Collaborating to stop underage and alcohol use - collaborating for youth (CFY), a former drug free communities (DFC) coalition in rural adams county, pennsylvania, will use stop act funding to prevent…

Collaborating to stop underage and alcohol use - collaborating for youth (CFY), a former drug free communities (DFC) coalition in rural adams county, pennsylvania, will use stop act funding to prevent and reduce alcohol use among approximately 12,000-14,000 youth ages 12-20 across six public school district communities through coordinated environmental strategies, social-norms campaigns, caregiver education, and intergovernmental enforcement alignment - building sustainable coalition capacity to continue a demonstrated downward trend in youth drinking. Geographic area and capacity development need adams county is a rural, south-central pennsylvania county (population ~107,914) situated along the i-81/i-83 trafficking corridor, home to gettysburg national military park and one of the commonwealth's largest agricultural/cider-producing regions - an economy that makes alcohol highly visible to youth. CFY serves six school-district communities: bermudian springs, conewago valley, fairfield area, gettysburg area, littlestown area, and upper adams. Capacity gaps include uneven district-level policy and enforcement, limited coordinated messaging across six districts and multiple law-enforcement jurisdictions, and no dedicated stop-funded infrastructure for intergovernmental coordination. Population of focus youth and young adults ages 12-20 enrolled in grades 6-12 across adams county's six public school districts (~12,000-14,000 students). The county is approximately 50/50 female/male; ~24% of households fall within the alice threshold; most schools report free-and-reduced-lunch rates of 50% or higher. The population includes youth involved with juvenile justice, social services, and child welfare, and families of veterans. Strategies and interventions CFY will implement evidence-based and evidence-informed strategies aligned with the state performance and best practices for the prevention and reduction of underage drinking, including: (1) parents who host lose the most (pwhltm) caregiver campaigns in all six districts; (2) spring/prom social-norms projects reaching 4,000 students annually; (3) positive social-norms messaging on teen-appropriate streaming platforms (30,000 listeners/year); (4) school alcohol-policy review and district-specific pays data presentations; (5) a multi-jurisdictional law-enforcement coordination process; (6) town halls on underage-drinking laws, risks, and CO-occurring mental-health concerns; (7) a cross-district youth advisory group CO-creating program design and messaging; (8) the national talk. They hear you. ® campaign adapted for local audiences; and (9) trauma-informed training for youth-serving professionals.