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Bay Area Community participates in national town hall meetings on underage drinking at the Gilruth Center

From Clear Creek Independent School District

March 24, 2006

LEAGUE CITY—The Bay Area community is one of hundreds of communities nationwide participating in “Underage Drinking Prevention: National Town Hall Meeting.” The Bay Area town meeting is 7-10:30 a.m., Monday, March 27 at the Gilruth Center located on site at NASA/Johnson Space Center.

Sponsored by the Bay Area Alliance for Youth & Families, in collaboration with the Federal government’s Interagency Coordinating Committee for the Prevention of Underage Drinking, the meeting’s purpose is to discuss and raise awareness about the issue of underage drinking. Youth, parents, school officials, law enforcement, health care agencies, church leaders and other community members will be educated about the impact underage drinking has on the community and will be invited to help develop possible solutions.

New national data shows that approximately 29 percent of youth ages 12 to 20 have used alcohol illegally. By the time children reach eighth grade, 41 percent of adolescents have had at least one drink and almost 20 percent report having been drunk once.

Participants include:

“Think…Consequences” Panel

• Judge Louie Ditta – Harris County Justice of the Peace for Precinct 8, Place 2

• Dr. Robert Landry – Director, Research and Educational Services

• Dr. Jon Thompson – Director of the Southeast Texas Poison Center

• Retha Snelson – Parent of a youth killed in a drunk driving accident

“Think… Solutions” Panel

• Julie Stevens, LDCD, CPS – Texas State Liaison for Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

• Clear Creek ISD and Friendswood ISD students will discuss community-based strategies to reduce underage drinking

For more information, call Dr. Julie Purser, director of Bay Area Alliance for Youth & Families, at (281) 316-5724.

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