Project STAT (Students Take Alcohol to Task)

Project STAT was a 4 year Federally funded Underage Drinking Prevention Education Project from the US Department of Education. This project engaged students from all high schools in Napa County in creating art messages that promote alcohol free choices. In addition to receiving curriculum designed to reduce alcohol use among young people and information on the latest brain research on the effects of alcohol on the adolescent brain, the project had an additional component that offered students the opportunity to become health advocates.

The research validated curriculum, Class Action, was implemented to assist in changing the social norms around alcohol use and help change negative peer pressure into positive peer pressure. Based on the social influence model, Class Action is a highly interactive curriculum that helps teens realize the real-world consequences of underage alcohol use.  Using casebooks and audio CD’s, students are divided into legal teams to prepare and present hypothetical civil cases in which someone has been harmed as a result of underage drinking. Six cases are included. Class Action is published by Project Northland.

Students have created art messages in a variety of formats including but not limited to; posters, banners, bookmarks, calendars, student curriculum guides, painted murals and tile murals. Each of the art pieces carries a message encouraging the choice to be alcohol free and making safe and healthy decisions. Some of the student products are available to be downloaded. For additional information please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it