• Report illegal commercial alcohol sales - Call 1-877-CheckID or 770-499-4719
• Report underage drinking parties - Call 911 or your local police precinct
• Refuse to supply alcohol to underage youth in your home or on your property
• Support local law enforcement efforts to enforce alcohol laws
• Join the Cobb Alcohol Taskforce as a volunteer or friend
• Advocate for Social Host Ordinances (See Resolution and FAQ)
• Support Cobb Safe Neighborhoods Safe Homes Campaign 

Parents CAN...

• Know your child's friends' parents and set up a Parent Network
• Talk with other parents/adults to make sure that alcohol is not available at the events youth will attend and monitor your child's activities 
• Talk with and listen to your child regularly
• Provide a consistent family policy re: no teen drinking and set consequences you will carry out
• Check your children's ID's, make sure they don't have fake ID's
• Set a good example for responsible adult alcohol use, if you choose to drink

• Hire, train and supervise responsible staff to keep business in compliance with alcohol sales laws
• Learn and use business best practices for responsible alcohol sales & service by attending a RASS Workshop Evindi 2012.pdf / Stumpe and Associates 2012.pdf / Traning Institute 2012.pdf
• Develop comprehensive written policies; include requirement to ID everyone or at a minimum ID anyone under age 40 
• Use comprehensive and effective employee training programs
• Ensure all sellers/servers know how to properly verify a customer's age and refuse sale/service to minors and intoxicated patrons
• Supervise and monitor employee compliance with company policies and state and local laws

• Conduct high visibility enforcement operations (compliance checks, shoulder taps, party dispersals, or other)
• Develop a system to monitor alcohol-related problems associated with community events & specific establishments
• Ask underage youth who are caught drinking to disclose the source of their alcohol & implement source investigation protocols
• Consistently enforce laws against adult providers & social hosts, as well as minors in possession
• Police the cyber world for underage drinking intelligence
• Establish agency & inter-agency policies & practices to support a community-wide ‘zero adult providers’ approach (across the justice system; enforcement, courts, probation, prison) 

• Develop laws, ordinances, policies, etc. to address commercial availability, social/public availability, and youth possession
• Use licensing and regulatory "best practices" to control alcohol landscape and protect public health and safety
• Use land use planning to control retail outlet density
• Assess existing laws and regulations to identify and close gaps and loopholes
• Identify strengths upon which effective enforcement strategies can be built
• Motivate enforcement and regulatory agencies to strengthen enforcement of exiting laws and regulations

• Be an advocate for community change; challenge adult assumptions
• Join Cobb Alcohol Taskforce's Youth Council and attend Youth Summit
• Ask to see school's written policy, read it, talk about it with others, suggest improvements
• Partner with law enforcement in compliance check operations
• Partner with peers and adults to create alcohol-free events
• Partner with media; write series of articles on alcohol issues/topics that affect youth

• Use unique position to advance social and public policy goals to reduce underage drinking
• Become informed about the issues, solutions and "best practices"
• Cover stories about what is being done to prevent problems, not just report consequences of underage drinking incidences
• Develop PSA's on dangers of underage drinking to offset one-sided advertising messages that glamorize drinking 
• Limit alcohol ad product placements to TV, radio and magazines with majority adult only audiences
• Be an advocate for community change and challenge community assumptions

• Be alert to signs of youth alcohol use, during routine and emergency medical examinations
• Make screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) a standard operating practice/procedure
• Promote and distribute educational literature in public spaces
• Use knowledge and expertise about the dangers of alcohol to support community education and prevention programs
• Talk to parents and youth in your practice about the need to prevent underage and youth binge drinking
• Support the U.S. Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking

• Work to change community attitudes about underage and youth binge drinking
• Help get the word out about underage drinking laws
• Help get the word out about social host laws and legal consequences for adults
• Support parents and caregivers in their roles as mentors and monitors
• Create friendly alcohol-free places and programs where youth can gather, volunteer and succeed without alcohol
• Make it easier for young people who are involved in high risk drinking or at risk for alcohol dependence to get help

• Establish, enforce and evaluate effective campus alcohol policies
• Only sponsor interventions that research has confirmed to be effective
• Provide students with developmentally appropriate knowledge, skills, and motivation to resist peer and other pressures to drink
• Identify students using alcohol and make appropriate intervention and/or treatment referrals
• Train campus personnel to recognize alcohol-related problems, intervene appropriately, and utilize uniform referral protocols
• Provide information to students and families on the consequences of alcohol use, campus alcohol policies and practices, and local sources for more information