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Partnering organizations include:

Law Enforcement Agencies- Park Ridge and Des Plaines Police

Youth

Parents (and other community adults)

City Governments

Health Care Facilities

Social Service Agencies

Youth Serving Agencies

Civic Clubs

Schools

BusinessFaith Communities


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Strategies to reduce teen substance use include:

Social Norms Marketing at the High Schools

Prevention Education at the elementary and middle schools

Social Marketing Talk Early, Talk Often Campaign, Parents Who Host Lose the Most

Policies Social Host ordinances, Minimum drinking age limits, pricing (the higher thecost, the greater the difficulty to purchase, the less teens use).

TXTaTIP report crimes anonymously using text technology

Retail Compliance Checks/Recognition Program

Sticker Shock

Parent Patrol

Impact to date Regular alcohol use by teens is down 7%. Teenage binge drinking isdown 21%.


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One way we monitor the impact of our community wide efforts is to monitor attitudesand behaviors of all teens through use of the Illinois Youth Survey.

All community 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12th grade students complete the survey every otheryear some school districts administer the survey every year. It is anonymous anddata is cleaned by a 3 rd party. Some surveys are eliminated due to inconsistent oruntruthful responses. The survey contains control questions that weed out untruthfulresponders. A small percentage of students are deemed untruthful and eliminatedfrom the data pool.


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Among those who obtained alcohol, youth reported that parties and friends (3722)are most often the source for alcohol, followed by parents without their permission(1022). Interestingly, the next 3 most noted sources of alcohol (not counting theother category) for youth to obtain alcohol are what we call social sources orpeople who actually give alcohol to the minor. Those responses include an adult, oldersibling or parent.

Most infrequent ways youth got alcohol were through the internet, stealing from astore, and from establishments such as gas stations and bars. Great job PoliceDepartments for the compliance checks!

Since youth cannot get alcohol by themselves and because they cannot legally

purchase it, Underage drinking is an ADULT PROBLEM: anywhere there is a childdrinking there MUST be an adult involved... either selling, providing, allowing orsimply looking away! Many of the categories above demonstrate there was indeed anadult involved.


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For teens and parents alike adolescence can be difficult to navigate.

Teens are barraged with conflicting messages and priorities-from school, parents, media, friends, peers,health, sports, etc.

Our role as adults is to act in the best interest of youth by setting a good example, being aware, andsending clear messages.

My suggestion to all volunteers is NOT to make assumptions about a parent, child, or family. I stronglysuggest that you avoid placing individual blame on youth or their parents. It is not in anyones bestinterest to assume that you understand the dynamics of a family that you don't personally know.

Not every youth that ends up at a teen party is a "troubled, disrespectful wanton child" that has no ideaof the consequences of their actions. Not every parent that shows up at a house to collect their youthhas been neglectful or a poor parent. If people feel judged, they can become defensive which will turn

the attention away from the problem at hand.

I'm thinking of a recent conversation I had with someone about a teen drinking party. There was alarge teen drinking party and the kids who were there included:

A boy who had never been at a teen drinking party, didn't know they were going to end up at the party,was not drinking and his parents had clear rules. There was a lapse of judgment as he followed hisfriends. He is a good student, a good kid.

A similar situation as above with a girl, who did drink (her first time) and got alcohol poisoning.

Another girl who had a history of going to parties with alcohol. Her parents did the right thing andcalled the host parents to confirm there was going to be adult supervision and no alcohol. The hostparents assured her that they would be home and "of course" there would be no alcohol.


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There is no silver bullet when working to address complex safety issues such asunderage drinking. In addition to the many other strategies Margaret Polovchakhighlighted, Parent Patrol is another viable strategy.

The idea of Parent Patrol gets its roots in community policing and the value of community and enforcement coming together to deal with community issues.

We also base the concept of Parent Patrol on data and information we get from ourkids. Remember the statistic, if teens perceive that the community is not okay withunderage drinking they are 70% less likely to engage in drinking.

Parent Patrol is a visible way we send a message to young people, we want you tohave fun in healthy, safe ways. Underage Drinking is both unhealthy, dangerous andillegal.


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MCYAF earned a one time only underage drinking enforcement grant in 2010.

The grant supplied law enforcement with monies to cover additional police coverage

twelve weekends during prom, graduation and homecoming seasons. Further, thegrant covered the purchase of Parent Patrol volunteer jackets and alcohol detectiondevices.

The jackets serve to both protect the volunteer, making them stand out on the sceneof an incident, and as a visible indicator of the programs existence.

The patrol officer and volunteers were available to respond to underage drinking

parties and surveillance of traditional youth hang-outs.


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Minimum of 52 Volunteers desired

One weekend per year commitment desired

One night per year commitment accepted

Option to serve more available

You can serve

On call basis- give us your phone number we will call you if an incidentarises.

You can sit in the station with night officer patrol will pick you up if anincident arises.

Or most recommended ride along with a patrol officer, learn whatgoes on in the world of Park Ridge Law Enforcement. Meet the great officers thatserve and protect our community.

Be available to serve 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. the day of your shift


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Choose a weekend that you can serve starting in May 2011 email the chief.


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We will evaluate the program several ways

January 2012:

Participant feedback

Policy Advisory Task Force

February 2012:

Illinois Youth Survey will be administered to all district 64 & 207,

6 th , 8 th , 9 th , 10 th , 11 th , 12 th Grade students

June 2012: Student survey results will be reviewed for several indicators1. Teen perception of neighborhood adults approval/disapproval of

underage drinking

2. Teen perceived reported ease of access to alcohol

3. Teens report getting alcohol from a party or an adult provider


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