Tuesday, May 13, 2025
5/13/2025
Reducing Underage Drinking in Southern Kennebec County - The Coalition will prevent and reduce youth substance use by implementing the following strategies: Create a mechanism for the sectors of the community that are working largely independently on this issue to partner on the issue; Expand enforcement activities; Enhance public awareness of the problem of underage drinking, the laws, efforts to enforce the law, results of those efforts, and what everyone in the community can do to reduce underage drinking; Develop a focused multidisciplinary approach in order that schools as well as community partners, may increase capacity to address underage drinking that includes awareness and skills trainings for school and community resource officers; and Use the results of enforcement efforts to target and drive specific changes in rules, systems, policies and local laws that should be changed to reduce underage use.
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