Fogtown Brewing Company Renews Support of Campaign to Prevent Underage Drinking
Post contributed by Mia Petrini, Community Health Coordinator
Fogtown Brewing Company Renews Support of Campaign to Prevent Underage Drinking
September means a return to school for many youths in our community. For parents and caregivers, it’s also a time to ensure that our teens spend time together in ways that are safe and substance-free.
We're thrilled to announce that Fogtown Brewing Company in Ellsworth has agreed to partner with Healthy Acadia to help prevent underage drinking for a third consecutive year. The popular downtown restaurant will again display “Parents Who Host, Lose the Most,” campaign stickers and fact cards for patrons to take at the end of September.
Parents Who Host, Lose the Most, a public health media campaign designed by Prevention Action Alliance, provides information for parents and communities about the health and safety risks of providing alcohol to individuals under age 21 and can help increase awareness of and compliance with underage drinking laws. The Parents Who Host campaign includes materials to help participating partners educate their patrons and community about the health and safety effects of underage drinking.
Parents Who Host Lose The Most empowers parents, businesses, and communities to take action to prevent underage drinking. It reinforces everyone’s responsibility to promote healthy choices in your community. Its key message reminds parents that it is unsafe, unhealthy, and unacceptable—and, in many communities, illegal—to provide alcohol to underage youth. It decreases young people’s access to alcohol by reducing the number of parents willing to provide alcohol for young people. Over time, it reduces the likelihood that teens will drink alcohol and suffer the health effects that come from underage drinking.
Healthy Acadia invites and encourages area businesses and organizations to help us share this key message in our communities.
For more information about Parents Who Host, or to get your business involved in the effort to prevent underage drinking, contact Mia Petrini at (207) 667-7171 or mia@healthyacadia.org or Katie Sell at (207) 255-3741 or katie.sell@healthyacadia.org.