Keeping Our Communities Safe: Woodland Junior-Senior High School

Making healthy choices

Students from Woodland JR/SR High School Left to right: Freshman, Wyatt Cropley, 8th grade and Student Council Representative Lydia Cropley, and Freshman Ethann Coleman. 

On April 26, students at Baileyville’s Woodland JR/SR High School helped coordinate the display of a Parents who Host Banner on their athletic field. 

Parents who Host is a national public awareness campaign designed to help prevent underage drinking in our communities. It reinforces that it's everyone’s responsibility to promote healthy choices in our communities. The campaign’s key message is to remind parents and other adults that it is unsafe, unhealthy and illegal to provide alcohol to underage youth. 

According to the Maine Integrated Youth Health Survey in 2019, nearly 1 in 3 high school students in Washington County reported consuming alcohol within the preceding 30 days. By reducing the number of adults willing to provide alcohol to young people and over time we can reduce underage access and the likelihood that teens will drink alcohol and suffer the health effects that come from underage drinking. 

For more information about this Parents Who Host and other substance use prevention strategies in Washington County contact Katie Sell, Community Health Coordinator at Healthy Acadia at 207-255-3741 or katie.sell@healthyacadia.org. In Hancock County contact Mia Petrini, Community Health Coordinator at Healthy Acadia at mia@healthyacadia.org.