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"Risk factors" are any circumstances that may increase youths' likelihood of engaging in risky behaviors. Conversely, "protective factors" are any circumstances that promote healthy youth behaviors and decrease the chance that youth will engage in risky behaviors.
Risk factors and protective factors are often organized into five categories: Individual, Family, School, Peer group, and Community
Individual
Family
School
Peer
Community
Protective factors that protect youth against delinquency and substance abuse are:
Individual
Family
School
Peer
Community
The Social Development Strategy organizes the research on protective factors-the factors that can buffer young people from the risks and promote positive youth development.
The Social Development Strategy guides communities toward their vision of positive futures for young people.
It begins with the goal of healthy, positive behaviors for young people and provides a research-based framework for developing the processes necessary for positive youth development, even in the presence of risk.
The 40 Developmental Assets are concrete, common sense, positive experiences and qualities essential to raising successful young people. These assets have the power during critical adolescent years to influence choices young people make and help them become caring, responsible adults.
Find out how you can build protective factors and help create healthy beliefs and clear standards for youth in your community. Anyone can build Assets in local youth, even you!
Link to 40 Developmental Assets info.
What Is Environmental Prevention? Environmental prevention strategies help alter policies, procedures, systems, and attitudes.
In the prevention field, there are varying ways to accomplish the goals of enabling and promoting good health and safe behaviors. When a measure seeks to change a person's individual behavior, we call it an individual intervention. If a measure seeks to change the environment of individuals, we call this an environmental intervention or strategy. So, what are these environmental strategies?
Environmental strategies are prevention efforts that aim to change or influence community standards, institutions, structures, and attitudes that shape individuals' behaviors. Communities have used environmental approaches and strategies to:
Social Host Laws-Holding Adults Responsible for Underage Drinking (FAQ)
Why is this law needed?
Under existing law, minors (persons under the age of 21) are prohibited from possessing alcohol. The adult who serves them alcohol is liable; however, if the minors will not give the name of the adult who has supplied them with alcohol the police can do nothing. By making "allowing alcohol to be consumed on the premises" this law will close this loophole.
If my child is arrested and found guilty, will this go on his/her permanent record?
The offense is an infraction - a citation similar to a parking ticket. This is not a misdemeanor or a felony that would stay with them throughout their lives.
Its purpose is to hold the person in control of the premises responsible for allowing alcohol to be consumed on the property.
Why does this bill target house parties or parties that occur on premises?
These parties on private property have repeatedly been identified as the primary source by which youth obtain alcohol. Kids obtain alcohol at parties through friends, older siblings or adults. Because alcohol is often freely available and drinking games are common, binge drinking - consuming five our more drinks on one occasion within a short period of time - frequently occurs. Binge drinking and other heavy drinking is strongly associated with injury, motor vehicle crashes, violence, fetal alcohol syndrome, chronic liver disease, unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.
Why has premises been re-defined?
Premises has been re-defined to include homes, apartments, back yards, outbuildings, fields, wooded areas, fields, etc. This closes the loophole to allow police anywhere on private property when a complaint if filed by a neighbor or concerned community member.
Don't most of the large underage drinking parties happen when parents are out of town?
House parties are happening across our state both when parents are present, and when only teens are home. Under the proposed law, minors can also be cited for hosting underage drinking parties.
If I go away on vacation and my child hosts an underage drinking party, am I responsible?
Under the proposed law, adults are not responsible for hosting the party if they are away from home and youth hold a drinking party without their knowledge. A teen or other person in control of the house could be cited for hosting the party in addition to possessing alcohol. Under other state statutes and case law, the owner of a home may be held liable for injuries or other consequences that occur regardless of whether or not the homeowner is present. This new law doesn't change existing civil liability. However, with this new bill, law enforcement officials may be able to intervene to address the issue of underage drinking before tragedy strikes and minimize damage to a homeowner's property.
Why does this bill target "social hosts"?
Some parents and other adults concerned about drinking and driving mistakenly believe if youth are going to drink, its better they drink in a home than somewhere else. The truth is that teen drinking parties are the source of many problems- driving drunk is just one. Young adults, often college students over 21 years, also frequently host parties and allow minors to drink alcohol. Drinking parties almost always involve binge drinking (consuming five or more drinks in one occasion), and lead to violence, sexual assault, rape, and even alcohol poisoning. These parties can easily spiral out of control. This proposed law encourages parents and adults to do the right thing - avoid providing unsafe environments that foster high risk destructive behavior. The bill provides parents with peace of mind by knowing that their children should not be encouraged by other adults to drink alcohol when their child goes to someone else's home.
Why is this bill good legislation?
It addresses the problem of underage drinking where it most frequently occurs by closing the loophole that allows it to take place at house parties. It would further reduce easy access to alcohol by youth, would reduce binge drinking, and hold both teens and adults accountable for their behavior. Equally important, it provides law enforcement officials an important tool in their communities to prevent tragedy rather than react to it. It assists both the adult and the child to make wise decisions. And finally, the bill reinforces a consistent message that underage drinking is unhealthy, unsafe and unacceptable.
Would this proposed law prevent parents from providing alcohol to their own children?
The decision to provide alcohol to one's own child is a personal choice. Under current law, illegal possession of alcohol by minors does not apply to a minor who possesses alcohol while accompanied by their parent, guardian or spouse over the age of 21. This same exception applies in the proposed law. This bill prevents the adults from knowingly allowing children other than their own to possess alcohol on private property without that child's parent being present. The right to allow a child to drink is reserved for only a child's parent or guardian - not someone else.
Report Underage Drinking Hotline
To Report Underage Drinking Problems Anonymously:
Underage Drinking Hotline
1- 877- 662- 4643
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