Cobb Alcohol Taskforce Premiere Video

The Cobb Alcohol Taskforce premiered Youth Know the Truth: Inside an Underage Drinking Party (YKT) at their recent bimonthly taskforce meeting hosted at Turner Chapel AME Church on Tuesday, February 14, 2012.  Youth Know the Truth: Inside an Underage Drinking Party is a taped compilation of two live productions, staged spring 2011, of a guided tour and re-enactment of an underage drinking party in a private home. The video production lives at www.cobbat.org/safehomes and on YouTube.

The Cobb Alcohol Taskforce Youth Council decided to use the environmental strategy of staging a mock underage drinking party at their Youth Summit, fall 2010. Private home parties are the primary source by which youth obtain alcohol. Research shows that private home parties frequently lack adult supervision, are the source for other drug use, risky sexual behaviors, violence and vandalism. Sixty-one percent of Cobb 10^th and 12^th graders participating in the 2009 Georgia Student Health Survey said that they use alcohol at a friend's house. The youth council hopes that the live and taped productions of YKT will be an eye-opener for Cobb County adults. 

Having identified alcohol as a top threat to adolescent health and safety with serious effects on public health, safety, crime and quality of life, the taskforce encourages viewers of the taped YKT production to take action by joining Cobb Safe Neighborhoods Safe Homes (CSNSH). The CSNSH campaign asks Cobb County residents to agree to six common sense safety steps to help adults keep youth safe by reducing their access to alcohol. The YKT and CSNSH videos and CSNSH agreement forms live at www.cobbat.org/safehomes.

About the Cobb Alcohol Taskforce - Cobb Alcohol Taskforce is an alliance of individuals and organizations which mobilizes and challenges Cobb County adults to reduce underage drinking and youth binge drinking, by advancing strategic enforcement, policy and education goals. To learn more, visit www.cobbat.org or call 770-861-5758.