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Ken DailExecutive Director, Prevention NetworkCoordinator, Michigan Coalition to Reduce Underage DrinkingPO Box 4458East Lansing, MI 48826800-968-4968Fax – 517-393-6890twitter.com/pnmichigankend@preventionnetwork.org
GOALS FOR TODAY:1. Help you help parents understand why
teens drink (as a hint, it’s the same reason they do almost anything)
2. Help you help parents to ask the four critical questions that, if answered honestly, can reduce underage drinking.
3. Share some resources that you can share with parents to reduce underage drinking.
WHY DO TEENS DO WHAT THEY DO?
(Make a fist and start at the bottom)
So why DO they drink?
1. They aren’t really too good with the whole risk/reward equation thing.
Sledding
Merry-go-round
Critical Condition
So why DO they drink?
1. They aren’t really too good with the whole risk/reward equation thing.
2. Even when they get it, they can’t quite process it.
Rope Stunt
So why DO they drink?
1. They aren’t really too good with the whole risk/reward equation thing.
2. Even when they get it, they can’t quite process it.
3. The rewards are sometimes over exaggerated.
So why DO they drink?1. They aren’t really too good with the whole
risk/reward equation thing.2. Even when they get it, they can’t quite
process it.3. The rewards are sometimes over
exaggerated.4. The consequences are sometimes under
exaggerated.
So why DO they drink?1. They aren’t really too good with the whole
risk/reward equation thing.2. Even when they get it, they can’t quite process
it.3. The rewards are sometimes over exaggerated.4. The consequences are sometimes under
exaggerated.5. We don’t always have the best parenting
skills.
GOALS FOR TODAY:1. Help you help parents understand why
teens drink (as a hint, it’s the same reason they do almost anything)
2. Help you help parents to ask the four critical questions that, if answered honestly, can reduce underage drinking.
3. Share some resources that you can share with parents to reduce underage drinking.
1. Where do youth get alcohol?
2. Where do youth use alcohol?
3. Why do youth get away with using alcohol?
4. What makes youth think they want to use alcohol?
2. Where do youth use alcohol?
2. Where do youth use alcohol?
2. Where do youth use alcohol?
3. Why do youth get away with using alcohol?
Elephantwww.parentsempowered.org
3. Why do youth get away with using alcohol?Kids used to drink behind their parents’ backs.
Now, it’s their parents who are doing the pouring.
www.alcoholpolicymd.com
4. What makes youth think they want to use alcohol?
GOALS FOR TODAY:1. Help you help parents understand why
teens drink (as a hint, it’s the same reason they do almost anything)
2. Help you help parents to ask the four critical questions that, if answered honestly, can reduce underage drinking.
3. Share some resources that you can share with parents to reduce underage drinking.
For individual parents looking
for resources
Hang Gliderwww.parentsempowered.org
www.drugfree.org/teenbrain
MCRUD PAM Parent Teen Pledge card
www.theantidrug.com
www.stopalcoholabuse.gov
For parent groups already organized or
trying to organize
pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/AA78/AA78.pdf
ALCOHOL ALERT #78, JULY, 2009:A DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE ON
UNDERAGE ALCOHOL USE
www.casacolumbia.org
www.drugfreeactionalliance.org
http://www.notnrhouse.org/
www.parentsempowered.org
www.thepowerofparents.org
www.mcrud.org/pages/program_ideas.htm
www.faceproject.org
And on and on and on and on…
You can follow MCRUD on Facebook.com and @mcrud on twitter.com
You can follow Prevention Network Michigan @pnmichigan on twitter.com
You can friend me on Facebook.com and follow me @kendail on twitter.com
Ken DailExecutive Director, Prevention NetworkCoordinator, Michigan Coalition to Reduce Underage DrinkingPO Box 4458East Lansing, MI 48826800-968-4968Fax – 517-393-6890twitter.com/pnmichigankend@preventionnetwork.org
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