Many thanks to members of the Safe Community Coalition for their participation in a Thursday November 19 focus group that helped help frame a new discussion guide for nationwide discussions on how to prevent underage drinking. SCC members can offer additional comments on the draft guide, which is here (PDF), by emailing Bill Corbett.
Safe Community Coalition is a Northern Virginia community organization that works to help youth make responsible decisions that keep them safe, healthy and free from alcohol and drug use.
The discussion guide on underage drinking will be published and used in 2010 by the National Issues Forums Institute. National Issues Forums (NIF) is a nonpartisan, nationwide network of locally sponsored public forums for the consideration of public policy issues. NIF affiliates, like the Center for Voter Deliberation of Northern Virginia, bring people together to reason, talk and take action on locally chosen topics of vital interest.
If you or your organization are interested in organizing or taking part in a forum in 2010 on prevention of underage drinking, please contact CVDNVA. We would be happy to work with you to organize a local forum - whether for fifteen people, a hundred fifty, or some number in between - on this vital community issue. CVDNVA is a volunteer-run, nonprofit and nonpartisan organization.
