HARRISBURG – A conference sponsored by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board will bring together educators, students, counselors, law-enforcement officials and other concerned community leaders to share strategies to combat underage and high-risk drinking.
“Project Blueprint: A ‘How To’ Conference on Building Effective Strategies to Reduce Dangerous and Underage Drinking,” will be held April 2 – 3 in New Cumberland.
This is the Liquor Control Board’s seventh annual conference for young adults, parents, educators, law-enforcement and community leaders to share experiences and best practices in alcohol education.
“Each year our Bureau of Alcohol Education gathers the many stakeholders in this important issue – from Pennsylvania and beyond – so they may compare the newest and best strategies to prevent the misuse and abuse of alcohol by young adults,” said Patrick J. “P.J.” Stapleton III, chairman of the Liquor Control Board. “These conferences allow experts to share the practices and policies that work best in their towns, on their campuses.”
In his keynote address Thursday morning, Penn State Professor Robert Turrisi, who has written extensively on students’ transition from high school to college, will discuss how parents can maintain communications with children away at school, and how their involvement may help reduce students’ use of alcohol.
Other sessions include discussions on:
-Effective law enforcement in college settings, led by municipal law-enforcement officers and university public-safety officials;
-Working with community landlords to set “house rules” for students in off-campus housing; and
-Youth gambling, with an exploration of warning signs and prevention techniques.
“April is Alcohol Awareness Month, so there is no better time to explore the ways that community leaders can work together to reduce dangerous and unlawful drinking,” said Jerry W. Waters Sr., director of Liquor Control Board’s office of regulatory affairs. “We are proud to bring together once again people who have hands-on experience, so they may share their expertise in this critical issue.”
“Project Blueprint: A ‘How To’ Conference on Building Effective Strategies to Reduce Dangerous and Underage Drinking,” will begin at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 2, at the Holiday Inn & Conference Center, I-83 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike, 148 Sheraton Drive, New Cumberland.
Co-sponsors of the conference are the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency; the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association; and The Network, a national consortium of education professionals that shares and disseminates information to help curb alcohol and other drug abuse as well as violent behavior among college students.
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