Making healthy choices
- Healthy alternatives to alcohol use
- How can setting goals around things like sports, school and volunteering help you to make healthy choices
- Keeping balance in your life
- Resisting peer pressure to use substances or gamble
Knowing the risks
- What are the risks for youth with alcohol use
- Risks of driving when under the influence
- Dangers of alcohol use
- The dangers of not knowing what you’re drinking
- Facts about alcohol use
- Risks of alcohol use and Mental Health
Staying safe
- What is Harm Reduction?
- How to stay safe at parties where there might be alcohol use
- How to reduce harms associated with alcohol use and stay safe
Getting help
- How to help a friend who has a problem with alcohol use
- Where youth can turn to for help when alcohol use has gone too far
- People youth can talk to
- How do I know when my alcohol use has gone too far
- Signs of an alcohol use problem
- What you can do if affected by a family member’s alcohol use
- When times get tough, talking (to an AFM counsellor) can help
- Youth Should Know what AFM Youth Services can do for them
- How AFM can help
Public perceptions
- Unhealthy messages in the media about alcohol use
- Stigma around problematic alcohol use and how we can turn that around – it is a sign of strength, not weakness to ask for help