Greater Waterville Communities for Children & Youth Prevention Coalition</font></b></p> Survey

Parent Survey

Greater Waterville Communities for Children & Youth Prevention Coalition

1. Please indicate your level of agreement with the

following statements:

2. How much do you think underage youth risk harming

themselves (physically or in other ways) if they:

	Very harmful	Somewhat harmful	Not harmful
Have one or two drinks of an alcoholic beverage once or twice a week?

Have one or two drinks of an alcoholic beverage nearly every day?

Have five or more drinks of an alcoholic beverage in a row once or twice a week?

	Yes	No
3. Does your family have clear rules around alcohol and drug use?

4. Do children under the age of 18 in your home have a curfew (guidelines about how late they can stay out)?

5. Do you know parents/adults who host parties where alcohol is available or served to underage youth?

	Yes	No	Sometimes
6. Do you have alcohol in your home?

6a. When you have alcohol in your home, do you... (Please check all that apply)

Keep it locked or in a place where underage youth can't get at it?

Keep track of it to make sure your underage youth haven't taken any?

Instruct your underage youth not to take any?

Take no special action?

Other (Please describe):

	Never	Once	A few times	Routinely
7. How often have you talked with your underage youth about attending parties where alcohol was available or being served to people under 21? (Please check only one)

11. In your opinion, how do youth under the age of 21 obtain alcohol?

From their parents' home

From liquor stores

Using false or altered identification

Asking an adult stranger to buy for them

Asking a friend/sibling older than 21 to buy for them

Stealing alcoholic beverages

Other (Please explain):

Thank you very much for your time and attention to these important issues.

	Strongly Agree	Agree	Disagree	Strongly Disagree
It is important to consistently enforce a curfew for youth under the age of 18.

Parents can have a strong influence on their child's decision to use alcohol.

There is too much alcohol advertising in stores in my community.

Alcohol advertising influences a young person's decision to drink.
	Strongly Agree	Agree	Disagree	Strongly Disagree
It is okay for youth under the age of 21 to drink at parties if they don't drive.

It is okay for youth under the age of 21 to drink at parties if they don't get drunk.

Drinking alcohol is never a good thing to do for anyone at any age.

Drinking alcohol in moderation is alright for adults, but never for people under 21.
	Strongly Agree	Agree	Disagree	Strongly Disagree
Occasional underage drinking is okay if it dosen't interfere with schoolwork or other responsibilities.

Underage drinking is just part of growing up.

It is easy for underage persons to obtain alcohol.

It is wrong for adults to provide alcohol to youth under the age of 21.

I am concerned about underage drinking in my community.

	Very Likely	Somewhat likely	Unlikely	Never
8. If you knew that your underage youth was going to a party where alcohol might be available or served, how likely would you be to let them go?

9. How likely do you think other parents would be to let their underage youth go to a party where alcohol might be available or served?

10. If a parent in your community provided alcohol to underage youth, how likely is it that s/he would get caught by the police?