Massapequa Takes Action Coalition (MTAC) joins with YES Community Counseling Center’s Partnering in Action Change for Tomorrow (PACT) Initiative to support its underage drinking prevention campaign: Alcohol and Teens Don’t Mix! Be Their Guide. Don’t Provide. The campaign is aimed to help parents to talk with their youth and young adults about the dangers of alcohol and increase youth/young adults’ refusal skills when it comes to underage and binge drinking.
The campaign provides parents access to PACT's website which provides information regarding the dangers of underage drinking; strategies to talk with your kids; and how to help your kids practice refusal skills and exit plans. Research shows that parents are the #1 reason young people decide not to drink. Unfortunately, in our communities, only about 50% of our teens report their parents talked with them in the past year about the dangers of alcohol. Talking with teens is crucial to help them make healthy decisions when it comes to alcohol.
MTAC is a member of the PACT Initiative along with five school districts and communities in Farmingdale, Island Trees, Levittown, Massapequa, and Plainedge along with the two community coalitions: Farmingdale Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Team and Levittown Community Action Coalition. Additional PACT partners include each community’s Chambers of Commerce in Farmingdale, Levittown, and Massapequa; Long Island Prevention Resource Center, Nassau County Police Department, and the New York Counterdrug Task Force.
For more information about how communities are working together to promote healthy youth, contact PACT at (516) 799-3203 x131 or email at pact@yesccc.org
For more information about MTAC’s strategies to reduce underage drinking and youth substance misuse and how to be a part of the solution, contact Brooke Langella, MTAC Project Coordinator at (516) 799-3000 x 131 or email at mtacoalition@yesccc.org.
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