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By Alison Sandstrom

Call for respondents

New online survey to gather information about alcohol use in Prince Albert

Mar 26, 2021 | 1:26 PM

A local group that hopes to change attitudes about drinking has launched a new survey to gather community feedback.

Karen Anthony Burns, coordinator of the Community Alcohol Strategy Steering Committee (CASSC), told paNOW the results will guide the organization’s future work. It’s also an opportunity to evaluate their progress since work on the Community Alcohol Strategy began in 2014.

“We looked at having a goal in five years of meeting five strategic directions and we want to have a sense of if we’ve met those or what areas we need focus our work on,” she said. “So this will help to inform our work.”

Community Alcohol Strategy Steering Committee hopes to compile the results and have an updated plan in place by fall, she continued.

Along with gathering data about drinking habits in P.A. and the surrounding area, the survey also provides the opportunity for people to give their own suggestions on how to reduce the harmful impacts of alcohol.

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“We’re always open to people’s ideas because we’re not prescriptive,” Anthony-Burns said. “We’re wanting to create a healthier community by providing information and empowering people to make that change.”

The survey is confidential and anonymous, but does provide respondents an opportunity to enter their name in a draw for one of five $100 grocery gift cards.

The Community Alcohol Strategy was the result of a participative planning process that began in 2014 involving 120 individuals who identified strategic directions to guide the future planning of the alcohol strategy over 5 years.

Further community consultation sessions were held in 2016, with information from those sessions added to the document.

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