Underage Drinking Prevention&Social Marketing Project

In 2005, 49 traffic fatalities in WV occurred involving drivers aged 16-20. Among these young drivers, 24% had a BAC level of .08 or higher

Source: NHTSA 2006

March 16, 2010

Announcements

The 2010 EUDL Public Service Announcement contest is now underway. Deadline for submission is March 31, 2010. Click here for the application and contest rules. Please contact Stephanie Anthony at Stephanie.Anthony@marshall.edu if you have any questions.
Stephanie Anthony (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 Anthony. Click here for more information about this project.

News

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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.

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

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SADD: Saving Lives Since 1981

West Virginia Students Against Destructive Decisions

Check out WVSADD at www.wvsadd.org!

For more information about SADD and its initiatives, contact Travis Helmondollar.


	The Underage Drinking Prevention and Social Marketing Project at the West Virginia Prevention Resource Center is federally funded though the following grants: The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention's Substance Abuse Prevention & Treatment Block Grant administered through the WV Bureau for Behavioral Health and Health Facilities; The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Enforcing the Underage Drinking Laws (EUDL) Grant administered through the WV Division of Criminal Justice Services; and The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention's Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant also administered through the WV Division of Criminal Justice Services. This project is also supported in part by funds from the WV Governor's Highway Safety Program.