Ideas for Getting Started
There are two overall goals for your Town Hall Meetings:
- Bring the community together to discuss how to reduce underage drinking in the local community;
- Motivate parents, grandparents and other adults to talk with children about not using alcohol before age 21.
Action Steps:
Determine your local community’s purpose
If your community is just starting to focus on the issue of underage alcohol use, we’ve designed a potential agenda for you to consider using. It’s attached.
If your community wants to target a specific concern (such as too many alcohol signs in store windows, beer gardens at local festivals, alcohol billboards, alcohol sponsorship of sports teams or at sports stadiums, etc) the RUaD Coalition has designed a Reducing Alcohol Marketing Action Kit that will give you ideas for tackling these environmental issues. It includes a power point presentation and “This Place” video that you can use at your Town Hall Meeting. The Action Kit is at the printers now and will be sent to you on Feb. 15.
Identify your Planning Committee
Determine members, select a chair, identify meeting time and place.
Determine your target population
Is your town hall meeting for parents, young people, community-at-large?
Select the location, day, and time for your THM
Consider combining your meeting with a community event or meeting in order to have a core group already in attendance.
Plan your Town Hall Meeting to:
- achieve your purpose
- fit the audience you are targeting
