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Welcome to Tehama County Friday Night Live! We are a youth leadership club which focuses on the prevention of alcohol, tobacco, other drugs and violence.

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What is Friday Night Live/Club Live?

Friday Night Live/Club Live ( FNL/CL) is a unique organization that provides youth the opportunity to create, plan and implement their own activities. While providing them with the value of membership and belonging, Friday Night Live and Club Live also incorporate the teaching of such critical life skills as goal setting, decision making, communicating and problem solving. The young people are given the opportunity to contribute to their communities through service and adult mentors.

Statewide, FNL/CL strives to assist youth in being Problem Free AND Fully Prepared, which means youth are given skills to live a life free of problems such as alcohol, tobacco and other drug use and related problems like violence and teen pregnancy, and fully prepared with leadership skills and knowledge to be successful. In Tehama County, our vision statement is My Community...My Future, which demonstrates FNL/CL commitment to making differences in our communities that will impact our future.

Click here for Friday Night Live Standards of Practice

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Parents Who Host Lose The Most

Parents play a major role in their children’s choices about alcohol, tobacco or other drugs.  In a recent national survey of parents and teens by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, one-third of teen partygoers have been to parties where teens were drinking alcohol, smoking pot, or using cocaine, Ecstasy or prescription drugs while a parent was present. By age 17, nearly half (46 percent) of teens have been at such parties where parents were present.

Drug-Free Action Alliance has developed the “Parents Who Host, Lose The Most: Don’t be a party to teenage drinking” public awareness campaign to provide parents with accurate information about the health risks of underage drinking and the legal consequences of providing alcohol to youth.  The campaign message is focused toward prom and graduation parties. 

Friday Night Live, through our Federal Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse Project SOS (Students Operating Sober), will be partnering with Drug Free Action Alliance to educate Tehama County residents about social hosting. We are seeking to educate parents about the laws and safety risks involved in underage drinking parties, and encourage a unified message that teen alcohol consumption is unhealthy, unsafe and unacceptable.

The “Parents Who Host, Lose The Most: Don’t be a party to teenage drinking” campaign is a program of Drug-Free Action Alliance with funding from the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services.  More information is available at www.DrugFreeActionAlliance.org.

A Few Facts about Underage Use of Alcohol

• 29% of 1,381 parents surveyed and 29% of 811 teens surveyed indicated that they know of parents who host teen alcohol parties.
  
  (Source: “Parents Who Host, Lose The Most: Don’t be a party to teenage drinking” Evaluation Report, January 2007)
• 25% of 811 teens surveyed indicated that they have attended a party where alcohol is served to underage youth in the past two months, while parents thought the number was closer to 15%; 12% of the youth maintained that they drank alcohol at the party or they would have drunk if they had attended a party.
  
  (Source: “Parents Who Host, Lose The Most: Don’t be a party to teenage drinking” Evaluation Report, January 2007)
• 68% of 1,264 parents surveyed and 61% of 770 teens surveyed said that it is generally easy for underage youth to get alcohol.
  
  (Source: “Parents Who Host, Lose The Most: Don’t be a party to teenage drinking” Evaluation Report, January 2007)
• Every day, 5,400 young people under 16 have their first drink of alcohol.
  
  (Source: Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth with calculations from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2004 National Survey on Drug Use and Health)
• Studies reveal that alcohol consumption by adolescents results in brain damage - possibly permanent -and impairs intellectual development.  (Source: Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research (Volume 24, Number 2 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, February 2000)
• Underage drinking cost Ohioans $273 million in medical costs in 2005. (Source: Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 2006)
• Adolescents drink less and have fewer alcohol-related problems when their parents discipline them consistently and set clear expectations. (Source: Hawkins JD, Graham JW, Maguin E, et al. 1997 Exploring the effects of age of alcohol use initiation and psychosocial risk factors on subsequent alcohol misuse. Journal of Studies on Alcohol. 58(3): 280-290)
• If drinking is delayed until age 21, a child’s risk of serious alcohol problems is decreased by 70 percent. (Source: Calculated from information contained in: Grant BF, Dawson DA. 1997, Age at onset of alcohol use and its association with DSM-IV alcohol abuse and dependence. Results from the National Longitudinal Alcohol Epidemiologic Survey. Journal of Substance Abuse 9:103-110.)
  

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Students Operating Sober

Look here for updates on our new Alcohol Prevention program, Students Operating Sober.

• Our activities take place at Los Molinos High, Salisbury, and Red Bluff High.
• Our Projects will include classroom alcohol, tobacco and other drug education; community awareness activities;
  family program “Creating Lasting Family Connections”
  and Youth Leadership.
• Curriculum for SOS
  • Too Good for Drugs
  • Creating Lasting Family Connections
  • Girls Inc. Friendly PEERsuasion
  • Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol
  • Class Action

Look for session dates here!

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