Youth Access to Alcohol Project
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The Youth Access to Alcohol (YATA ) project is a nationwide ALAC initiative in 22 communities, of which Nelson is one.
YATA aims to encourage and support local community action targeted at reducing the illegal and /or irresponsible supply of alcohol by adults to young people.
In Nelson the core group (with representatives from Nelson City Council, Public Health, Health Action Trust, and the Police) will:
identify performance indicators, form a youth reference group, and complete a panel survey, and parent survey.
The parent survey is to identify parental knowledge levels of law and supply issues and how to best convey information to that identified group.
We also plan to identify proxy indicators in collaboration with the police, ED, Independent Nursing Service, & Nelson Alcohol and Other Drug Service.
YATA update May 2006:
The parent survey was completed in Dec 04 and involved 5 schools and other agencies. The results of the study were diseminated to PTA's, schools and parents. We are now looking at supporting schools and PTA's to address identified needs. See the "YATA Parent Survey Executive Summary". Thanx to NCC Safer Community Council for funding this and other YATA initiatives.
The proxy indicator report was completed in May 05 and drew together data on youth and alcohol use including Police, LTSA, Emergency Department, and Alcohol & Drug Services statisitcs. The report included both qualitative and quantitative data, as shown in the Proxy Indicators Executive Summary. Continued collection of the data has been proposed to NCC as part of their monitoring and evalaution component of the alcohol strategy.
Thanx to ALAC for funding this research
YATA was involved in the NCC Alcohol Strategy working party which refers to underge drinking as an area of concern.
A number of YATA projects were independently evaluated in 2005 and Nelson YATA group was one of those evaluated. An initial case study has been completed and we now await the outcome of the full report to further direct our work in 2006.