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ICJI > Substance Abuse Services Division > Indiana Point Of Youth > Point Of Youth Vision Point Of Youth Vision

Keg Tracking
With hard work and dedication, keg tracking passed into law with efforts from POY and the Indiana Coalition to Reduce Underage Drinking (ICRUD). The law requires every keg sold in the state of Indiana to have a label attached, making it easy to track both the purchaser and seller of each keg. The purchaser must sign a receipt of sale, which the seller is required to keep on file. The law will take effect on July 1, 2003. Our POY students testified at the committee hearing on keg tracking, and many students wrote letters to the editor about keg tracking as well as a tax increase on alcoholic beverages.

Tobacco Tax Increase
Tobacco’s toll in Indiana is devastating - 31.6 percent of youths currently smoke, and 20,500 more kids become regular, daily smokers every year, one-third of who will die prematurely. POY campaigned to increase the cigarette tax from 15.5 cents to 55.5 cents per pack. POY members saw this as in opportunity to help prevent youth from starting to use tobacco and reduce the number of youth smokers.

Indiana will also become a healthier state because of the cigarette tax increase.

We can expect that 43,000 Indiana youth will not become smokers-that’s equivalent to filling Conseco Fieldhouse more than twice!

Other benefits include saving 20,000 Hoosier from smoking-related deaths and produce $760 million dollars in long-term health-care savings - in addition to raising additional revenue to shore up the state budget.

Alcohol Compliance Checks
With funding from the Institute’s Enforcement of Underage Drinking Laws (EUDL) grant and the Governor’s Council on Impaired & Dangerous Driving, ICRUD trained youth and local law enforcement on the proper way to conduct alcohol compliance checks. Several communities have started conducting the alcohol compliance checks. POY students are actively involved in conducting the checks.

Orange Ribbon Campaign
The mission of the Orange Ribbon Campaign is to use education and media outreach to make the orange ribbon the recognized symbol in changing public policy regarding underage drinking. The goal of the Orange Ribbon Campaign is to educate people about the problem of underage drinking and to mobilize people to advocate for a change to public policies that will reduce underage drinking.

This campaign, supported by POY, helps the Indiana Coalition to Reduce Underage Drinking promote the prevention of underage drinking and underage impaired driving. POY students are instrumental in making the campaign a success.

The Reality Check Tour
The purpose of the "tour" was to conduct community forums involving student panels while speaking to parents and other adults about the realities of underage drinking. These forums were held in several communities around Indiana. The forums were funded by the Institute’s EUDL grant. POY students helped to recruit community members for the forums and were on the student panels.

Tobacco Vendor Workshops
The Governor’s Commission for a Drug-Free Indiana, Excise Police and the Division of Mental Health and Addiction sponsored the Tobacco Vendor Workshops. These workshops educated vendors about the penalties for the sale of tobacco products to youth and the guidelines for tobacco retailers.

POY students along with Local Coordinating Councils promoted the workshops to local vendors by distributing flyers. They also spoke to vendors about the problem of underage smoking and the availability of tobacco products to youth.

POY Retreat
The Indiana Point of Youth holds a retreat each year after the new members have been chosen. This retreat also helps the youth understand the different divisions of the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute.

The current POY class completed their retreat on July 13. As a group, POY decided to broaden their scope of youth related problems and chose to include, for the first time in POY history, subcommittees on juvenile awareness and victims issues.

Subcommittees and their respective goals for the 2002-2003 POY year are as follows: Substance Abuse -increase awareness of over-the-counter drug abuse, tobacco issues and increase enforcement and education of methamphetamine.

Awareness/Marketing - develop website and quarterly newsletter to promote POY Juvenile Awareness - increase awareness of juveniles’ rights and school safety issues as well as inform policymakers on changes to Indiana’s juvenile code.

Underage Drinking/DUI - advocate for an increase in alcohol tax and tougher penalties for DUI offences.

Voice of victims - increase awareness of victim’s issues among youth including date rape and dating violence.