Prevention Summit

Prevention Summit Workshop Handouts

“How to Get Youth Excited About Prevention” (Not Available)
Milton Creagh, PRIDE Youth Programs, Atlanta, Georgia

“Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol” (PDF)
Karen Heys, Youth Leadership Institute, San Francisco, CA

“Community-Based Approach to Methamphetamine Prevention” (PDF)
Angela Goldberg, San Diego County Meth Prevention Strike Force

“Stanislaus County Underage Drinking” (PDF)
Nic Frietas, Center for Human Services - Crowd Project, Modesto, CA

“Marijuana 1960-2007” (PDF)
Ralph Cantor, Center for Applied Research Solutions

“Faith-Based Approach to Prevention” (Not Available)
Milton Creagh, PRIDE Youth Programs, Atlanta, Georgia

“What We're Doing About Underage Drinking in our Neighborhood” (Pending)
Esther Rosario, Director, Casa De Rio, Riverbank, CA

New laws taking aim at underage drinking

Cities put heat on parents to oversee teens at parties
From the Modesto Bee. Cities throughout the region are coming down harder on adults who allow underage drinking.

The trend locally toward enacting underage drinking liability ordinances began in Modesto and has spread to Waterford. Ceres could have one within a month, and Oakdale is considering one, too. The city councils in Patterson and Turlock are expected to take up the issue this summer.

Read the complete story here.

Teens with Money More Likely to Drink Heavily, Study Finds

From Join Together.

Getting a big allowance may be a risk factor for heavy drinking among teens, a British study suggests.

Reuters reported May 28 that a study of more than 10,000 15- and 16-year-olds concluded that those who received the most money from their parents were more likely to binge drink, buy alcohol, and drink in public. Those who bought their own alcohol were three times more likely than their peers to drink frequently and twice as likely to be regular binge drinkers.

The study hinted that some risky drinking may simply be the result of youths having money to spend on alcohol. The findings indicate that parents should keep better tabs on how kids spend their money and that government needs to do a better job of preventing alcohol sales to minors, said lead study author Mark A. Bellis of Liverpool John Moores University.

The study was published in the May 10, 2007 issue of the journal Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention and Policy.