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Enforcing The Underage Drinking Laws Grant Program
Juvenile Justice

The Enforcing The Underage Drinking Laws Grant Program was appropriated under Public Law 105-119 for the fiscal year 1998. The appropriation of $359,000 for fiscal year 2002 from the US Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is to enforce State laws prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages to minors and prevent the purchase or consumption of alcoholic beverages to minors.

Goals and objectives include:

• To socially market, in an effective and efficient manner, the message of preventing underage drinking.
• To get the message of preventing underage drinking out to as many of the state’s youth as possible.
• To promote messages that are meaningful and effective for youth.
• To increase the involvement of the state’s youth in preventing underage drinking.
• To increase the involvement of parents and teachers in prevention efforts.
• Involve and collaborate with other state prevention efforts targeting underage drinking.
• Utilize the underage drinking prevention messages to impact community norms concerning underage drinking.
• To develop and implement innovative comprehensive community underage drinking programs that include an enforcement component, as well as prevention, intervention and follow up.
• To form an interagency task force made up of local agencies and youth leadership deemed appropriate to address the problem of underage drinking through a multidisciplinary approach.
• To provide advertising and/or education on the hazards and consequences of underage drinking.
• To conduct STING operations that target establishments that sell alcoholic beverages to underage youth.
• To fine persons selling, purchasing or giving alcoholic beverages to underage youth.
• To identify underage youth attempting to purchase alcohol.
• To provide mandatory intervention, diversion and educational programming on underage drinking and community service for youth identified as attempting to purchase alcohol.
• To provide a follow up consultation at one month, three months and six months, to youth identified as attempting to purchase alcohol.

Performance Measures:

• Solicit applications from units of government for preventing and combating underage drinking efforts.
• Fund eight projects that address the identification of the targeted population, services and programming for that population, and enforcement of state and federal laws.
• Conduct a statewide essay competition among middle and high school students about peer pressure related to drugs and alcohol.
• Linkage of other school and community prevention programs.
• Create a panel of students from around the state to serve on the panel of judges and choose the top five essays in each category (middle school & high school or by individual grades).
• Identify faculty and professionals from around the state to work with winners of each category in PHASE II of the project.

Eligible Applicants: State and Local units of government

Grant Cycle: This grant program operates on the state fiscal year, June 1 to July 31 .

Please contact Jason Carlson, (304) 558-8814, extension 223 for more information.

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