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Underage Drinking Summit
Thursday October 23, 2008
8:30am to 3:00pm
Drivers Village Conference Center
The third annual Underage Drinking Summit, What’s it going to take? Preventing underage drinking—a pro-active approach, is designed as an educational opportunity for parents and professionals. Advanced registration is required. Complimentary lunch and free parking are included.
Two national speakers—Toren and Chris Volkman, best-selling authors of Binge toBlackout—will lead off the agenda. The authors will also be presenting throughoutCentral New York at local schools during the week of the Summit. Conference attendeeswill be offered a series of 12 workshops for professionals and community leaders fromwhich to choose. In addition, for the first time, a youth leadership session will be offeredin preparation for a larger youth summit planned for November. Prevention Network iscollaborating with New York State OASAS (Office of Alcoholism and Substance AbuseServices) and the Syracuse/Onondaga Drug and Alcohol Abuse Commission to make thishappen.
Directions to Drivers Village Conference Center
For more information about the summit, contact Phil Rose, Program Coordinator of Underage Drinking Initiative, at 471-1359.
SQUAD PSAs
One of the SQUAD’s (Students Questioning Under Age Drinking) more interesting projects is working with the media. They call themselves “Media Mentors.” Over the past several years we have produced a number of 30 sec. PSAs (Public Service Announcements) for radio. These PSAs have been aired over a number of stations with youth audiences like K-Rock, Hot 107.9 & Power 106.9. We submitted our most recent PSA to the Christian radio stations at MARS HILL.
These PSAs have received awards and recognition from the New York State Board of Traffic Safety for the past two years. Each PSA is written and acted by the teens. We have had the generous support of Galaxy Communications and their producer Ted Billado to bring our ideas to reality. Have your teens keep an ear open for our PSAs. They all have a tag line – “Brought to you by Prevention Network’s SQUAD Students Questioning Underage Drinking.” The theme of the most recent PSA is “Have a good time that you will remember – DON’T Drink!”
SQUAD at Galaxy Communications - from left to right: Janina Swierk, Dan Karper, Melondra Jefferson, J’ohanna Agen, Kristina Miranovic.
