Underage Drinking Prevention

The NWDA's first-ever Youth Conference on Preventing Underage Drinking, held April 12, 2012 at Greenfield Community College, was a great success. 

Following a lively, interactive presentation by Robert Hackenson on the danger and consequences of underage drinking, some 150 or more students in attendance broke into one of four workshops where they learned to produce their own video public service announcements, created materials modeled on the national Above the Influence campaign, learned from their peers how to form a Students Against Destructive Decisions group and produced their own skits with help from the UMass Not Ready for Bedtime Players.

You can watch a short Greenfield Community Television-produced video explainer about the day here, a WWLP Channel 22 news story here and a WGGB Channel 40 video here (scroll down to find video).

Photos of the school groups that attended below:

Amherst Regional High School

Easthampton SADD presenters

Easthampton High School

Granby Junior-Senior High School

Hopkins Academy

Mahar Regional

Northampton

Pioneer Valley

Smith Academy

South Hadley High School

Williston Academy

Ware Junior-Senior High School