Engage in Conversation

The Leadership To Keep Children Alcohol Free Foundation is pleased to announce ENGAGE--a new resource to help you hold conversations on childhood drinking in your community, home, or place of work.  Hundreds of communities across the United States have held conversations in many formats since the Surgeon General released the Call to Action to Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking in 2007. 

ENGAGE  is intended to encourage not only the continuation of previous conversations on childhood drinking in Town Hall meetings and Task Forces, but also to encourage new conversations.  Conversations can be of all types in such places as  homes with several sets of parents/guardians, during a lunch periods in workplaces with co-workers, in  faith-based or community settings where parents/guardians gather for other reasons.  These are just a few places where concerned community members, and most especially parents, can begin to talk about this important public health issue. 

Conversations - When and Where Can They Happen?

• Conversations can be virtual - as in social networking communities via Twitter and Facebook (or Other)
• Conversations can be informal --between two or more neighbors, friends, parents, co-workers, club members in homes, small meeting places, workplaces, clubs -- such as in a National Issues Forum or unorganized, random conversations
• Conversations can be formal -- in a community setting with an intended audience, agenda, and desired outcome such as a Town Hall Meeting

The purpose of Engage is to provide resources to help you hold conversations about childhood drinking-- wherever they might be.