Arizona’s Underage Drinking Prevention Committee was established in 2005 and in 2007 became a sub-committee under the Arizona Substance Abuse Partnership. The Governor’s Office for Children Youth and Families-Division for Substance Abuse Policy leads this interagency committee that is coordinating underage drinking prevention efforts across relevant state systems. The committee has worked tirelessly to address the problem of underage drinking in Arizona by assessing statewide epidemiological data, resources, strategies and policies, and building relationships with tribes, youth, law enforcement, government agencies, and community coalitions. Through combining resources, practice, and research, the committee is collaborating across state systems to reduce underage drinking. Partners on the committee include deputy directors, decision makers and representatives from government and advocacy agencies that directly influence underage drinking.

To implement a statewide underage drinking initiative and to foster a collaboration of agencies that work together to prevent and reduce underage drinking and improve the health and safety of Arizona youth and by:

• Influencing state-level infrastructure change to improve cross coordination and collaboration between state agencies working to prevent and reduce underage drinking.
• Modifying social and economic norms, conditions, and adverse consequences that result from alcohol availability, manufacturing, distribution, promotion, sales, and use by persons under the legal drinking age of 21, and
• Effectively addressing at-risk youth populations and their environments.

In October 2007 the Arizona Underage Drinking Prevention Committee officially launched Draw the Line, a statewide social norms marketing campaign to address underage drinking across the state. The Governor’s campaign seeks to give parents and adults the knowledge and tools they need in order to better influence their children’s decisions about underage drinking.

Click here or on the icon to the right to learn more about the campaign.

• October 2009
• July 2009
• March 2009

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