A Program for Prevention Agencies to Reduce Underage Sales

描述（由申请人提供）：“预防机构减少未成年人销售的计划。”负责任零售论坛（“RRF”）开发了一种新模式，作为一种改进身份核查和拒绝向未成年人出售或提供烟酒产品的方式，该模式在试点研究中显示出巨大的希望。该模型采用了2002年为防止药物滥用中心准备的联邦指导文件《负责任零售业最佳实践报告》中的建议，采用了质量改进方法来帮助零售商改进年龄验证。RRF试图调整这一模式，使其能够被预防机构和联盟所采用。来自布兰迪斯大学、预防研究中心和波士顿大学的研究人员将与RRF、宾夕法尼亚州和马里兰州的国家药物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，以确定有态度、能力和准备与零售商一起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、各州药物滥用和酒精监管官员以及两个州的RRF研究人员举行首脑会议，以审查潜在的RR材料；(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，确定有效招募许可人加入该计划的促进因素和障碍。这项关于由预防机构/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和改进年龄验证和拒绝销售烟酒方面的有效性。公共卫生相关：“预防机构减少未成年人销售方案”。该项目将采用2002年向预防药物滥用中心提交的报告《负责任的零售最佳做法报告》中的模式，以便预防机构和联盟能够实施该方案，帮助零售商减少向未成年人销售烟酒产品。

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.