Social Hosting Workshop

Remember when they needed you

What is in the best interest of children?

General Lack of Concern

Where do they get it?

Things you cannot undo…

RUINED LIVES

Do you think underage drinking doesn’t effect the developing brain?

ALLOW DETERMINATION OF STRUCTURAL AND CHEMICAL DAMAGE

Amen Clinics

Alcohol no alcohol one year later

using normal >1 year

Amen Clinics

What kind of performance will you have?

Your brain runs your body

Scans by Amen Clinics

HEALTHY NORMAL BRAIN

HEAVY TEEN ALCOHOL USER

Brain Development during youth through adolescence, has been chronicled by the UCLA Brain Development Study. Orange and yellow color indicates the developing areas of the young brain and illustrates the timeframe at which these events occur. Previous studies for decades believed most brain development took place during the first three years of life, however this landmark study showed an incredible era of brain development from hormonal onset (adolescence) into the early twenties. The brain areas associated with these final regions are associated with reasoning, moral reasoning and decision making. Likewise athletic abilities are being perfected during the same time with skill perfection, skill innovation and maximal performance capacities reaching optimal levels. Surely drug use during this pivotal timeframe takes a heavy toll on these and many other capacities reaching their full potential. The unfortunate outcome to youth drug use is that if these critical events are affected during this chronological developmental phase damage , deficits, or reduced capacities may be lifelong. Train hard …Play hard… Party hard…waste your talents.

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ACADEMICS

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The images above show the brain activity of a 15-year-old nondrinker, top, and a drinker, bottom.

BRAIN ACTIVITY DURING THROWING

FRONTAL

CEREBELLUM

RISK PEAKS EARLY

ACCIDENTS

In 2005, 4,544 teens ages 16 to 19 -- an average of twelve a day--died in motor vehicle crashes.Overall, younger drivers lack experience on the roads and are less likely than older drivers to recognize risky situations. While lack ofexperience increases teens' crash risk, so does driving with teen passengers while unsupervised. As the number of teen passengers goes up, so does the risk of a crash.

In 2005, more than one in four young drivers killed in motor vehicle crashes had been drinking. The severity of crashes increases when alcohol is involved. Drinking drivers are also less likely to wear seat belts.

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Age of Offender

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ALCOHOL USE INCREASES DRAMATICALLY DURING ADOLESCENCE

AGEPercent of Americans Who Have Ever Drunk Alcohol (A Whole Drink)

MALEFEMALE

SAMHSA

•40% of children who start drinking before the age of 15 will become alcoholics at some point in their lives. If the onset of drinking is delayed by 5 years, a child's risk of serious alcohol problems is decreased by 50%.

The average age when youth first try alcohol is 11.9 years for

boys and 13.1 years for girls. The average age at which Americans begin drinking regularly is 15.9 years old.

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# OF DRINKING EPISODES/MO.

The average high school drinker has 4-5 drinking episodes in 30 days

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SPECIAL OCCASIONS

The average college drinker has 10-14 drinking episodes in 30 days

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Usual Number of Drinks per Occasion

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Number of drinking occasions in 30 days

SAMHSA

Under 21

20% of Alcohol Industry profit comes from the underage drinking illegal sales

$22,500,000,000

H20 9.9%

FRUIT JUICE 6.8%

MILK 6.4%

COFFEE 15.3%

SOFT DRINKS 43.4%

Track the numbers Track the behaviors

You cannot reduce risk by increasing protective factors

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Life Skills

Assistance Skills

Stress Skills

Self-Esteem

Decisionmaking Skills

Goal-Setting Skills

Alternatives

Resistance Skills

Consequence Beliefs

Values

Personal Commitment

Normative Beliefs

Hansen All Stars

There are four areas that can impact youth in areas of RISK…

Correlation Between Risk Factors & Alcohol Use

There is more of a chance you will drink because you

are hanging out with people who are drinking than if you are physically

offered a beer.

The strongest predictors of alcohol and drug abuse among high school or college youth are social. Among high school and college youth, for example, the social group dominates as the

best predictor of substance use…

Young people use drugs primarily as a function of the social group with whom they interact.

WHO YOU ARE WITH

WHAT THEY DO…

STANDARDS FOR YOUTH BEHAVIOR

• CLEAR CONSISTENT BOUNDARIES• HIGH LEVEL OF CONSEQUENCE BELEIFS • HOME SCHOOL COMMUNITY ATHLETICS

• LAW ENFORCEMENT

Standards for Youth BehaviorSet by ADULTS

Enforced UniversallyProcess to identify

Process to help

“A child who reaches age 21 without

smoking, abusing alcohol or using drugs

is virtually certain never to do so”

“A society whose adults do not abuse tobacco,

alcohol or drugs, is virtually certain not to raise children who do

so.”

" Set the example for your children”The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,

I WILL CARE FOR THESE CHILDREN AT ALL TIMES ESPECIALLY WHEN I AM WITH THEM I WILL AS AN ADULT SET A POSITIVE EXAMPLE FOR OUR YOUTH BY THE WAY I LIVE MY LIFE

I WILL, AS AN ADULT, ACCEPT RESPONSIBILTIY FOR OUR YOUTHI WILL FULFILL MY RESPONSIBILITY TO OUR YOUTH EVEN WHEN OTHERS FAIL

I WILL HELP IDENTIFY OUR YOUTH WITH PERSONAL AND SOCIAL ISSUESI WILL GET THEM PROFESIONAL HELP

I WILL DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO PROTECT OUR YOUTH FROM RISK AND HARMI WILL NOT LET ONE CRAIG YOUTH FALL TO THE PERILS OF NEGLECT

I WILL ALWAYS ACT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF OUR CHILDRENI WILL SUPPORT THE LAWS THAT SEEK TO KEEP OUR YOUTH FROM HARM AND RISK

I will support a community consensus that clearly states that drug and underage DRUG/alcohol use is illegal, unhealthy and unacceptable and the zero -tolerance measures

that must be employed to deter such youth behaviors of concern.

Parents of CRAIG