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Mantengamos A Los Niños Libres De Alcohol: Estrategias Para Entrar En Accion
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Hosting Underage Drinking Parties:  Criminal Liabilties - NEW!

Science, Kids and Alcohol:  Research Briefs - NEW!

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Get Involved - 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.

Mission

To reduce the use of alcohol by youth in Kansas.

Goals

  • To educate the public about the incidence and impact of early alcohol use by Kansas youth;
  • To energize the public to address this issue within their families, schools and communities in a sustained way and to work for change;
  • To focus the attention of State policy makers and opinion leaders on the seriousness of the problem of alcohol use by young children; and
  • To make the reduction of alcohol use by children a state priority.
"Not In Our House" campaign


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.      

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.

  • Social host liability refers to laws that hold non-commercial individuals responsible for underage drinking events on property that they own, lease or otherwise control.
  • You may not need to actually serve or provide alcohol to underage guests to violate these laws.
  • The penalties for breaking this law include possible jail time, and the potential for criminal or civil lawsuits, as well as public humiliation for breaking the law.
  • By violating the law, you are sending every child you know a message that can have risky consequences.


History of the Kansas Social Host Law

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.

Downloadable Resources


We appreciate your interest in our downloadable items.  The following materials were created by Kansas Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free.  When using or distributing these resources, please give credit to Kansas Leadership or Kansas Family Partnership.  Thank you!

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.

Partners of the "Not In Our House" Campaign

Public Service Announcements

     

The Kansas Leadership Committee to Keep Children Alcohol Free, with the help of the Kansas Highway Patrol and Judge Gary Sebelius, produced a public service announcement (PSA) directed towards parents.

Parents and others who are interested are encouraged to contact Kansas Family Partnership and request a copy of the "Make A Difference" booklet.  Copies of the PSA have been distributed to television media outlets and have aired on several stations throughout Kansas. 

Click the play button on the video at the right or if you prefer, you can access the television PSA in these formats:

 

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. 

  :60 PSA <-- click to play
  :30 PSA <-- click to play

For more information, please contact Keri Renner, Director of Communications & Statewide Networker at (800) 206-7231 or via e-mail at krenner@kansasfamily.com.

 

Links & Banner Ads

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.

 

Movie Slide Advertising

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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