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Principle 6: Community corrections agencies and professionals should be aware of and collaborate with community-based and justice system strategies and programs to reduce underage drinking. Underage drinking presents social, health, and justice system problems that cannot be resolved by a single person or agency. Returning full circle to the first principle discussed, effective intervention requires a comprehensive approach that can be achieved only through cooperation and collaboration with those in other fields. Drug court projects have demonstrated the benefits of coordinated approaches among justice system and treatment providers when working with substance-abusing youth. All jurisdictions and agencies must work continually toward building and improving alliances to foster public safety, offender accountability, and individual competency development and treatment. The foundation of collaboration involves sharing knowledge, information, resources, power, and decision-making so that individuals and organizations may work together to achieve a significant positive impact in their community and a more consistent response to underage drinking. As described at the beginning of this report, forming such partnerships between agencies and organizations is an underlying objective of the EUDL program. The Appendix provides “real world” examples of community coalitions and programs from around the country that have been formed to address underage drinking. There are several key reasons for collaborating with a variety of agencies and stakeholders to consider in the community supervision of underage drinking offenders: • A variety of participants will bring different viewpoints about underage drinking to the decisionmaking process. These varied ideas can be honed into a final plan that best meets the needs of the agency and the community. • The agencies and stakeholders may identify many of the issues, problems, and barriers associated with underage drinking in the community. If such concerns are recognized from the outset, valuable time can be saved in the planning process. • Involving stakeholders from the initiation of the process helps secure long-term investment in project. • Involved stakeholders are likely to be good ambassadors for the strategies put forth by the group. A well-chosen group of stakeholders can have far-reaching effects, including promoting the program and coming to its defense if the program encounters any problems. 24
Conclusion Before embarking on a new program area or placing additional emphasis on the supervision of particular youth, it is vital that professionals have a firm grounding in the reasons behind what they are doing. This section has outlined some key assumptions that support the supervision of underage drinkers. Finally, six principles of community supervision of underage drinking offenders were shown as a foundation for the guidelines presented in the remainder of this document. 25
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Page 52 and 53: Exhibit V-i Risk Factors for Adoles
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Because their reasons for using and
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The basic reality is that family me
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Community corrections staff should
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Exhibit V-p Sanctions for Noncompli
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CONCLUSION In moving away from a on
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REFERENCES ACT for Youth (Upstate C
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Engs R. C., Diebold, B. A., & Hanse
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Mullins, T. G., & Toner, C. (2008).
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U.S. Department of Health and Human
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• Encouraging the state governmen
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Underage drinking is intertwined wi
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Source: http://www.mindcreators.com
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