Group discussion project

You have been working at the Wayne County probation office for approximately 6 months now. Your supervisor has given you your 6-month employment evaluation, which was excellent. As a result, your supervisor has informed you that he is to choose one of the probation officers on his staff of 45 to be appointed to a committee on alcohol use and abuse. This committee is being put together by the County Board of Supervisors. Your supervisor asks you to be part of this committee, which you excitedly agree to do.

At your first committee meeting, the committee chair divides the 30 individuals into smaller subcommittees to explore specific areas of alcohol use and abuse. You are assigned to the prevention and treatment committee along with eight other individuals. The committee is made up professionals from various disciplines, including probation, parole, corrections, addiction, substance/alcohol abuse, social work, psychology, psychiatry, and pharmacology. The board of supervisors has asked that your committee focus solely on prevention issues relating to minors (not adults).

THREE STRATEGIES ARE:

Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.)

Alternatives to Alcohol Use

License Revocation for Alcohol-Related Offenses

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Group Portion

As a group, you must choose 3 prevention strategies that are effective with minors (children under the age of 18). For each prevention strategy addressed, you must state/explain/discuss the following:The definition of the prevention strategy and where you learned of itHow it is put into practiceWhat environment this prevention strategy is used inThe efficacy of the prevention strategyThe cost of the prevention strategyThe specific minor age group that it targetsCitations for each sentence that contains information from any source