November 17, 2011 Meeting
Attendance:
Phil M., Ralph, Jack, Ann, Marty, Boyd, GloriaAnn, Mike, Jaime and Tammie
50/50 draw?
Happy Bucks: Mike and Ann
50 #1 lb bags of wild rice available for sale for $5.00, proceeds going towards PolioPlus.
Program: Tammie Doebler was the program and updated the group on the progress of the Prevention Coalition Grant that Lake of the Woods County received.
This is a community project grant with a goal to prevent alcohol, tobacco and drug use among our youth. Lake of the Woods County oversees the grant and Tammie started work on this project September 1, 2011. Previously, Tammie worked on a similar grant in Roseau County. Joyce Washburn and Tammie are housed in the high school A/V Tech room.
The grant focuses on three groups: Working with parents, students and community members.
The grant is data driven and based on a community readiness survey, 800 surveys were sent out to the community. In the next few months, parent and youth surveys will be conducted. A media campaign will be created from the results (facts) from these surveys.
On November 28, a beverage server training class will be held for the community. This class helps beverage servers identify fake ids and provides training on carding minors. Most businesses that go through this training get a reduction in their insurance premiums.
It is a long process to change the culture of an area and it will take several years to implement, but after year one, the hope is to have an increased awareness and to be able to clear the misperceptions associated with underaged drinking.
The community still feels that underaged drinking is OK if it is "controlled". There is also a skewed perceptions that "everybody" drinks and the amounts they drink.
Some data that was identified from the surveys in Roseau were that 90% of parents said they talked to their kids about drinking and drug use, while only 45% of the students surveyed said that their parents talked to them about drinking and drug use.
Having "nothing" to do is not an excuse for underaged drinking. The focus of conversations with our students will be how we get them to choose what we DO have to do.
Lake of the Woods County has a high number of DWI per capita partly due to our tourism industry and the high exposure to alcohol/drinking establishments.
ay. This includes Minimum Maintenance Roads, Forest Roads - even though they are not plowed they are improved.
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