MBC MBPD PAL YDC MBTC Project Sticker Shock

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The Miami Beach Coalition for a Safe, Healthy & Drug-Free Community

Marina B. Aviles, Project Coordinator

3050 Biscayne Blvd. # 900

Miami, FL 33137

MBC, PAL, YDC, MBTC & MBPD September 15, 2012 Project Sticker Shock

·         Results from our recent youth survey indicate that underage drinking in Miami Beach is all too common. 

·         On September  15, 2012, the Miami Beach Coalition for a Safe, Healthy & Drug-Free Community, the Miami Beach Police Dept., Miami Beach P.A.L., Miami Beach Teen Club as a collaborative effort of concerned citizens, youth, parents, schools, and businesses will be working together to address issues related to underage drinking, and smoking, by launching Project Sticker Shock throughout the community. 

·         This campaign aims to reach those individuals over age 21 that legally purchase alcohol and provide it to a minor.

·         The campaign consists of stickers being adhered to multi-packs of alcoholic beverages (beer, wine coolers, etc.) and cigarettes in participating retail stores.

·         The impact of the stickers is increased by media coverage of the event and by longer-lasting signs to be displayed by participating retailers. 

·         A youth team consisting of students from the Miami Beach Police Explorers and Youth Directors Club, as well as Miami Beach Senior High School, DFYIT club, Boy Scouts and SADD clubs, accompanied by police escorts and adult chaperones, will visit retail stores throughout the north end of Miami Beach on September 15th to place stickers and window cling ons.

Things to think about:

1.        Alcohol id extremely easy for youth to get.

2.        Adults are supposed to be the responsible ones, but one of the most common ways youth get alcohol is to get someone over 21 to buy it for them.

3.        Adults send mixed messages about the acceptability of alcohol use and underage drinking.

4.        The drinking age is 21 for a reason ---alcohol is factor in many preventable teen deaths and injuries,  in the  majority of sexual assaults, unplanned sexual activity, and sexually transmitted infections among  youth.

For questions, or to confirm your participation in this event, please contact: MBPD Officer Julio Blanco and/or MBC Project Coordinator, Marina B. Aviles at 786-368-5810 or 305-443-DRUG (3784).  Thank you for your kind attention.  We look forward to working with you in this public information campaign to help keep youth in our community safe, healthy, and drug-free.