City-wide alcohol awareness campaign to focus on children

A drive to identify the impact that alcohol has on children through personal experience, watching soaps and films or advertising launches this week.

Children will be invited to describe how alcohol affects their lives as part of a raft of initiatives during national Alcohol Awareness Week (18-22 October). This years' focus is on ‘alcohol and childhood'.

Brighton and Hove's  Children and Young People's Services are rolling out a ‘postcard project', which encourages children and young people across the city to write down or draw what alcohol means to them, whether this be from personal experience, watching TV and films, or being exposed to advertising.

Adults who use alcohol services will also be asked for their feedback about how alcohol affects children and young people, or how it affected them as a young person, either through personal experience or being exposed to messages about alcohol as they were growing up.

CRI's (Alcohol) Brief Intervention Service will be present at various venues across the city, including Brighton's train station on Thursday 21st October from 11 am to 7 pm.  Their stand will offer the public advice and support around alcohol, including making sense of ‘units', and promoting safer drinking. The team will be ‘showcasing' some of the feedback that will have been received on their stand, and offering the public an opportunity to have their say.