Sample Media Advisory
Underage Drinking Prevention: Town Hall Meetings
For Immediate Release
[Date]
[Name of your organization]
Contact: [Your organization]
[Spokesperson]
____________ (day)
____________ (evening)
____________ (email)
[Community] To Come Together for Town Hall Meeting on Underage Drinking
[Insert local statistic]
[Community name] in [City], [State], is one of hundreds of communities nationwide that will hold an Underage Drinking Prevention: Town Hall Meeting on [Date] to discuss and raise awareness about the issue of underage drinking. [Your organization], in collaboration with the Federal Government’s Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking, is sponsoring the event. Parents, teachers, officials, youth, and other community members will be educated about the impact that underage drinking has on the community, and they will develop possible ways to address this issue.
Among eighth graders, about 1 in 20 (5.4 percent) reported being drunk at least once in the past month. Nearly 1 out of every 7 10th graders (14.4 percent) and about 2 out of every 7 12th graders (27.6 percent) reported being drunk at least once in the last month.1
[Insert any additional local statistics]
| |
What:
When:
Where:
Who: |
Underage Drinking Prevention: Town Hall Meeting
[Date] at [Time]
[Address]
[Spokesperson]
[Title] |
After the meeting, [Guest spokesperson], [Community representative], and [Your organization’s representative] will be available for interviews.
###
1 National Institute on Drug Abuse. 2008. Monitoring the Future: National Results on Adolescent Drug Use—Overview of Key Findings. 2008 (electronic version). Retrieved from http://www.drugabuse.gov/PDF/overview2008.pdf (PDF - 971 KB).
Excerpted from the Community Briefing Prevention Toolkit: Town Hall Meetings
To view or print a PDF you need to download free Adobe Reader software.