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APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020

“Meet Us Where We Are”: The Co-Design of a Program to Reduce Harms from Youth Alcohol Use in Remote Central Australia

Virtual · June 2020

Poster Sessions · Clinical Science

  • Mikaela Cibich
    Flinders University
  • Timothy Carey
    University of Global Health Equity
  • Margaret Carey
    Flinders University

Abstract

Young residents of a remote central Australian town participated in focus group discussions to assist with the design of a locally-tailored alcohol harm-prevention program. Their recommendations centered on overcoming broken communication between young people and adults through working with, rather than against, peer influence.

Adolescent