Introduces

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• Introduces
• CMCA
• Communities Mobilizing
• For Change on Alcohol

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CMCA

• a community-organizing model program designed to
  reduce teens (13-20 years of age) access to
  alcohol by changing community policies and
  practices.

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Goal in Oakland County

• Mobilize community members to seek and achieve
  changes in local public policies and practices
  that affect youth access to alcohol.

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Through Community Organizing

• Assess legal, community, social and health issues
  related to underage drinking
• Limit alcohol sales to minors
• Obstruct the provision of alcohol to youth
• Reduce alcohol use by teens.

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Evidence Based Program

• Established research has shown that the practices
  of CMCA will
• Decrease sales of alcohol to 13-20 year old youth
  in bars and restaurants.
• Decrease the number of youth who are provided
  alcohol by other youth.
• Reduce DUI arrests of 18-20 year old youth.

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Collaboration in CMCA

• To communicate a clear community standard that
  underage drinking is inappropriate and
  unacceptable.

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Communitiy organizing will

• Activate a diverse citizenry from throughout
  Oakland County to achieve institutional and
  policy change.

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Based on research in other communities using
CMCA processes,

• 18-20 year old youth in Oakland County will
  become
• Less likely to try to purchase alcohol,
• Less likely to go to bars to drink,
• Less likely to drink alcohol,
• Less likely to provide alcohol to underage youth.

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ACHC invites you to CMCA

• Attend the CMCA Intensive Training
• March 25-26 Introduction to the program to
  engage communities in reducing youth access to
  alcohol through effective organizing and policy
  change. This hands-on training is designed to
  integrate the foundations of environmental
  prevention strategies into the CMCA process.
• Future trainings will be focus on community
  organizing, policy and planning, youth-adult
  partnerships, evaluation and assessment, and
  sustainability.
• Join the CMCA Strategy Team

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For more information

• Go to achconline.org, click the CMCA button on
  the home page.
• Or contact Donnis Reese, 248-802-6789.