Repeat: New Sacramento Coalition Formed to Save Lives by Fighting Underage Drinking...

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Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:30am EDT 

Repeat: New Sacramento Coalition Formed to Save Lives by Fighting Underage
Drinking Through Education and Enforcement
 Coalition to provide experts, address national debate to lower the drinking  
                            age to 18 years

    What:   "Minor drinking... a major problem" news media event. Last year,
            222 California teens died in alcohol-related traffic crashes.
            Scores more died from alcohol poisoning.

    When:   Wednesday, August, 27, 2008, 10 a.m.

    Why:    Sacramento is fighting back with new initiatives and Labor Day DUI
            enforcement

    Where:  Elk Grove Regional Park, Youth Center in park, 9950 Elk
            Grove-Florin Road
            Google Map:  http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

    Who:    The Sacramento Regional Youth and Alcohol Coalition
            MC: Chris Cochran, Assistant Director OTS
            Chris Murphy, Director of OTS
            Dave Gill, assistant director, Northern Division, state Department
            of Alcoholic Beverage Control
            Chief Robert Simmons, Elk Grove Police Department
            Battalion Chief Peter Sakaris, Chief of Emergency Medical Services
            Division, Cosumnes Fire Department,
            Dr. Steve Offerman, emergency medicine physician, Kaiser
            Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center
            Amelia Stults, Student Health Center, California State University,
            Sacramento
            Pandee Yang, Elk Grove High School student/Friday Night Live
            member


    Background:
    Too many Californians are dying because of alcohol-related incidents. To
address this growing challenge, a new coalition has formed to attempt to save
young lives through educational and enforcement efforts. This new coalition
was formed to raise awareness about the dangers of underage drinking.
    About the Sacramento Regional Youth and Alcohol Coalition
    The Coalition meets on a bi-monthly basis to collect data, develop
objectives and identify resources available to confront the problem of
underage alcohol consumption in the Sacramento area.  With a mission to
improve the health and safety of adolescents through positive change of
community response to underage alcohol use, it offers free membership to all
organizations and agencies interested in preventing underage drinking.  For
more information about the Coalition, visit
http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/injuryprevention or call Christy Adams at the UC
Davis Trauma Prevention Program (916) 734-9794, or Erin Meluso,
(949) 400-3436, radd1@aol.com.
SOURCE  Sacramento Regional Youth and Alcohol Coalition
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