Fogtown Brewing Company Joins Effort to Stop Underage Drinking

September means a return to school for many young people 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. 

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. 

Healthy Acadia encourages area businesses to help us share this key message in our communities. We're thrilled to announce that Fogtown Brewing Company in Ellsworth has agreed to partner with Healthy Acadia to help prevent underage drinking. The popular restaurant will display campaign stickers and fact cards on its bar for patrons to take during the last week in September. 

Retail and Packaging Manager Joey Dupuis supports the project: “We have a conscious obligation to encourage healthy habits and be consistent with the laws for drinking alcohol.”  The Parents Who Host campaign includes materials to help you educate your patrons and your community about the health and safety effects of underage drinking.

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.