Increasingly, girls and young women worldwide are participating in regular alcohol use and binge drinking. Material from 2 projects related to girls and heavy alcohol use is included here. 

The first project involved a literature search, key informant interviews, a one-day symposium and a report developed in 2009-10, in a project funded by the Provincial Health Services Authority in BC. This project looked at the prevalence, trends, health impacts and key influences, as well examples of existing gender-informed programming.

The second project (currently underway in 2010-11)  is looking more closely at prevention and health promotion programming for girls and young women, to  identify promising practices in reaching and engaging girls and young women on prevention of heavy alcohol use and related issues.  If you or your organization/ agency are developing gender-specific and gender-informed programming and/or are interested in applying a ‘sex-gender-based-analysis’ to prevention programming for/with girls and young women, please contact us (see the about us section)

Here you can link to:

- Information sheets and Reports produced by BCCEWH

- Other Documents online of interest on girls and alcohol

- Webcast presentations

- Links to websites