Do not allow youths to leave and re-enter. Work with local enforcement and ABC agents to enforce underage drinking laws. Work with parents and other community groups to share information and coordinate activities. Volunteer to work with youth at teen centers and after-school programs to help them develop peer leadership and peer pressure resistance skills. Create and sponsor mini-grants for use by student groups and schools for prevention activies.
Local businesses can provide funds.
Write letters to the editor on the need for more attention to the issue of underage drinking. Send letters congratulating your local police department on their underage drinking enforcement efforts. Distribute these addresses to your local newspaper and through community newsletters. Support the PTA 's school based prevention activities. Get involved in local prevention organizations or chapters.