ATOD Prevention InternAt — North Coastal Prevention Coalition

Position Description 

Support North Coastal Prevention Coalition's efforts to prevent underage drinking and providing alcohol to minors.

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

• Goal 1: Increase partnership and collaboration with young adults in reducing underage drinking
• Sub-committee 1/Objective 1: recruitment of 18-25 year olds, who are interested in ATOD prevention policy and advocacy
• Task: conduct outreach in areas highly populated with youth (i.e. campuses, youth centers etc.)
• Task: plan, schedule and implement underage drinking town halls/forums
• Task: provide feedback and suggestions to implementing community-level underage drinking prevention strategies

• Goal 2: Decrease alcohol use among youth ages 12-17 by decreasing youth access to alcohol from social sources
• Sub-committee 2/Objective 2: Amend Oceanside’s Social Host Ordinance to include civil/administrative penalties and increase enforcement of the social host ordinance by 20%.
• Task: Develop advocacy campaign to amend Oceanside social host ordinance and increase enforcement 
• Sub-task: develop issue brief for policy makers
• Sub-task: Develop fact sheets to enlist public support
• Sub-task: Gather support through signature campaign, postcards, letters, etc
• Sub-task: Attend city council meetings in support of policy change
• Sub-task: Identify 5 opportunities to present and present about SHO and policy efforts on campus to raise awareness’
• Sub-committee 3/Objective 3: Implement a media campaign designed to increase young adults’ perception of risk in providing alcohol to minors by 20%, as measured by a pre-post public intercept survey.
• Task: Distribute and collect 200-300 surveys from young adults about underage drinking prevention. 
• Task: Create and test social media prevention messages

Desired Qualifications 

MPH student only

Length of position: 180 hours minimum

Hours per week 6-20

Is this a paid opportunity? No

Application Instructions

Contact Prevention Specialist Lauren Pallasigui for more information on how to apply.