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: |
|
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
|
| LAYLA - Leadership Academy: Youth Leaders in Action |
