Health Promotion Project Plan: Alcohol Abuse Prevention in Youths

This project plan outlines a health promotion initiative designed to prevent alcohol abuse among Aboriginal youth. The executive summary highlights the dangers of underage alcoholism and its impact on overall development, academic performance, and well-being. The project aims to raise awareness through interactive activities, school-based interventions, and policy implementation. It involves students, teachers, and parents, as well as stakeholders like the government and local police. Objectives include disseminating awareness, implementing school-based strategies, and promoting alcohol cessation policies. The plan emphasizes the importance of education about the adverse health effects of alcohol and the availability of support strategies for rehabilitation. The project also includes methods such as capacity building and family intervention to ensure effective compliance with alcohol cessation guidelines and to foster healthy transitions to adulthood. The evaluation will include questionnaire analysis to assess the program's effectiveness. The project's health message is a call to action, emphasizing the choice between health and the dangers of alcohol abuse, supported by relevant references.

Health promotion project plan on the prevention of alcohol
abuse among youths of aboriginal community
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• Alcohol abuse is dangerous for adolescents and young
individuals as it affects their overall development and
holistic wellbeing (Clough et al., 2014).
• Underage alcoholism triggers issues such as suicides,
violence and poor academic performance (Clough et al.,
2017).
• The promotion program intends to disseminate
awareness among the aboriginal youth about alcohol
abuse.
BACKGROUND
• The period of adolescence and youth marks the phase of transition to
adulthood.
• Healthy diet and lifestyle pattern marks a healthy transition (d’Abbs,
2015)
• As per statistical estimates it has been found that alcohol consumption
in Australia is the highest among the Indigenous community members
with 17% comprising of individuals belonging to the age group of 14- 17
years (Alcohol Alert Number, 2019).
OBJECTIVES
The target audience for the promotion program would comprise of the
individuals aged 14 to 17 years belonging to the aboriginal community
(Australia’s Health, 2018). The primary objectives would comprise of the
following:
• Disseminate awareness through social media
• Implement school based strategies
• Include policies that promote alcohol cessation within the school
environment, sports environment and social environment
• Impart education about alcohol cessation and the negative implication
on health
• Promote education about available support strategies for rehabilitation
SECONDARY PREVENTION
• Setting rehabilitation camps and implementing school based interventions to
promote alcohol cessation
• Impart education about the adverse impact of alcohol abuse on physical health
HEALTH PROMOTION ACTIVITY
• Capacity building: Collaborating with youngsters in order to disseminate awareness
• Enforce preventive measures by imparting knowledge about the adverse impact of
alcohol (Calabria et al., 2014)
• Offer effective treatment and support to affected youth individuals
• Offer effective intervention to help individuals recover from addiction
• Ensure regulation of laws that prevent alcohol abuse
• Make use of family intervention to ensure better connection with family members
and cessation of alcohol abuse
EVALUATION
REFERENCES
Alcohol Alert Number 83. (2019). Retrieved from https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa83/aa83.htm
Australia's health 2018, Introduction- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2019). Retrieved from
https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/australias-health/australias-health-2018/contents/table-of-contents
Calabria, B., Clifford, A., Rose, M., & Shakeshaft, A. (2014). Tailoring a family-based alcohol intervention for Aboriginal Australians, and
the experiences and perceptions of health care providers trained in its delivery. BMC Public Health, 14(1). doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-
14-322
Clough, A., Margolis, S., Miller, A., Shakeshaft, A., Doran, C., & McDermott, R. et al. (2017). Alcohol management plans in Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) Australian communities in Queensland: community residents have experienced favourable
impacts but also suffered unfavourable ones. BMC Public Health, 17(1). doi: 10.1186/s12889-016-3995-8
d'Abbs, P. (2015). Widening the gap: The gulf between policy rhetoric and implementation reality in addressing alcohol problems
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Gray, D., Wilson, M., Allsop, S., Saggers, S., Wilkes, E., & Ober, C. (2014). Barriers and enablers to the provision of alcohol treatment
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• Conduct questionnaire analysis at the completion of the program
• Conduct interview sessions with the enrolled participants
• Analysing the overall report of the project
• Education and awareness would be disseminated by making use of interactive
activities against alcohol consumption
• Students, teachers as well as parents would be involved in the support programs
so as to ensure effective compliance with alcohol cessation guidelines
• Stakeholders involved would include the government so as to enforce laws against
alcohol abuse and limiting the selling and purchase of alcohol to the mentioned
age group.
• The local police would keep a check on drink and driving cases and publish
document in relation to accidents caused due to alcohol consumption so as to
disseminate awareness
• Adults would monitor changes among the target audience after enrolling in the
program
Health Message:
Live, Laugh, Love….Alcohol, Disease, Death…Choice is yours!
METHODS
CONCLUSION
Approaches which are based on evidences drawn from
various research studies should be used as the crucial tools
in the prevention of harmful effects of alcohol consumption.
Major steps are used as preventive measures to foster
alcohol cessation among youth.