Ken Dail

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Ken Dail Executive Director, Prevention
Network Coordinator, Michigan Coalition to Reduce
Underage Drinking PO Box 4458 East Lansing, MI
48826 800-968-4968 Fax [phone] twitter.com/
pnmichigan kend_at_preventionnetwork.org
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GOALS FOR TODAY

• Help you help parents understand why teens drink
  (as a hint, its the same reason they do almost
  anything)
• Help you help parents to ask the four critical
  questions that, if answered honestly, can reduce
  underage drinking.
• Share some resources that you can share with
  parents to reduce underage drinking.

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• WHY DO TEENS DO WHAT THEY DO?
• (Make a fist and start at the bottom)

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So why DO they drink?

• They arent really too good with the whole
  risk/reward equation thing.

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Sledding
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Merry-go-round
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Critical Condition
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So why DO they drink?

• They arent really too good with the whole
  risk/reward equation thing.
• Even when they get it, they cant quite process
  it.

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Rope Stunt
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So why DO they drink?

• They arent really too good with the whole
  risk/reward equation thing.
• Even when they get it, they cant quite process
  it.
• The rewards are sometimes over exaggerated.

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So why DO they drink?

• They arent really too good with the whole
  risk/reward equation thing.
• Even when they get it, they cant quite process
  it.
• The rewards are sometimes over exaggerated.
• The consequences are sometimes under exaggerated.

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So why DO they drink?

• They arent really too good with the whole
  risk/reward equation thing.
• Even when they get it, they cant quite process
  it.
• The rewards are sometimes over exaggerated.
• The consequences are sometimes under exaggerated.
• We dont always have the best parenting skills.

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GOALS FOR TODAY

• Help you help parents understand why teens drink
  (as a hint, its the same reason they do almost
  anything)
• Help you help parents to ask the four critical
  questions that, if answered honestly, can reduce
  underage drinking.
• Share some resources that you can share with
  parents to reduce underage drinking.

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• 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?

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1. Where do youth get alcohol?
www.faceproject.org
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2. Where do youth use alcohol?
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2. Where do youth use alcohol?
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2. Where do youth use alcohol?
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3. Why do youth get away with using alcohol?
Elephant www.parentsempowered.org
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3. Why do youth get away with using alcohol?Kids
used to drink behind their parents backs.Now,
its their parents who are doing the pouring.
www.alcoholpolicymd.com
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4. What makes youth think they want to use
alcohol?
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Good friends
www.parentsempowered.org
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GOALS FOR TODAY

• Help you help parents understand why teens drink
  (as a hint, its the same reason they do almost
  anything)
• Help you help parents to ask the four critical
  questions that, if answered honestly, can reduce
  underage drinking.
• Share some resources that you can share with
  parents to reduce underage drinking.

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• For individual parents looking for resources

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Hang Glider www.parentsempowered.org
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• www.drugfree.org/teenbrain

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• MCRUD PAM Parent Teen Pledge card

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• www.theantidrug.com

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• www.stopalcoholabuse.gov

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• For parent groups already organized or trying to
  organize

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pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/AA78/AA78.pdf

• ALCOHOL ALERT 78, JULY, 2009
• A DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE ON UNDERAGE ALCOHOL
  USE

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• www.casacolumbia.org

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• www.drugfreeactionalliance.org

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• http//www.notnrhouse.org/

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• www.parentsempowered.org

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• www.thepowerofparents.org

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• www.mcrud.org/pages/program_ideas.htm

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• www.faceproject.org

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• And on and on and on and on
• You can follow MCRUD on Facebook.com and _at_mcrud
  on twitter.com
• You can follow Prevention Network Michigan
  _at_pnmichigan on twitter.com
• You can friend me on Facebook.com and follow me
  _at_kendail on twitter.com

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Ken Dail Executive Director, Prevention
Network Coordinator, Michigan Coalition to Reduce
Underage Drinking PO Box 4458 East Lansing, MI
48826 800-968-4968 Fax [phone]twitter.com/
pnmichigan kend_at_preventionnetwork.org