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Puerto Rico Coalition Funded by RWJF National Program to Reduce Underage Drinking Through Coalitions

Published: Jul 31, 2007

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The Puerto Rico Coalition to Reduce Underage Drinking conducted activities throughout the island to reduce alcohol use among underage youth.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) provided more than $1.7 million for this project under its national program Reducing Underage Drinking Through Coalitions from December 1996 through June 2005 (for more information see Grant Results).

Key Results

Assisting in the implementation and evaluation of a "Code of Order" enacted in Old San Juan and 56 of the 78 municipalities. The Code of Order required the enforcement of existing drinking laws and increased the penalties for disregarding those laws.
Enactment of a law that reduced the blood alcohol content allowed from .10 to .08 in 1999, and enactment of zero tolerance of any alcohol level in underage youth in 2003.
A decrease in alcohol use in schools from 70 percent in 1998 to 56 percent in 2004, according to researchers at Central Caribbean University.

Funding
No RWJF funds were used to support lobbying activities. Other sources, including the Job Training Partnership Act, the Traffic Safety Commission and the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, contributed about $152,000 to support lobbying and other activities.

Additional readings
Grants

Evaluation of Reducing Underage Drinking Through Community and State Coalitions (Evaluations)
Public Opinion in Puerto Rico on Alcohol Control Policies (Journal articles)
Liability of Commercial and Social Hosts for Alcohol-Related Injuries: A National Survey of Accountability Norms and Judgments (Journal articles)
Effects of State Coalitions to Reduce Underage Drinking (Journal articles)
Reducing Youth Drinking (RWJF Anthology)
Reducing Underage Drinking Through Coalitions (Grant Results Reports)
Indiana Coalition Funded by RWJF National Program to Reduce Underage Drinking Through Coalitions (Grant Results Reports)
Pennsylvania Coalition Funded by RWJF National Program to Reduce Underage Drinking Through Coalitions (Grant Results Reports)
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Listed below are 2 of the grants that supported this project, totaling $1,745,117.

Grant	Awarded to	Amount
Reducing Underage Drinking Through Community and State Coalitions	Aspira Inc. of Puerto Rico (Rio Piedras, PR) ID#: 030822 Mary Jo Vazquez 787-276-4830 copram@coqui.net	Actual award: $945,117 January 1997 to June 2001
Reducing Underage Drinking Through Community and State Coalitions	Aspira Inc. of Puerto Rico (Rio Piedras, PR) ID#: 041116 Jose Malave 787-276-4830 coprampr@yahoo.com	Actual award: $800,000 January 2001 to June 2005

RWJF may have supported this project with other grants that are not listed.

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