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WV News
- The 2008 EUDL Public Service Announcements will be distributed in October.
Please contact Stephanie Southall at
Stephanie.Southall@marshall.edu
if you would like a copy.
- THANK YOU! to the 30 plus communities across the state of West Virginia who
participated
in the 2008 Town Hall Meetings for Underage Drinking Prevention. The project was
a nationwide endeavor sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service
Administration (SAMHSA). SAMHSA provided $500.00 stipends directly to the
participating communities.
- Stephanie Southall (Underage Drinking Prevention Specialist) and Biddy Bostic
(Synar Compliance Specialist) have begun a joint alcohol and tobacco merchant
education project. The purpose of the project is to provide community
organizations with information and tips to pass on to retailers to reduce sales
of alcohol and tobacco to underage customers, thus limiting the retail access of
these products to youth. If your organization is interested in
participating please contact Stephanie Southall.
Click here for more
information about this project.
National News
- Leading U.S. brewer Anheuser-Busch has agreed to stop selling energy drinks
containing alcohol in response to an investigation by a group of state attorneys
general, Reuters reported June 26, 2008. To read the full article at Join
Together Online,
click here.
- About half of U.S. youths under age 21 have consumed alcohol, and of these 40 percent said
that they got their drinks for free from an adult during the past month, a new
survey finds. To read the full article at Join Together Online,
click here.
Need help getting started?
The PRC helps communities solve their own problems. If you or your
group is interested in working on preventing underage drinking locally, we can help
you get started. If you've already started, we can help you keep going.
We offer assistance on a wide variety of topics from coalition development to finding
your vision, strategic planning to program implementation, evaluation to resource
development and everything in between. If you have a specific topic that you
want training on, don't hesitate to contact us- we usually have someone on staff
that is qualified to develop the training that you and your community have need
of.
Upcoming Electronic Seminars from the UDETC
OJJDP's Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center offers regular trainings through
an electronic format. If you're interested in "attending" any of these
seminars, please click here
or contact Stephanie Southall
at 304-766-6301 ext 25 for instructions. Upcoming seminars include:
Sept 25, 2008
@ 3:00 - 4:15 p.m. |
Alcohol and the Developing Brain: Effects of alcohol on pre-adolescent and
adolescent brain development |
Oct 23, 2008
@ 3:00 - 4:15 p.m. |
Cyberspace |
Nov 20, 2008
@ 3:00 - 4:15 p.m. |
Sustaining Success |
Dec 18, 2008
@ 3:00 - 4:15 p.m. |
Challenges and Successes of Rural Law Enforcement |
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The WVPRC proposes to coordinate state-level system efforts to
build the capacity of individuals and organizations to prevent and reduce childhood
and underage drinking
For archived News & Events, click here.
SADD25: Saving Lives Since 1981
West Virginia Students Against Destructive Decisions
As WVSADD celebrates its 25th anniversary, chapters in the Mountain State are leading
the way in peer-to-peer prevention education. Approximately twenty new SADD chapters
have been established in West Virginia during the past year, and we are growing
everyday!
WVSADD has also unveiled a new website! Check it out at
www.wvsadd.org!
For more information about SADD and its initiatives, contact Travis Helmondollar.
RSS Feed
RSS (Really Simple Syndication, RSS 2.0) is a way of allowing people to subscribe
to the content of a particular site. The IT staff at the PRC is currently working
with Stephanie Southall and the Underage Drinking Prevention Workgroup to develop
an RSS feed (a way of streaming information directly to subscribers) for
underage drinking. It would act as an underage drinking prevention news clearinghouse
for the state of West Virginia. If you have questions about RSS in general, when
subscription will be available, or how to subscribe, please contact
Stephanie Southall.
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