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Leadership Academy: Youth Leaders in Action

Youth Led Town Hall Meeting on Underage Drinking Prevention

  Napa County is one of hundreds of communities nationwide that held a Town Hall Meeting on Underage Drinking Prevention in April 2008 to discuss and raise awareness about the issue of underage drinking. 25 of Napa’s teen-age youth organized, hosted and lead this major community event that had over 200 participants!

Hosts of this meeting included:
Violence Is Preventable Youth Team of the Leadership Academy Youth Leaders in Action (Leadership Academy)
• Catalyst Coalition
• V.O.I.C.E.S. (Voices Our Independent Choices for Emancipation Support)
• Napa County Office of Education
• Napa Valley Unified School District
• With sponsorship from the Federal Government’s Interagency Coordinating Committee for the Prevention of Underage Drinking

Participants in the meeting included:
• Youth ages 12-24
• Parents
• Educators
• Community leaders
• Law enforcement
• Elected officials

During our Town Hall Meeting, participants:
• Played a quiz game about facts on underage drinking
• Received information about the issue of under age drinking from manycommunity organizations that help prevent and reduce underage drinking
• Discussed their opinions and possible solutions to this issue in focus groups with both adults and youth See the results from this discussion (raw data)

 

The Wall of Commitment

Participants made commitments ranging from: "I commit to be the example" to "I will eat dinner with my family four times a week."

Youth Project to Address Underage Drinking: 4th and 5th graders from McPherson Elementary will create storyboards about healthy choices for pre-teens that will be distributed to schools and families. One of these storyboards will be turned into a short film that will be aired on public access television in Napa.

 

Listen to and read all about our Under Age Drinking Town Hall Meeting in the radio segment and newspaper article attached below!

LAYLA on KVON 99.3 - 4/9/08

Napa Valley Register features the Town Hall Meeting for Underage Drinking Prevention

Town Hall Meeting Photos

 

LAYLA - Leadership Academy: Youth Leaders in Action

 

 

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