Refuse to supply alcohol to underage youth in your home or on your property.

Support local law enforcement efforts.

Report underage drinking parties.

Store alcohol out of reach of youth.

Schedule a speaker for your local group.

Report illegal commercial alcohol sales.

Join the Underage Drinking Prevention Forum

Talk with your child about the dangers of alcohol on developing brains.

Provide a consistent family policy: no teen drinking, set consequences you will carry out.

Know your child’s friends’ parents and set up a “parent network”.

Talk with other parents/adults to make sure that alcohol is not available at the events your youth attends.

Check your children’s ID’s, make sure they don’t have fake ID’s.

Set a good example for responsible adult alcohol use.

Help everyone focus on the positive...not all teens drink.

Be an advocate for community change; challenge adult assumptions.

Ask to see your school’s written policy, read it, talk about it with others and suggest improvements.

Partner with peers and adults to create alcohol-free events.

Partner with media; write articles on alcohol issues/topics that affect youth.

Provide safe and positive youth activities.

Stay informed.

Realize all young people are at-risk on a daily basis.

Know other positive community resources for youth.

Partner with community groups.

Hire, train and supervise responsible staff to stay in compliance with alcohol sales and service laws.

Attend training of licensees; learn business best practices for responsible alcohol sales and service.

Develop comprehensive written policies; use comprehensive and effective employee training programs.

Monitor employee compliance with company policies and laws.

Understand that Michigan vertical ID indicates person is under 21.

Offer information to employees on the harmful effects of alcohol on children.

Support after school programs.

Provide referral services for families in need of assistance.

Support and encourage youth mentoring programs.

Support programs and organizations keeping kids engaged and promoting healthy choices.

Conduct compliance checks in each licensed alcohol establishment.

Develop a system to monitor alcohol related problems associated with community events.

Conduct regular walk-through of licensed establishments.

Conduct party dispersal operations as a means to control underage drinking parties, citing adult providers in addition to youth in possession of alcohol.

Consistently enforce laws against adult providers and social hosts.

Ask underage youth who are caught drinking to disclose the source of their alcohol.

Advance social and public policy to reduce underage drinking.

Stay informed about the issues, solutions and “Best Practices” .

Cover stories about what is being done to prevent problems, not just report consequences of underage drinking.

Develop PSA’s on dangers of underage drinking to offset one-sided advertising messages that glamorize drinking.

Limit alcohol ad product placements to TV, radio and magazines with majority adult only audiences.

Be an advocate for community change; challenge community assumptions.

Provide information on brain development for parents.

Identify alcohol use in adolescent patients.

Be familiar with and strengthen referral network for adolescents.

Support community efforts responding to underage drinking.

Begin lessons on alcohol as early as 3rd and 4th grades.

Establish reporting rules, referrals, and services for students and parents in need.

Support after school activities to reduce risk behaviors.

Ban clothing advertising alcohol or related products.

Establish and enforce code of conduct for students engaged in sports and extracurricular activities.

Develop laws, ordinances, policies, etc. to address commercial availability and youth possession.

Use licensing and regulatory “Best Practices” to control alcohol landscape and protect public health and safety.

Use land use planning to control retail outlet density.

Assess existing laws and regulations to identify and close gaps and loopholes.

Ensure funding for effective prevention strategies.

Motivate enforcement and regulatory agencies to strengthen enforcement of existing laws and regulations.

Restrict advertising to minors.

Support education on the importance of avoiding alcohol until of legal age.

Require posting of visible warning signs and labels regarding health risks, DUI, etc.

Partner with organizations to prevent youth access to alcohol.

Train industry employees on the importance of preventing underage drinking.