer
  Domains.
• In 2004 and 2006 Ingham County 6, 8, 10 and 12th
  grade students participated in the Mid-South
  Substance Abuse Commission Prevention Needs
  Assessment (PNA) Survey offered by Mid-South
  Substance Abuse Commission.
• The PNA was implemented by Mid-South across their
  10-county region and offers regional and national
  comparisons.

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Alcohol is the drug of choice among 12th grade
youth
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Lifetime Use of Alcohol (2006 PNA)
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30-Day Alcohol (2006 PNA)
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Binge DrinkingBinge Drinking can be defined as
consuming five or more drinks in a row during the
two weeks prior to the survey.
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Risk and Protective FactorsHawkins and Catalano

• University of Washington Research Specialists

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Risk Factors

• Community Risk Factors include
• Perceived availability of Drugs and Firearms
• Community Laws and Norms favorable toward drug
  use, firearms and crime
• Transitions and mobility
• Low neighborhood attachment
• Community disorganization
• Extreme poverty

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Perceived availability of drugs(In communities
where youth perceive that drugs are more
available, drug use is higher)
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Risk Factors --Family

• Family Risk Factors
• Family History of the Problem Behavior
• Family Management Problems
• Family Conflict
• Favorable Parent Attitudes and Involvement in the
  Problem Behaviors

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Parents Attitudes Favorable to Drug Use
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Protective Factors

• Includes individual characteristics
• Innate characteristics including gender,
  resilient temperament, positive social
  orientation and intelligence (intelligence alone
  does not protect against substance abuse)
  Individual characteristics are hard to change!
• Bonding
• Includes opportunities for active involvement
• Development of skills to be successful
  contributors
• Consistent recognition or reinforcement for their
  efforts
• Healthy Beliefs and Clear Standards
• Bonding must occur through involvement with peers
  and adults who communicate healthy values and set
  clear standards for behavior

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Individual Protective Factors in Ingham County

• 6th grade Social skills (53.2), interaction
  with pro-social peer (52.1)
• 8th grade Social skills (57.6), interaction
  with pro-social peers (56.1)
• 10th grade Social skills (57.1), interaction
  with pro-social peers (57.8)
• 12th grade Social skills (49.6), interaction
  pro-social peers (53.3)

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Who is trying to get our kids to drink and what?
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What happens to teens brains when they drink?
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What are the legal consequences of teens
use of alcohol?
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Teens Speak
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Discussion question

• What bothers you about the way we (parents,
  community, law enforcement) deal with underage
  drinking now?

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Question 2

• What pleases you about the way that we deal with
  underage drinking now?

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Question 3

• Why should we care about reducing underage
  drinking in Ingham County?

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Question 4

• If we were able to create a new reality where
  kids were less likely to drink alcohol, what
  would it look like?

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Question 5

• Who or what can have an impact on creating that
  reality and how?

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• What do WE need to DO to reduce underage drinking
  in our community?

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Next Steps

• Please leave your contact information if you are
  willing to attend another meeting to begin
  working on this issue.
• Next Meeting is on April 29th, 2008 here at
  Eastern High School.