Parents Matter when it comes to underage drinking
“It was 22 (alcohol vehicle) in the event of death in the past two years,” said Linda Colhoff of Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention Inc. Monday during a press conference. “It’s too much.”
“Parents Matter” is a multi-facet of the campaign against drunk driving minors in South Dakota. It has been prepared by the South Dakota Department of Public Safety, South Dakota Department of Human Services and the South Dakota Attorney General’s Office, in the spring of 2006, after a rash of alcohol consumption by young people and driving a vehicle deaths.
One of the main pillars of this year’s campaign is a plea to the public, parents, in order to make them conform to the children in the decisions and talk about their children drinking and driving.
Packets of information and a DVD of testimonies of four families of South Dakota, lost children in drunken road accidents in the coming weeks to high schoolers in the state, said Pam Teany Thomas, Head Project Manager for Drug Free Communities Grant For ASAP The film’s message is not to teach children to drink responsibly, but also about educating them, not to drink.
The DVD said adolescents were 42% less likely to drink alcohol, if it belongs on several occasions, “not permit use.” He also reported that in the last year, nine teenagers South Dakota miners died Drunk Driving fails.
“They always think it can not happen to you, but none of us, bullet-proof,” said Pennington County Sheriff Don Holloway.
As part of the campaign, state, a new commitment to human aggressive, alcohol to minors, said the mayor of Rapid City Alan Hanks at the press conference.
The results of the checks on compliance of alcohol to local companies in the media and on the Internet, he said.
He said it is important that the public can know that the sale of alcohol to minors and who is not, he said.
“This is really an issue,” he added.
Rapid City Police Department Captain Doug Thrash said parents are ruthless, if they think that’s OK for their teens to drink, because it was something that they have at this age.
“Given that this was the way that 20, 30, 40 years, as an excuse is irresponsible,” he said.
Parents and city leaders came together to change what happened in the past.
“We must get the numbers, it is simply not acceptable,” he said.
Jim Ghent, director of the Rapid City Area Schools Curriculum, Assessment, Instruction and Gifted Education Services, and had voted for parents to give their children “a wink and a head” when it comes to drinking ‘ is not OK.
“Now it is time for us to change,” he said.
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