Local Business and Libraries Join Effort to Stop Underage Drinking

It can be hard to stay busy and motivated during the long winter months, especially after the holidays.  Parents and caregivers can make sure 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 local organizations to help us share this key message in our communities. We're thrilled to announce that Gold Star Cleaners, Northeast Harbor Library and Southwest Harbor Public Library have agreed to partner with Healthy Acadia to help prevent underage drinking. In early January, Gold Star Cleaners displayed a table tent at the front desk of their Bucksport and Ellsworth locations. The local libraries will distribute fact cards to book borrowers during the last week in January.  

For more information about Parents Who Host, or to get your organization or 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.