A Program for Prevention Agencies to Reduce Underage Sales

描述(申请人提供)：“预防机构减少未成年人买卖的计划。”负责任零售论坛(RRF)开发了一种新模式，在试点研究中显示出巨大的前景，作为改善身份检查和拒绝向未成年人销售或供应烟酒产品的一种方式。该模式纳入了2002年作为预防药物滥用中心联邦指导文件编写的《负责任零售最佳做法报告》中所载的建议，采用了一种质量改进的方法来帮助零售商改进年龄核查。RRF试图调整这一模式，使其能够被预防机构和联盟所采用。来自布兰代斯大学、预防研究中心和波士顿大学的研究人员将与宾夕法尼亚州和马里兰州的RRF、州物质滥用办公室和州酒精监管机构合作：(1)对参与州的预防机构和联盟工作人员进行书面调查，以确定具有态度、能力和准备与零售商开展负责任零售计划的组织(2)与预防机构和联盟工作人员、州物质滥用和酒精监管机构官员以及RRF研究人员举行峰会，以检查潜在的RR材料，预防机构或联盟实施RR援助模式的实施战略和技术援助需求(3)在每个州选择两个预防机构/联盟，协助他们实施RRF零售商援助模式，并进行描述性分析，以确定有效招募许可证获得者的促进者和障碍。这项关于预防机构/联盟实施的零售商援助计划的技术和商业可行性的研究将导致第二阶段的研究，以验证预防机构和联盟在吸引零售商以及改善酒类和烟草的年龄核实和销售拒绝方面的有效性。与公共健康相关：“预防机构减少未成年人销售的计划”，该项目将采用2002年提交给药物滥用预防中心的报告《负责任零售最佳实践报告》的模型，以便预防机构和联盟能够实施该计划，为零售商减少未成年人酒类和烟草产品的销售提供帮助。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): "A Program for Prevention Agencies to Reduce Underage Sales." The Responsible Retailing Forum ("RRF") has developed a new model that has shown significant promise in pilot studies as a way of improving ID- checking and refusal to sell or serve alcohol and tobacco products to minors. The model, which incorporates the recommendations contained in the Report on Best Practices for Responsible Retailing, prepared as a federal guidance document for the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention in 2002, employs a quality improvement approach to assist retailers improve age-verification. RRF seeks to adapt this model so that it can be employed by prevention agencies and coalitions. Researchers from Brandeis University, the Prevention Research Center and Boston University will partner with RRF and the state substance abuse office and state alcohol regulator in Pennsylvania and Maryland to: (1) Administer written surveys to prevention agency and coalition staff in the participating states to identify organizations with attitudes, capacity and readiness to conduct Responsible Retailing programs with retailers (2) Conduct a summit meeting with prevention agency and coalition staff, state substance abuse and alcohol regulator officials and RRF researchers in each of the two states to examine potential RR materials, implementation strategies and technical assistance needs for a prevention agency or coalition implementation of the RR assistance model (3) Select two prevention agencies/coalitions in each state and assist them to implement the RRF retailer assistance model and conduct a descriptive analysis that identifies facilitators and barriers to effective recruitment of licensees into the program. This research on the technical and commercial feasibility of a retailer assistance program implemented by prevention agencies/coalitions will lead to a Phase II study to validate the effectiveness of prevention agencies and coalitions in engaging retailers and in improving age-verification and sales refusal for alcohol and tobacco. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: "A Program for Prevention Agencies to Reduce Underage Sales," This project will adapt a model derived from a 2002 report to the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Report on Best Practices for Responsible Retailing, so that it can be implemented by prevention agencies and coalitions to provide assistance to retailers in reducing underage sales of alcohol and tobacco products.