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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Your Help Needed for Pilot Project


How much of a problem is underage drinking in Marshall County? Please fill out a brief survey, available here, and send to frnpr@comcast.net or Marshall County FRN, 324 7th St., Moundsville, WV 26041. Your responses will be used to help guide a pilot project between the Marshall County Anti-Drug Coalition and the West Virginia Center for Civic Life.

Interview Guide

Underage Drinking in Marshall County

I am part of a team of local citizens working to gather information from Marshall County residents about problems related to underage drinking. We want to capture the public’s concerns about this issue, and we would like to include your views. Community forums on this issue will be held throughout Marshall County later in the fall. We hope you will attend. (Please use space below and the reverse side to record responses.)

1. Are you concerned about underage drinking in Marshall County? If so, what concerns you most? What do you think concerns others in your community?

2. What are the main challenges we face in dealing with this problem?

3. What could be done to prevent underage drinking? Who should be involved?

4. What could be done to help those who have developed habits of underage drinking?

Who could do it?

5. What aspect of this issue does the public most need to come together to talk about?

  1. What other thoughts about underage drinking would you like to offer?

Community forums on this issue will be held in several locations in the coming months. Please provide a way to contact you if you would like to be notified about the upcoming forums.

Name Email or other preferred contact information

Please circle all of the responses that apply:

Female Male

African-American Hispanic-American Asian-American European-American (White) Other

Under 18 18-29 30-49 50-64 65 and over

Occupation ___________________Town/Community________________________Zip code________



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