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UKCAPP: An Alcohol Education & Research Council Initiative

In 2003, the Alcohol Education & Research Council (AERC) discussed priorities for the ensuing year and concluded that Community Action programmes were becoming increasingly accepted as key health promotion initiatives to deal with alcohol-related issues. Such programmes move away from placing the responsibility solely on individuals and their families and promote community ownership of problems and solutions. They aim to change policies and structures within communities that maintain high levels of alcohol-related harm. They empower communities to promote their own well-being and to reduce distress caused to them by intoxicated and rowdy behaviour, and by irresponsible selling of alcohol which encourages such behaviour. They might focus upon community mobilization, responsible beverage service in licensed premises, reduced availability of alcohol being sold to minors, as well as drink driving and media campaigns. In order to look more closely at such an approach, the AERC invited Harold Holder from the Prevention Research Center in Berkeley, California and Sven Andreasson from the National Institute of Public Health in Stockholm to run a seminar for districts throughout the UK who were developing a partnership approach to Community Interventions. Eight districts sent a team to this 2-day meeting and all of them applied for AERC funding to support a Community Intervention. Cardiff, Birmingham and Glasgow were successful and this special issue covers their progress to date.