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| HEC/News e-Digest | September 24, 2010 |
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New Center This Week! Features, publications, Prevention Updates, and learning and training opportunities
This Week! U.S. Department of Education's National Meeting on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention in Higher Education Highlights
Register now for the National Meeting on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention in Higher Education, October 18-20, 2010, at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland.
If you have registered for the conference, please reserve your room as soon as possible.
Highlights include:
- Featured keynote speaker Dr. Eduardo Ochoa, Assistant Secretary, Office of Postsecondary Education, will speak about higher education policies and how they relate to alcohol and other drug abuse and violence prevention.
- Senior Administrators Forum regarding legal cases and pressing issues senior administrators face.
- A panel discussion of researchers and government administrators regarding trends and emerging issues in alcohol and other drug abuse prevention on college campuses.
- Two Emerging Issues Forums, numerous workshops and poster sessions.
For more information, visit www.osdfshigheredconference.com.
More information about This Week! Features can be viewed on the Center's Web site.
Center's Strategic Planning 101 Webinar Available for Viewing
On September 16, 2010, the Higher Education Center conducted a Webinar, Strategic Planning 101: How to Develop Effective Campus Alcohol Prevention.
This program helped participants develop skills to address alcohol-related problems in their campus communities and use a strategic planning work sheet to identify problems, goals, resources, partners, and effective strategies to bring about long-lasting change.
To view a recording of the Webinar and download related materials, please visit the Higher Education Center's Web site.
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"Alcohol policy enforcement"
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Sexual violence prevention programs planned
Colleges Try To Discourage Binge Drinking Among Freshmen
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Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Violence Prevention
55 Chapel Street
Newton, MA 02458
(800) 676-1730
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| Announcements from the Field | Upcoming conferences and events, new resources and publications, and job opportunities in the alcohol, drug abuse, and violence prevention field. The Center does not necessarily endorse the events and resources listed below, but offer this information as a service to the AODV prevention field.
2011 Service to Science Initiative: Call for Nominations
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (SAMHSA/CSAP) and the Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT) has issued a call for nominations to its Service to Science Initiative. This national initiative is dedicated to enhancing the evaluation capacity of innovative programs and practices that aim to prevent substance abuse and related mental and behavioral health problems or the underlying factors associated with increased risk.
The deadline for states to submit nominations, including campus-based AOD prevention programs, is October 15, 2010. More information is available on the Higher Education Center's Web site.
Monitoring the Future Reports Available Free of Charge Online Each year since 1975, Monitoring the Future has published summary statistics from in-school surveys of high school seniors. Questions include drug use and views about drugs, delinquency and victimization, changing roles for women, confidence in social institutions, concerns about energy and ecology, and social and ethical attitudes. The volume presenting the 2009 national survey results is now available, and can be downloaded free of charge. In addition, Monitoring the Future's 12th-grade descriptive results for nearly 2,000 items are now available in annual volumes for 1975 through 2009.
To download, please visit the Monitoring the Future Web site.
Job Opportunities The following positions were recently posted to the Job Opportunities section of the Center's Web site:
Director of Wellness University of Southern Florida Alcohol and Drug Health Educator Towson University
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| From the U.S. Department of Education | | Announcements and news from the U.S. Department of Education.
National Meeting on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Prevention Workshops
Below is a sample of the alcohol and other drug abuse (AOD) prevention sessions that will be included at the National Meeting on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention in Higher Education:
- Crafting Communications Strategies for College Binge Drinking Prevention: Highlights from Recent Qualitative and Quantitative Research
- From Just Say No to Just Say Know: Why Our Students Need Honest, Pragmatic, and Realistic Drug Education Programs
- A Collaborative Multi-College Perspective on Programming with Greek Student Organizations
- Prescription Drug Abuse Examined: Pharmaceutical Populism, Social Norms, and Other Implications for Collegiate Prevention
- Get Your Geek On: Utilizing Technology to Enhance Our Alcohol Prevention Programming
- The Safer Project: Reducing Problems at Off-Campus Party Settings
- Alcohol and College Life: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Web-Based Formal Education to Prevent High-Risk Drinking
- Development of Campus Community Collaborations to Address High-Risk Alcohol Consumption among College Students
- Health Prevention Programming in Difficult Times: Results from Two Community College Health Studies
A full list of AOD prevention workshop sessions can be viewed on the Higher Education Center's National Meeting Web page at http://www.higheredcenter.org/natl.
September is Recovery Month
President Obama has proclaimed September 2010 as National Alcohol and Drug Addition Recovery Month. This is a great opportunity to raise public awareness about addiction, celebrate people in recovery, and assist those still struggling.
Join the Voices for Recovery: Now More Than Ever!
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is offering a variety of materials to help organizations reach out to their communities. Materials are available at the SAMHSA Web site.
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| The Latest Research | The latest research related to campus-based alcohol, other drug abuse, and violence (AODV) prevention, with a special focus on the scope of the problem and promising strategies and interventions.
Abar, C. C., & Maggs, J. L. (2010). Social influence and selection processes as predictors of normative perceptions and alcohol use across the transition to college. Journal of College Student Development, 51(5), 496-508. Abbey, A. (2008, December). Alcohol and sexual violence perpetration. Harrisburg, PA: VAWnet, a project of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence/Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Available online at: http://www.vawnet.org.
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The Higher Education Center news service (HEC/News) is provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Violence Prevention as a way to disseminate news and information related to alcohol and other drug abuse and violence prevention on campus and in surrounding communities. Through its Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, the Department funds the Center under contract number ED-04-CO-0069/0005. The contracting officer's representative is Phyllis Scattergood. The content of HEC/News e-Digest does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Education, nor does the mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. government.
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