Rusk County, WI "Yes We Can" Campaign

Rusk County, a rural area in northern Wisconsin is putting prevention and innovation together to promote health and wellness. Part of that project is to help deter underage drinking. Focus groups and surveys from community members offered insight to beliefs about teenage drinking. High school students and community members helped bring the results to life by creating this movie production. Medical information about the effects of alcohol on the adolescent brain offers education to the entire county.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• RCYC Yes We Can
• Rusk County Youth Coalition
• Rusk County
• Wisconsin
• underage drinking
• substance abuse prevention
• taproot
• Inc. Flambeau High School

[shakedownstreet48]

It's been that way forever and it will always be that way.

[lightcrusader2]

Just wait......and see. Young people today are media savy and very aware of health and wellness.

[shakedownstreet48]

You leave nothing for these kids to do, and i mean nothing. The parents and the people who run this so called town are to blame. The same as when i grew up here, the only differnce is we were taught that we could think on our own, the high school today is nothing but a prison that you call a school, they don't have childhoods because you parents have taken that from them with your paranoia..

[mailforward4me]

There was always beer in our refrigerator, and if I helped him weed the garden on a hot Summer day, Dad would let me split one with him.

As soon as I turned 18 though, other kids were asking me to buy them beer, and inviting me to beer parties....It sounded stupid to drink beer in a Gravel Pit, hiding from the police, when I could do it at home, sitting in my favorite Lay-Z-boy chair

If Alcohol were not the "forbidden fruit" teens would not be so attracted to it...... Make it NO BIG DEAL !!

[mailforward4me]

@shakedownstreet48

I grew up there in the 60's & 70's.... and thought it was a nice place..... I never lacked for things to do (Camping, Canoeing, Skating, Skiing, and riding bike) plus all the yard work Mom & Dad gave me to do. Mowing 1.5 acres (with a push mower) TWICE a week, keeps a kid out of trouble....

[DrunkImSo]

This is a major waste of tax money. The focus of our adult leaders should not be to stop drinking, but instead they should try to discourage drinking and driving. A house party is harmless if you stay at the house. The real problem is driving. I go out and drink with my friends, I sleep there, I wake up, and I am fine. My parents know I drink and they've seen this video. They said the free brats were good (Flambeau kids understand lol) But in all sincerity kids don't like getting preached to.

[ka0eze1]

Well done.