Safe yakima stop underage drinking - safe yakima's dfat stop underage drinking initiative will target youth and young adults 12 to 20 years of age with a variety of environmental strategies, programs,…

Safe yakima stop underage drinking - safe yakima's dfat stop underage drinking initiative will target youth and young adults 12 to 20 years of age with a variety of environmental strategies, programs, and activities designed to increase awareness of the issue of youth alcohol use, educate youth and adults on viable techniques for maintaining alcohol free lifestyles, and facilitating access prevention, reduction, and recovery resources. Along with maintaining the momentum describe above, safe yakima and the dfat are currently working to increase community collaborations beyond the originally defined target area. As we approach the end of our DFC program support, we are looking to expand our partnership base to blanket the greater yakima more effectively with institutionalized prevention (i.e., policies, programming, practices) and more efficiently apply the limited human and financial resources at our disposal. The goal of the dfat stop act project is to reduce 30-day alcohol use among 8TH grade students from the 2021 baseline of 5.5% to 1% or less. The following are the measurable objectives backed by the activities listed in the stop timeline: 1) increase the number of community partners committed to the prevention and reduction of youth alcohol use from 12 to 36 by september 29, 2027, 2) increase the number of environmental strategies targeting alcohol by 40% by september 29, 2027, 3) increase perceived risk of harm from alcohol use from 74.7% (great risk) to 80% by september 29, 2027, and 4) increase perceived peer disapproval of alcohol use among 8TH grade students from 78.3% (very wrong) to 95% by september 29, 2027.