For Immediate Release Contact: Michelle Morse
April 16, 2010 Email:
MMorse@DrugFreeActionAlliance.org
Phone: 614-540-9985
April 16, 2010 Email:
MMorse@DrugFreeActionAlliance.org
Phone: 614-540-9985
Parents Who Host, Lose The Most: Don’t be a party to teenage drinking
A Successful Campaign Kickoff Featuring Campaign Spokesperson Clark Kellogg (Friday, April 16th at St. Francis DeSales High School)
A Successful Campaign Kickoff Featuring Campaign Spokesperson Clark Kellogg (Friday, April 16th at St. Francis DeSales High School)
(Columbus, Ohio) - With prom and graduation season right around the corner, Campaign Spokesperson Clark Kellogg (basketball star and national sports commentator) kicked off the Parents Who Host, Lose the Most: Don’t be a party to teenage drinking Campaign (a program of Drug-Free Action Alliance) by addressing a group of high school students and their parents on the subject of underage drinking.
Kellogg talked about the important and influential role parents play in their children’s decisions surrounding alcohol. He discussed both the health and safety issues that accompany underage drinking and encouraged parents to talk to their children so that they, in turn, may be empowered to make healthy and responsible choices for themselves.
Delaware County Sheriff Walter L. Davis III spoke about Ohio’s Social Host laws and the legal ramifications that underage drinking can bring to all parties involved. Sheriff Davis shared prom safety tips with the students and asked them to sign a pledge to help keep them safe and make their prom a positive evening to remember.
Ty Sells, a national Youth to Youth speaker, educated and entertained the group with his message on living drug-free lives and dealing with peer pressure by looking inward to personal strengths.
The aim of the kickoff was to bring attention to the subject of underage drinking and send a unified message to parents and students that it is not only illegal, but unsafe, unhealthy and unacceptable.
For more information on the Parents Who Host, Lose the Most: Don’t be a party to teenage drinking Campaign, visit www.DrugFreeActionAlliance.org.
Drug-Free Action Alliance is a private, non-profit organization that provides leadership to promote safe and drug free communities throughout Ohio. Programs and initiatives include Ohio Center for Coalition Excellence, Ohio College Initiative to Reduce High-Risk Drinking, Parent’s Who Host, Lose the Most: Don’t be a party to teenage drinking, Know! and Drug-Free 24/7.
Kellogg talked about the important and influential role parents play in their children’s decisions surrounding alcohol. He discussed both the health and safety issues that accompany underage drinking and encouraged parents to talk to their children so that they, in turn, may be empowered to make healthy and responsible choices for themselves.
Delaware County Sheriff Walter L. Davis III spoke about Ohio’s Social Host laws and the legal ramifications that underage drinking can bring to all parties involved. Sheriff Davis shared prom safety tips with the students and asked them to sign a pledge to help keep them safe and make their prom a positive evening to remember.
Ty Sells, a national Youth to Youth speaker, educated and entertained the group with his message on living drug-free lives and dealing with peer pressure by looking inward to personal strengths.
The aim of the kickoff was to bring attention to the subject of underage drinking and send a unified message to parents and students that it is not only illegal, but unsafe, unhealthy and unacceptable.
For more information on the Parents Who Host, Lose the Most: Don’t be a party to teenage drinking Campaign, visit www.DrugFreeActionAlliance.org.
Drug-Free Action Alliance is a private, non-profit organization that provides leadership to promote safe and drug free communities throughout Ohio. Programs and initiatives include Ohio Center for Coalition Excellence, Ohio College Initiative to Reduce High-Risk Drinking, Parent’s Who Host, Lose the Most: Don’t be a party to teenage drinking, Know! and Drug-Free 24/7.
