Together We Can Keep Teens Safe This Summer

 The summer is a time of celebrations - family gatherings, barbecues, outdoor recreation activities, and more. For parents and caregivers, it’s also a time to ensure that our teens celebrate safely and substance-free.

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 teens and can help increase awareness of and compliance with underage drinking laws.

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 for 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 teens will drink alcohol and suffer the health effects that come from underage drinking.

Local businesses and organizations can help spread the word. The Parents Who Host campaign includes fact cards, stickers, posters to help you educate your patrons and your community about the health and safety effects of underage drinking.

Being a parent of a teenager isn’t always easy. Parents can positively influence their teenager's substance use choices. 

Set rules and boundaries around substance use.  Make sure they know you do not approve of underage drinking. 

Protect your children’s health and safety and remember it’s illegal to provide a place for youth to drink alcohol. 

Let's celebrate safely, and make happy memories.

For more information, contact Katie Sell at (207) 255-3741 or katie.sell@healthyacadia.org or Mia Petrini at (207) 667-7171 or mia@healthyacadia.org.