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Prom season is here. A group of prevention coalitions has developed a public awareness campaign that encourages safe and substance-free prom events, and is offering this campaign for your use in the hope that it supports your community’s ongoing prevention efforts.

Prom Perfect (PP) was developed by Beaverton Together!, Helping Empower Youth Together! (HEY!), Oregon Partnership, Tigard Turns the Tide and Washington County. These organizations currently are rolling out the campaign in the Portland metro area, and have developed the enclosed packet of information and materials for your consideration.

Prom Perfect, which is part of the state’s Face it, Parents underage drinking prevention campaign, has several components. Overall, Prom Perfect is about reaching the entire community involved in proms. This includes businesses that sell/rent to youth, schools that host the events, parents whose children attend and, of course, students themselves. However, the primary audience is parents. The campaign’s call to action encourages parents to text their teens on prom night. The desired outcome is curbing alcohol-related incidences – MIPs, social hosting violations and school infractions, among them – on prom night.

The campaign materials were tested last year in Washington County and have been updated based on feedback from parent and youth focus groups.

The campaign materials contained in this packet include:

• Posters for parents, teens and businesses - included is a poster in Spanish for parents

• Business card-sized information cards, clothes hangers, vendor window decals, and table and counter “tents” for businesses

• A sample “safe prom” article for use in school newsletters and other publications for parents

• Campaign evaluation tools

• A list of participating coalitions and businesses, to date

Click here to download the Prom Perfect Packet.

The enclosed materials include Prom Perfect, Face it, Parents, state Department of Human Services and Oregon Partnership logos, and are available at no cost. If you are interested in customized materials that feature, for example, your local prevention group’s logo or contact information, we are happy to print those at OP. We would charge only for the cost of paper, and we’d welcome the opportunity to provide an estimate.

You no doubt have multiple prevention efforts underway, and we hope that this campaign serves as an additional resource for you.

If you have questions, or would like additional information about Prom Perfect, please contact: Emily Moser, Director of Parenting Programs, Oregon Partnership – emoser@orpartnership.org – 971 244-1365

Thank you for all of your efforts in support of prevention education!