Tips for Parents this St. Patrick’s Day. Let’s encourage change and starting the conversation. Keep reading for useful tips and questions to ask yourself as a parent and tips for talking to your teen about alcohol. St Patrick’s Day, celebrated…
Category: Education
Our New Tool – Why We Have it & How it Works
This week we have launched our new Standard Drinks Calculator. The use of the calculator is for people to quickly calculate what a standard drink is based on the Alcohol by Volume (ABV) percentage and millilitres of alcohol they are…
Lessons on ‘consent’ are a valuable addition to RSE and alcohol education for Junior Cycle students
Drinkaware welcomes the announcement of the planned updates to the RSE curriculum, which will include lessons on consent and gender stereotyping. Since its inception Drinkaware’s work in education has focused on a student-led approach, dealing with issues that students feel…
National Framework for children and young people’s participation in decision making.
As the national independent charity working to prevent and reduce alcohol misuse and delay the age of first drink, Drinkaware welcomes the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration & Youth’s recently launched National Framework for children and young people’s participation in…
Why Junior Cycle School Alcohol Education matters!
Why does Junior Cycle School Alcohol Education matter? The Department of Education sees its mission as, “To facilitate children and young people, through learning, to achieve their full potential and contribute to Ireland’s social, economic and cultural development.”1 Underage drinking acts as…
Guest Blog: Bernardine Ryan shares her experience delivering the Junior Cycle Alcohol Education Programme
After completing the three-year alcohol education programme in Our Lady’s College, there is a noticeable difference in attitude to alcohol and underage drinking. The facts and figures relating to misuse among teenagers were frightening and sobering, to say the least. The information and resources led to a more…
Parenting Teens-A Call to Action
3 minute read. The impact of your relationship with your teen/child lasts a lifetime. The quality of your relationship and connection with your teen is important to their development and the decisions they make. A warm, loving relationship and being…
The crucial role of parents in shaping their children’s attitudes to and use of alcohol
4 minute read. A recurring theme identified in the story of the Maynooth Evaluation of the JC-AEP (and not necessarily something that the research team set out to examine), is that of parents’ and guardians’ role in underage drinking in Ireland. There is a potential role for…
A teacher’s thoughts on the Junior Cycle Alcohol Education Programme; teacher training and Programme delivery
3 minute read. On a cold, dark November morning in 2018, my colleague and I set off from Waterford at the crack of dawn to drive to Athlone. Our mission: to train in the Drinkaware Education Programme. We are both…