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- Kansas Leadership
The Kansas Leadership Committee to Keep Children Alcohol Free is working to educate and change the public's perception of underage drinking. With information distribution through movie slide advertising, public service announcements and working with partners across the state, Kansans will see that underage drinking is not a "Rite Of Passage". A statewide committee of local, regional,
and state representatives have joined to establish the Kansas Leadership
to Keep Children Alcohol Free Initiative.
To reduce the use of alcohol by youth in Kansas.
You may have heard the term, "social hosting," but were unsure of it's meaning. Social hosting is generally defined as providing and/or serving alcohol to a young person who is under the minimum legal drinking age. It can take place in a party-like atmosphere or by any adult simply providing alcohol to young people and their peers for them to drink. It can even extend to parents and homeowners who are not on the premises and/or did not provide the alcohol.
Kansas passed a social host law in 2004, a.k.a. Paul’s Law, named for Paul Riggs, a Lenexa teen who was killed while driving home from a friend’s party, where he and other teenagers had been drinking. The friend’s parents were home during the party while the kids drank alcohol. After Paul’s death, his mother, Debbie Riggs, worked to get a Social Hosting law passed in the Kansas legislature to protect the youth of the state. The law established a new crime of “unlawfully hosting” where persons under the age of 18 consume alcoholic beverages or cereal malt beverages. Unlawfully hosting minors consuming alcoholic liquor or cereal malt beverage is now a Class A person misdemeanor, for which there is a minimum fine of $1,000. During the 2007 Legislative session, the law was recently changed to define a minor as "under the age of 21" instead of 18.
Social Hosting Promotional Piece (All pdf copies-see below) For more information, regarding
social hosting awareness or the "Not In Our House" campaign,
please contact Keri Renner at
(800) 206-7231.
In 2007, as part of the "Not In Our House" campaign, Governor Kathleen Sebelius and Judge Gary Sebelius produced radio public service announcements about social hosting and adults providing alcohol or beer to youth. These PSAs will be distributed and played on radio stations throughout Kansas.
For more information, please contact Keri Renner, Director of Communications & Statewide Networker at (800) 206-7231 or via e-mail at krenner@kansasfamily.com.
One very effective way to promote the initiative to reduce underage drinking is through banner advertising and hyperlink promotion.
By providing a link from your site to ours, your viewer can get more information on Kansas Leadership To Keep Children Alcohol Free as well as download a copy of the "Make A Difference Booklet".
For more information on banner ads and hyperlink promotion, please e-mail Keri Renner, Director of Communications & Statewide Networker, or call (785) 266-6161 or toll free at (800) 206-7231.
The Kansas Leadership Committee to Keep Children Alcohol Free has developed a series of slides shown in movie theatres to promote awareness of underage drinking issues.
Three slides focus on underage drinking statistics for sixth graders, tenth graders and the importance of family involvement.
To order a free disk of the Kansas Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free movie slides, please contact Keri Renner at (800) 206-7231. |
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In
2007, the Kansas Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free unveiled
a new campaign called "Not In Our House," aimed
at educating parents, the public and key leaders about reducing
access to alcohol by Kansas youth in our homes and our communities. Kansas Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free tied their campaign to materials that The International Institute for Alcohol Awareness, Scholastic and The Century Council had published in 2006. This presented an even greater partnership to distribute awareness materials regarding social hosting and underage drinking. 
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