GOT stands for Get Out
There. This new effort is part of the
Louisiana Office for Addictive Disorders Youth
Leadership Program. GOT begins with a unique
training to teach youth and adults the latest and
best strategies to reduce underage drinking and
other drug use in Louisiana. It continues with teams
of youth and adults from communities across the
state working in their cities and parishes to
implement these strategies to promote effective,
research-based prevention approaches.
In 2006, the Louisiana Office for Addictive
Disorders held a series of forums across Louisiana
to determine the best method of youth leadership
programs for Louisiana. With information gathered
from the forums and lessons learned from the
National Academies of Science Report to Congress on
Underage Drinking, the Louisiana Get Out There
Training was established along with a new youth
committee of students from across Louisiana called
the Y'ALL Team: Youth Advocacy Leaders of Louisiana.
GOT is coordinated by
Louisiana Youth Prevention Services,
Louisiana SADD, and
Prevention With PRIDE.
- Train youth on skills required to educate,
motivate, mobilize, and act on issues such as
alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
- Provide youth with lifelong skills needed to
create positive change on any public health,
safety, or social change issue.
- Train adults on how to support, guide, and
assist youth.
- The desired short term outcome is groups of
youth working with adults to encourage positive
change in their communities using proven,
research based strategies that focus on changing
the environment, thus impacting a large group of
people with each effort. The desired long-term
outcomes are as follows: 1. A reduction in ATOD
use by youth and adults in Louisiana.
- Policies, laws, and enforcement that reduce
underage drinking, irresponsible drinking by
adults, and drug use.
- A change in attitude about underage drinking
in Louisiana to where citizens of the state
clearly oppose underage drinking and work to
prevent youth access and consumption of alcohol.
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