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Responding to Calls for Help! Clean Teens is a nonprofit substance abuse prevention organization, providing youth, parents, schools and neighborhoods with comprehensive substance abuse prevention/intervention programs. Since 2001, we have helped strengthen hundreds of families while collaborating efforts to promote safe and healthy neighborhoods. The organizations mission is to delay, deter, and/or eliminate adolescent alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use/abuse and problematic behavior in the context of educational and intervention programming.
You can teach an adolescent a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
We hope that our web site can serve as a resource to support your prevention and intervention needs at home, your child's school and in your community. We furthermore hope that our web site can increase attention to the great need for substance abuse prevention programs and activities in our community. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of treatment.
Each page contains links to helpful information resources and details on the substance abuse prevention and intervention services we provide for youth, parents, and high schools. If you should not find the information you seek, please email your questions/comments to cleanteens@aol.com
My Strong Willed & Out of Control Teen
How much longer will you toleratethe dishonesty & disrespect?
A Focus on Underage Drinking "Family Town Hall Meetings" In March of 2006, the founder and executive director of Clean Teens, Justin Bishop, partnered with over twenty nonprofit organizations in Washtenaw county to increase community awareness on underage drinking. Over 180 parents and youth (from Ypsilanti, Whitmore Lake, Northfield Township, Milan, and Ann Arbor Saline and Pittsfield Township) attended to learn more about and support efforts that reduce underage drinking. Below are a few pictures of those that participated in the county-wide initiative. "Start Talking Before They Start Drinking." Thank You! Planning Commitee & Pannel Members
Thank You! Clean Teens, Theater Troup Members
Thank You! To All of our Wonderful Partners
Thank You for Your Support & Participation
"Each community is being encouraged to think about how to plan and implement strategies that help address the problem of underage drinking."
COMING SOON 2008 Underage Drinking Town Hall Meeting STAY TUNED FOR MORE DETAILS, DATE, TIME & LOCATION
The Town Hall Meeting is a national effort by the Federal Substance Abuse & Mental Health Service Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Service, to educate youth, parents, and caregivers, and other adults about the harmful effects of underage drinking. The Town Hall Meeting will tie in closely with the Reach Out Now Teach-In, which will follow this community gathering to teach the fifth and sixth grades about the risk of underage drinking.
The Cost of Alcopops to Youth and California
In California, they were able to estimate the enormous costs of underage alcopop consumption. They used data to educate policymakers, the media, and others. Now they have made similar estimates for the other 27 states where current law indicates that alcopops should be classified as distilled spirits. Doing so would make these products less available to youth (depending on the state law), either by removing them from grocery and convenience stores, raising the taxes (and hence prices), or both. The Cost of Underage Alcopop Consumption in Michigan
State Money Deaths Incident of Harm
Michigan $342,600,000 16 12,960
Harms include traffic accidents, suicides, violence, poisonings and fetal alcohol syndrome, among others. Calculations are based on: Miller, T.R, Levy, D.T., Spicer, R.S., Taylor, D.M., Societal Costs of Underage Drinking. Journal of Studies on Alcohol 67: 519-528, 2006.
What more can we be doing here in Michigan? Download a summary of the report.
For more news and resources on underage drinking, visit the Marin Institute, Alcohol Industry Watchdog @ www.marininstitute.org.
Ann Arbor Campus & Community Coalition
Click above to learn more about Ann Arbor's Coalition & Efforts to Curb Underage Drinking
The Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act
The Sober Truth on Preventing (STOP) Underage Drinking Act was introduced in the House and Senate on July 21 and 22, 2006. The principal sponsors of the House bill are Congresswomen Lucille Roybal Allard and Rosa DeLauro and Congressmen Tom Osborne, Zach Wamp and Frank Wolf. The principal sponsors of the Senate bill are Senators Mike DeWine and Christopher Dodd. These bills are a bi-cameral, bi-partisan effort that represents an important step in our nations efforts to combat underage alcohol use and abuse. For more information click here.
Parents Together Parents Together is a state licensed substance abuse education/prevention agency, working on the Southside of Ypsilanti since 1987, committed to addressing the social, economic, and health concerns of the residents of this community. This agencies goal is to educate residents of the dangers of using alcohol, tobacco or other drugs (ATOD) and how it affects their health and well-being. Social and economic consequences are also a major concern linked to these high-risk behaviors. For more information, click here.
ALERT
Each year, 1,700 college students are killed, 500,000 are injured, and 70,000 are sexually assaulted in alcohol-fueled events. Almost half of all alcohol use reported by college students is by underage drinkers. At the same time, colleges make money from the alcohol industry buying advertising time during televised college sporting events. For more information click here.
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