Underage drinking can cause a multitude of problems within the community, making it crucial for community- and faith-based organizations to take action to prevent children from starting to drink alcohol. Below are Federal resources for community and faith-based organizations to use in helping to combat this issue at the local level.
Community How To Guides On Underage Drinking
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
These Community How To Guides address fundamental components of planning and implementing a comprehensive underage drinking prevention program. The guides are designed to be brief, easy to read, and easy to use. Each guide contains a resource section to assist readers in obtaining additional and detailed information about the topics covered in that guide. The appendices include useful tools for each topic area that provide coalitions and organizations with a jump-start in their planning and implementation activities. |
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Focus On Prevention 
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
This guide was developed to help a wide range of groups and communities move from concerns about substance abuse to proven and practical solutions. It is a starting point that offers brief, practical, and easy-to-read information that is useful in planning and delivering prevention strategies. |
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Project Northland
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Project Northland is a community-wide alcohol use prevention research trial, sponsored by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the National Institutes of Health, that builds on research of the past two decades in primary prevention of alcohol, tobacco, and drug use among young adolescents. |
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Reach Out Now National Teach-In
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
To further alert children, parents, and teachers about the dangers of underage alcohol use, and to reinforce the messages in these school-based materials, SAMHSA encourages prominent national, State, and local leaders to conduct Teach-Ins for fifth- and/or sixth-grade classrooms nationwide during April each year. The already-prepared Teach-In curriculum focuses on the lessons in the Reach Out Now materials. |
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SAMHSA Model Programs
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
The SAMHSA Model Programs featured on this site have been tested in communities, schools, social service organizations, and workplaces across America, and have provided solid proof that they have prevented or reduced substance abuse and other related high-risk behaviors. |
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The Party’s Over: Radio PSA
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
These radio PSAs include two announcements directed toward parents and three toward adolescents. The adolescent PSAs are available in a variety of music versions, and you can now listen to them online. |
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Too Smart To Start
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
Too Smart To Start is a public education initiative that provides research-based strategies and materials to professionals and volunteers at the community level to help them conduct an underage alcohol use prevention program. The materials are designed to educate 9- to 13-year-olds about the harms of alcohol use and to support parents and caregivers as they participate in their children's activities. |
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Too Smart To Start Implementation Guide
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
The materials contained in this guide are designed to help you plan, develop, promote, and implement a local initiative to educate 9- to 13-year-olds and their parents about the harms of underage alcohol use and to support parents and caregivers as they participate in their children’s activities. |
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We Don't Serve Teens
Federal Trade Commission
It is the law: The legal drinking age in the United States is 21. Parents and communities both need to support this law and not serve alcohol to teens. This Web site provides tools and information that support the need to reduce teen drinking and related harm. |
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