Free Online Alcohol Safety Education Program Offered to High School Students in Florida, Texas, and New York for the 2024-2025 School Year

The Youth Alcohol Awareness and Education Foundation, Inc.—established by Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits (Southern Glazer’s) to fund programs that support alcohol safety and underage drinking prevention—today announced the AlcoholEdu for High School online lesson is once again available at no cost to all high schools in Broward and Miami-Dade counties in Florida, Collin, Dallas , Denton, and Tarrant counties in Texas, and Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, and Richmond counties in New York for the 2024-2025 school year. The program will be available in these markets throughout the school year.

AlcoholEdu for High School, developed by EVERFI^® from Blackbaud^®, the leader in powering social impact through education, is a 90-minute, interactive resource that engages students in high school with science-based alcohol education and interactive exercises, providing an individualized experience that changes perceptions, motivates behavior change, and supports healthier decisions regarding alcohol. The course focuses on five categories: Knowing the Basics, Knowing Your Influences, Brain and Body, Smart Decisions, and Future Ready. Through this scalable online program, which has been proven to reduce negative consequences associated with underage drinking, schools can reach all students with a consistent message and empower them to make safer and healthier decisions about alcohol.

For the most recent 2023-2024 school year, the program saw significant increases in reach and impact. After having completed the Southern Glazer’s-sponsored course, students achieved 25% knowledge gain, by increasing their average assessment scores from 64% to 89%. Since the kickoff of Southern Glazer’s program in 2017, the initiative has impacted 41,493 students from more than 289 high schools, with the completion of nearly 34,000 hours of learning.

“As an individual, I do not plan on drinking, but now if I am in the vicinity of a person who has been I will be prepared with the right course of action to take,” said a student from Florida. “I liked the example of the positive peer pressure of, ‘not drinking till we’re both of legal age’, It was refreshing example of what is usually a stiff topic for some.”

Educators who used the digital education program during the 2023-2024 year provided overwhelmingly positive reviews, with 88% saying this course was interesting for their students, 83% agreeing the course enhanced their teaching material, and 100% providing a quality rating of “Good” or better.

“This is a great source and a different way of getting the information other than the teacher telling them,” said a participating educator.

The Youth Alcohol Awareness and Education Foundation launched the EVERFI program in South Florida in 2017, expanded into Dallas in 2019, and branched out into New York in 2020.

Teachers, guidance counselors, and school administrators in the available counties who are interested in implementing this program for the 2024-2025 school year can contact the following EVERFI Implementation Specialist for details:

In Florida: Aaron Harris at Aharris@everfi.com

In Texas: Heather Miller at Hmiller@everfi.com

In New York: Zack Rowe at ZRowe@everfi.com

About Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits

Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is the world’s preeminent distributor of beverage alcohol, building brands for moments that matter. The multi-generational, family-owned Company has operations in 44 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and Canada, as well as brokerage operations through its WEBB Banks division in the Caribbean, Central and South America. In 2024, Southern Glazer’s was recognized by Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity and America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women. Southern Glazer’s urges all retail customers and adult consumers to market, sell, serve, and enjoy its products responsibly. For more information visit www.southernglazers.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @sgwinespirits.

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