1900 stickers were placed on packaged liquor in 11 different retail stores, thanks to 21 youth and 9 adult volunteers on December 29th. Jackson County Youth Coalition and Jackson County Communities That Care Coalition joined forces to implement the campaign encouraging adults in the county to not provide alcohol to minors. The stickers reminds adults that it is illegal to provide alcohol to anyone under 21 years old and that there are many negative consequences for doing so.

JCYC members will participate in a holiday Sticker Shock Campaign to raise awareness about underage drinking. They will team up with law enforcement, ABC & other JCCTCC members to place stickers on alcoholic beverages reminding adults that it is illegal to provide alcohol to a minor. This project aims to reach individuals 21 years old and older who legally purchase alcohol and then illegally provide it to minors. Participating retail stores partner with JCCTCC and JCYC organizations to help prevent alcohol-related deaths, injuries and other risks too often associated with the holiday season and underage drinking. The stickers will be distributed on December 29th. The group to cover Holton businesses will meet at 10:00 a.m. at Buzzard’s Pizza for a short orientation and then will go out in groups to local retailers to put the stickers on. They will return to Buzzard’s for pizza after they are finished. The Hoyt/Mayetta area group will meet at the Royal Valley High School Gym at 12:30 for pizza and short orientation and then go out to place the stickers at about 1:00 pm.

Buzzed Drivers are people who drink and drive yet don’t consider themselves to be hazards on the roadways or a drunk driver.
Target Population:
1) Primarily made up of males ages 21-34, well-meaning “average Joes” who don’t mean any harm but continue to drink and drive, either feeling invincible or just unrealistically optimistic about the control they have over their lives.
2) Also comprised of women ages 21-44, who are going out socially for a drink and most often try to moderate their drinking so they can drive home.

Please don’t drink and drive!

The principal concern regarding drugged driving is that driving under the influence of any drug that acts on the brain could impair one’s motor skills, reaction time, and judgment. Drugged driving is a public health concern because it puts not only the driver at risk, but also passengers and others who share the road. (InfoFacts: Drugged Driving, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2010)

This was the 2nd annual JCYC Tobacco Prevention Dodge-ball Tournament. This year’s event took place at the Royal Valley High School. 13 teams entered the fun competition. Each team was also given informational pamphlets about the facts and dangers of tobacco use. Students from each team were required to take a quiz which they found the answers for in the information given them. Many students from Royal Valley and Holton also participated in a competition to market the dangers of tobacco to support a no use message. Winners will be announced later this week. Door prizes were given at the end of the tournament and all participants were eligible to win.

Please help us celebrate Red Ribbon Week, October 23-31st.

Wear red, a red ribbon, decorate your house, door, car or store front in RED!

Celebrating Red Ribbon Week signals that you are joining the fight
against drinking and drug abuse to help kids grow up safe, healthy and drug-free!!

Thank you for valuing our youth and community by sending a clear message of your
support.

DID YOU KNOW……….
Children of parents/guardians who talk to their teens regularly about the dangers
of drugs are 42% less likely to use drugs than those who don’t, yet only a quarter
of teens report having these conversations.

Value Our Children - You can make a difference……….

Judge Tommy Webb focuses on making a positive difference in a negative world.
He has experienced life from a perspective not shared by individuals who live in this part of the world. His dynamic message to value and appreciate the qualities of other people is delivered with a sense of humor that will be inspiring, thought provoking and entertaining.
See details on attached flyer.
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A day to eat dinner with your children.
The more often youth eat dinner with their families………..
………..the less likely they are to smoke, drink or use drugs!

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Members of the Holton JCYC help kick off the school’s new tobacco free zone policy during Friday nights home football game. Spectators are being made aware of the new policy and are asked to please support the policy be abstaining from all uses of tobacco products while on school grounds.

On July 31st JCYC leader Sheri Dibbern and JCCTCC Coordinator, Deanne Armstrong took 5 JCYC youth members to the Kansas Youth Leadership Summit held at Rock Springs 4-H Center in Junction City, KS.
The program was sponsored by Kansas Family Partnership, Inc. and Kansas Department of Transportation. This was a 3 day high energy, action packed summit with approximately 200 youth from all across Kansas. The Summit was established to encourage everyone to get involved in helping solve the problem of UNDERAGE DRINKING and encouraging youth to wear their SAFETY BELTS at all times. The group from Jackson County attended 5 educational workshops over the 3 days, heard 3 testimonial presentations, participated in many team building sessions, learned leadership skills and created an action plan to help decrease the problems they identified in Jackson County. The #1 problem they see is alcohol parties among teens. (Other problems they identified were: early age of alcohol use, parents not being involved and having clear rules, poor role models among youth and local sports leaders, and vandalism /theft.

Youth who attended the Summit were: Kassidy Dahl from Royal Valley High School, Mikayla Booth and Haley Jacobs from Holton High School, Amber Dibbern and Rosalie Wilkerson from Jackson Heights High School.