Allison and Julia will cover the new underage drinking prevention campaign "Small Talks" from how this campaign came to be to what parents and caregivers need to know to start the conversations about underage drinking. We will discuss brain science as it relates to young brains, different approaches to when and how to talk with kids in your life and how your coalition or community group can build on this effort to adopt evidence-based policies and practices.

Guests: Allison Weber & Julia Sherman

Allison Weber is a Prevention Coordinator at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services in Madison, overseeing the Substance Abuse Block Grant (SABG) prevention set-aside. She has been involved in substance misuse prevention activities for over 15 years beginning in the frontline provider area in PA. She also was Director of Community Relations and Development at a large Latino non-profit in PA for many years. Weber served on numerous Boards of Directors and coalitions including the county Health Improvement Partnership and the local Federally Qualified Health Clinic (FQHC).

Julia Sherman coordinates the Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School.  In 2001, she began her work in alcohol policy at the American Medical Association’s Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse in Chicago and later served as the national Field Director for the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth.

In 2009 Sherman chaired the Alcohol, Culture and Environment Work Group of the Wisconsin State Council on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and authored its final report, Changing Wisconsin’s Alcohol Environment to Promote Safe and Healthy Lives.  In 2010, she became the first coordinator of the Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

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