Awareness

Conduct Your Own Alcohol Free Gets Me Campaign

As April approaches, it is time to start planning your Alcohol Awareness Month project. Conducting an Alcohol Free Gets Me campaign is a great project for your Youth Action Team! Here’s what you need to know in order to implement the campaign. Central Message and Goal...

Gwinnett Compliance Check Results by the Numbers

In response to a significant increase in underage drinking in Gwinnett County in 2002, GUIDE began utilizing the Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol (CMCA) model to reduce the number of youth consuming alcohol under age county-wide. GUIDE, working closely...

Myths and Realities of Underage Drinking

There are many common myths when it comes to underage drinking. For example, some youth and adults believe that drinking is a normal and harmless behavior for those under 21, particularly during the teen years. However, this is just not the case. This type of belief...

Save Brains: Four Reasons for Teens to Be Alcohol Free

At GUIDE, we are always striving to increase community involvement in one of our major initiatives, preventing and reducing underage drinking. We began focusing on this issue almost 20 years ago after seeing a substantial increase in teenage drinking within our...

DUI Checks Help Keep Our Roads Safe

Have you ever considered how checkpoints can help reduce and prevent underage drinking? Consider this: underage drinking cost Georgia citizens $1.2 billion in 2013. GUIDE is one of 41 providers working to reduce this very issue in Georgia. As such, one of our target...

4 Reasons & 20 Seconds: Marijuana Is More Harmful Than You Think

As you may know, today is 4/20 (April 20th), a day often recognized as a holiday centered around smoking marijuana. At GUIDE, we believe that recreational marijuana use is harmful to both individuals and the community. Still, there is a lot of hype about the drug and...