Problem Areas Brainstorming Worksheet

Youth Substance Use Problem Areas	How Are These Problems Present in the Community?	Adverse Effects on the Community	Community Systems Affected by These Problems

Problem Areas Brainstorming Worksheet
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Youth Substance Use Problem Areas	How Are These Problems Present in the Community?	Adverse Effects on the Community	Community Systems Affected by These Problems
Underage drinking parties	Frequent parties are held at homes where large quantities of alcohol are consumed.	Teenagers are driving under the influence when they leave the parties; Neighbors feel like their neighborhoods are taken over by drunk teens; Alcohol-related fights and public drunkenness, etc.	Law enforcement: to break up the parties and arrest teens for alcohol-related violations; Emergency medical services: to attend to teens who have alcohol poisoning or have been injured while drinking.
Youth access to alcohol	Teenagers are able to buy alcohol without presenting identification at multiple off-premise alcohol outlets.	Teenagers are getting drunk and driving under the influence; Alcohol-related injuries from falls, fights, etc.	Law enforcement: to arrest teens for having alcohol and breaking up fights, etc.; Local hospital has to treat alcohol-related injuries and alcohol poisoning cases.
Raves with illicit drug use in nearby cities	The problem is not actually present in Danyaville, yet teens still access the parties by driving to Chicago.	Teens are making a long drive home from the city when they may have been using drugs at the raves; Potential for date rape.	Law enforcement in Chicago: to break up the parties; Law enforcement in Danyaville: to stop teens who are driving home; Social services: counseling for date rape.
Youth access to tobacco	Teens are smoking at school, and there have been a few incidents of cigarettes being shoplifted.	Environmental tobacco smoke; Upset storeowners.	Storeowners: lose revenue; School officials: to discipline the youth for smoking on school property.