The Pinckney Coalition

Parents Who Host, Lose the Most: Don’t Be a Party to Teenage Drinking

Many well-meaning parents think that it is enough to take away car keys at their teen’s parties so the teens can’t drink and drive. Parents provide the alcohol or allow alcohol to be consumed based on the false belief that it’s a rite of passage, especially at prom and graduation parties.

The “Parents Who Host, Lose the Most: Don’t be a Party to Teenage Drinking” public awareness campaign was developed by Drug-Free Action Alliance in 2000 to educate parents about the health and safety risks of serving alcohol at teen parties and to increase awareness of and compliance with the Underage Drinking Laws.

The Pinckney Coalition implements this campaign during the spring to raise awareness around prom and graduation. We need your help to make this campaign a success in our community. Yard signs, posters, and table tents are used to promote this campaign.

Project Sticker Shock

Project Sticker Shock is a program intended to give information to adults, 21 and older, who potentially could purchase alcohol for minors.  The goal of the program is to build community awareness and educate adults.  With the cooperation of local alcohol retail outlets, youth and coalition members place stickers on multi-packs of alcohol.

The stickers typcially reminds clerks and those purchasing the alcohol of the laws surrounding providing alcohol to minors; health information about minors using alcohol; and a plea from local teens and the coalition to the adult purchaser asking them not to allow minors to use the alcohol being purchased.

For more information please contact Karen Bergbower or Erin Murphy: 810-225-9550.