Girl Talk

Choices and Consequences of Underage Drinking

The Century Council is proud to partner with Girl Talk: Desire to Inspire, a peer-to-peer mentoring program that offers positive weekly meetings and community service projects for middle school girls. Through this partnership we promote leadership and good decision-making among our nation's girls which includes saying "no" to underage drinking.

Research shows that mothers of teenage daughters underestimate the occurrence of underage drinking among their daughters and misjudge the seriousness of the issue. Research also shows a disturbing lack of effective communication between mothers and their daughters. Girl Talk: Choices and Consequences of Underage Drinking encourages mothers and daughters to engage in an ongoing dialogue about the dangers of underage drinking and the specific risks facing teenage girls.