Youth Alcohol Prevention

Youth Alcohol Awareness Grant program

The purpose of this AMA Alliance program is to provide seed money for community-based projects that help to reduce underage drinking and its health and social consequences. Thanks to AMA Past President J. Edward Hill, MD, this grant program is supported by a donation from The Smithers Foundation.  

The grant program is designed to encourage grass roots activity that helps restrict youth access to alcohol and alcohol advertising and encourage enforcement of existing laws.

Goals

1: Educate local elected officials, members of a community organization or general public about the health and social consequences of underage drinking and the need to change community standards that accept some level of underage drinking.

2: Gain community member and community leader/elected official support for changing community standards by instituting environmental changes at the regulatory or legislative level.

Grant requirements

1. Grant applications should include: cover page, program description, activity timeline and preliminary budget.
2. Grants should seek to show progress toward both of the goals set forth above.
3. All grant must focus on activities with a long-term goal of policy change if possible. Grant funds cannot be used solely for educational purposes. For example, you can not use funds to print a brochure and pass it out to students or conduct a school assembly on the dangers of underage drinking. Activities funded for the grant must connect to a policy initiative.
4. Grant funds may not be used to provide group or individual tobacco cessation programs, underage drinking “say no” prevention programs or curricular activities within public schools.
5. All activities planned must include advocacy strategies, such as a petition drive, public or legislative resolution or a message to the public about the need for environmental policies to reduce underage drinking and its health and social consequences.

Due date

January 1

Award amount

$1000

Criteria

1. Grants may not pay for personnel salaries, benefits or other overhead expenses or equipment but may cover stipends to youth workers or transportation/food costs.
2. Applicants can not accept funding from any tobacco or alcohol company, its subsidiaries or distributors.
3. AMA and AMA Alliance staff will provide technical assistance in planning and implementing project activities.
4. AMA Alliance members or staff will monitor funded events.
5. Maintain current AMA Alliance membership.
6. All educational, promotional and/or media products produced and/or purchased with grant funds must be approved prior to the funded event or activities.

Questions?  

Contact us at amaa@ama-assn.org

Youth Alcohol Awareness Grant Application

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