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\"\"\u201cIn July of 2018, the Maui Coalition for Drug-Free Youth conducted a community assessment to identify local community conditions that were happening around underage drinking,\u201d said Coalition Director, rick collins<\/strong>.\u00a0 \u201cAccording to a study done by the Hawaii State Department of Education and the Hawaii State Department of Health, Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Division, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Maui County youth consume more alcohol and binge drink at higher rates compared to other counties and in Hawaii, as a whole. In fact 56% of Maui youth reported ever drinking alcohol, compared to a statewide average of 50% and 31% of Maui youth reported currently drinking, compared to a statewide average of 25%. We did that for a number of months, almost for a year and a half.\u00a0 It was almost like finding pieces of a puzzle.\u00a0 For example, we looked for data on parent perspectives of parties, what underage drinking looks like, what the most common places where high risk behaviors were occurring, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur research, in coordination with law enforcement efforts, and using surveys and listening sessions, showed that house parties and the home setting was where a lot of young people obtained their alcohol and were drinking,\u201d said Community Coordinator, Andrea Snow.<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cAccording to the Hawaii State Department of Health Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 38% of Maui high school students usually obtained the alcohol they drank by someone giving it to them. An anonymous survey of 449 Maui County youth conducted in 2018-2019 revealed that many have suffered, or know a peer who suffered, major consequences from underage drinking at house parties, including fighting, arrest, driving under the influence, alcohol poisoning and sexual assault. Youth surveyed reported that drinking most often occurred in private residences. Of the youth who attend house parties, 73.7% report that underage binge drinking occurs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did a parent survey that included over 100 parents, asking them about their attitudes and perceptions towards house parties,\u201d said Collins.\u00a0 \u201cWhat was interesting was that while parents stated that they didn\u2019t want someone telling them how to parent their kids, people have this general value of \u2018well if I want to allow my kid to drink I want to parent them the way I want to, and not have some other parent having control of it\u2019, so hosting house parties in their eyes were the reasonable and appropriate thing to do. It was from this data and discussions with parents and community members that we decided on the need for a social host ordinance.\u201d<\/p>\n

A social host ordinance is a local law that prevents underage drinking and related consequences by holding the host of a gathering accountable for illegal underage drinking occurring at their homes or on their property. Similar to how a speeding ticket deters people from driving irresponsibly fast, a social host ordinance deters people from allowing or ignoring underage drinking.<\/p>\n

\u201cSocial and economic justice is vital to our community,\u201d said Snow, \u201ctherefore the Maui County social host ordinance was written as a civil ordinance with low, tiered fines and a free appeals process. Prevention science best-practice also recommends civil ordinances over criminal ordinances because they are more likely to be enforced.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor Maui County, a local social host ordinance would not only improve the public health and safety of the entire community but would especially improve the lives of our youth. There would be less underage drinking at house parties, which would equate to fewer incidents of teen sexual assaults, fights, drunk driving, alcohol-related ER visits, and arrests. It would ultimately save the lives of our young people.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, from then,\u201d said Collins, \u201cwhat we did was we developed 10 Policy Action Steps on how we can organize our coalition internally to be best prepared for success. This was our first time doing something of this scale, in terms of introducing a policy.\u00a0 We had been reactive in the past to existing policies, but never actually created one ourselves.\u00a0 We used the 10 Policy Action Steps to organize our coalition and use them almost as work committees. They would meet, create an action policy statement, disband and then we would move onto the next step. This was a way to show us our progress.\u00a0 Passing policy usually takes years, but by implementing these stages, we were able to track how things were moving along.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOne thing that we want to highlight is that we used a diverse set of data when identifying the need for social host ordinances,\u201d said Snow. The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) showed us that the majority of youth that drink obtained their alcohol from social sources.\u00a0 That was a big finding because there have been a lot of efforts, like sticker-shock campaigns, that focused on the retail environment, but the rate of underage drinking had not gone down in a long time, even with these efforts.\u00a0 So we took a look at other risk factors, and youth obtaining their alcohol from social sources really reinforced our efforts and commitment and led us to creating our local surveys and focus groups.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur work on this policy started well before the COVID-19 pandemic halted and affected the nation\u2019s daily activities. We are currently doing another community assessment this summer to see how things have changed. When the pandemic started, everything was halted, but communities were also told to create their own personal bubbles of people who they were in constant contact with.\u00a0 This was especially applicable to families with children.\u00a0 There were few families who could completely isolate, thus house parties and gatherings were still occurring.\u00a0 Also, even though COVID definitely changed things, people saw the light at the end of the tunnel.\u00a0 They knew things would come back to normal eventually, especially in Hawaii. Gatherings are a norm and what you do all the time. That sense of community and coming together is a vital part of the culture here, so we knew house parties were going to be an issue post-COVID.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the main message to coalitions looking to introduce policy in their communities is \u2018don\u2019t take no for an answer,\u2019\u201d said Collins.\u00a0 \u201cThere are going to be a lot of hurdles along the way.\u00a0 The first thing we did was learn the subject matter we were aiming to get passed and then also research the best practices for getting buy-in on it.\u00a0 We ran into a lot of \u2018no\u2019 along the way, and as coalitions members we are usually overly nice and tend to take a no as the final answer.\u00a0 We were not going to be deterred by this because we knew the community needed it and it was going to save lives.\u00a0 You must be persistent because the end goal is going to make the community better.\u00a0 Knowing that our communities will eventually return to some version of normal, it was critical to have this policy in place because it\u2019s a great preventative step.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe used the data we had in hand to build community support,\u201d said Snow.\u00a0 \u201cOne of the big lessons learned from our side was how long it takes to gather the data and have all the community conversations necessary to build support and buy-in to pass a policy that was the first of its kind in the state of Hawaii.\u00a0 Engaging the different community sectors was critical to getting this passed.\u00a0 The culture, history and values of the Maui community were a critical factor because the idea of family is so sacred and you don\u2019t tell people how to parent, so in order to overcome that barrier we had to have these really extensive conversations and build these relationships that folks needed to trust us before they would even listen.\u00a0 The speed of trust was absolutely key, and we had to build many new relationships because there were parts of this ordinance that people just did not think would work.\u00a0 The relationship building was key. The lifespan of this entire initiative, from gathering data to passage was around 30-32 months.\u00a0 Our next and final stage will be the evaluation piece, where we will be able to see how effective and impactful this policy was.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes when coalitions have a good idea,\u201d said Collins, \u201cthey tend to lead with the solution before they raise awareness of the problem and don\u2019t spend the time to become the local experts in the community about it.\u00a0 While we were collecting the data in our community we were also becoming educated on the issue and what was needed to have this policy adopted.\u00a0 Knowing the policy before ever going public is key, so we didn\u2019t present this idea until we knew everything that came with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing able to convey the idea that we are all on the same team was critical in our work and success in getting this passed,\u201d said Snow.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re not saying policy over education, we need both in order to make a big difference.\u00a0 Another thing as well was that we had a lot of capacity at our fingertips.\u00a0 Coming together as a coalition brought forth a lot of momentum as we looked to bring this to the community. That helped us that even as we encountered things that were unexpected, our diverse skillset and team really allowed us to succeed. We are really excited at the opportunity to share our story and are looking forward to the impact it makes in addressing alcohol misuse by youth in Maui.”<\/p>\n

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