Welcome to the Too Smart To Start National Resources Page!

The following Too Smart To Start materials are available for download:

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Too Smart To Start Implementation Guide    PDF    HTML
Provides strategies to raise awareness of underage alcohol use among parents and other adults in your community. Use this guide to help design your local Too Smart To Start initiative and to generate ideas on how to approach the many aspects of this work.

Smart Stats: A Data Book    PDF    HTML
Provides information, facts, and statistics about the Too Smart To Start youth and adult target audiences. Addresses knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of 9- to 13-year-olds about the harmful effects of alcohol, and of parents/caregivers about their children’s use and nonuse of alcohol. Use this information to help shape your initiative and address key areas of concern for parents and 9- to 13-year-olds.

Too Smart To Start Menu    PDF    HTML
Suggests activities, programs, and materials to stimulate thinking as communities create their own Too Smart To Start initiatives. Use the menu to complement existing underage alcohol use prevention efforts.

Silhouette Poster    PDF    HTML
Reminds adults that 9- to 13-year-olds have a distinct identity and worldview. Featuring the silhouettes of a boy and a girl covered with sentences, the poster reflects how 9- to 13-year-olds think and feel. Employers and health professionals can display this poster and help adults understand what 9- to 13-year-olds are really thinking.

Word Find Poster    PDF    HTML
Includes the most common harms of alcohol use, as defined by 9- to 13-year-olds. The poster raises awareness and reinforces perceptions of harm related to alcohol use. Youth can hang this poster in their bedrooms. Prevention practitioners may display it in halls, gymnasiums, locker rooms, restrooms, and foyers.

You're Smart Enough Poster    PDF    HTML
Encourages youth to converse with their parents/caregivers about alcohol. Youth service providers and prevention practitioners can hang this poster in areas where 9- to 13-year-olds gather.

Don't Guess... Ask! Poster - Male    PDF    HTML
Don't Guess... Ask! Poster – Female    PDF    HTML
Encourages parents/caregivers to converse with their children about alcohol. Health professionals and activity center managers can display this poster in their waiting rooms and parenting classroom areas. One poster displays a female adult with a female youth; the other depicts a male adult with a male youth.

You're Smart Enough Print Ad    PDF    HTML
Encourages 9- to 13-year-olds to talk with their parents/caregivers about alcohol. Places of workshop, activity centers, and schools may post this announcement in their newsletters for youth audiences.

Don't Guess... Ask! Print Ad – Male    PDF    HTML
Don't Guess... Ask! Print Ad – Female    PDF    HTML
Reminds parents to ask their children what they know about alcohol rather than guess. In male parent and female parent versions. Community and health newsletters and local newspapers may publish there PSAs.