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  OJJDP established the Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center (UDETC) in 1999 to support its Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws program. The UDETC provides a variety of science-based, practical, effective training and technical assistance services to support, enhance, and build leadership capacity and increase state and local community effectiveness in their efforts to enforce underage drinking…

The 7th Annual National Leadership Conference was held in beautiful Baltimore, Maryland’s Inner Harbor on August 22-26, 2006. The conference highlighted underage drinking prevention efforts under the theme of “Charting the Course: Promoting Innovation through Action”.  Plenary sessions and workshops offered guidance for the new innovator and the more advanced practitioner on how to establish, maintain and strengthen linkages…

“Policies and Procedures Handbook for Law Enforcement and Volunteers” from Newport Police Department, Oregon “Standard Operating Procedure for MIP Party Dispersal – Law Enforcement” from Lincoln County, Oregon “Standard Operating Procedure for MIP Party Dispersal – Volunteer” from Lincoln County, Oregon “Teen Party Response” from Chapel Hill Police Department, North Carolina

Resource Materials (See resource lists in Training Center documents for more resource materials.) Limitations on Access to Alcohol: Enforcing the underage drinking laws program: A compendium of resources, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), 1999. Available from: National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Online version: http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/pubs/compendium99/contents.html Keeping alcohol away from underage youth: Policy…

Click on the following links to see what communities are doing as part of the OJJDP Enforcing the Underage Drinking Laws program:   2004 Georgia (February 2004) New Hampshire (February 2004) 2003 Massachusetts (January 15, 2003) California (July 30, 2003) Rhode Island(January 29, 2003) Georgia (August 13, 2003) Arizona (February 15, 2003) Colorado  (August 14,…

The Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center (UDETC) held another successful National Leadership Conference (NLC)! The 12th Annual National Leadership Conference “Building Community Futures with Blueprints for Success” was held at the Anaheim Marriott in Anaheim, California on August 18-20, 2010. The conference registered close to 1700 participants. The conference, held in conjunction with the National…