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| HEC/News e-Digest | March 11, 2011 |
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| From the Center | |
New Center This Week! Features, publications, Prevention Updates, and learning and training opportunities
This Week! New Resource Addresses Off-Campus Parties
The Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center is offering a new guide, Party Patrols: Best Practice Guidelines for College Communities. The guide offers standard operating procedures for monitoring and interrupting unruly community parties.
More information about This Week! Features can be viewed at the Center's Web site.
Prevention Update, Social Host Ordinances and Policies, Now Posted
Social Host Ordinances and Policies: Social host liability laws (also known as teen party ordinances, loud or unruly gathering ordinances, or response costs ordinances) target the location in which underage drinking takes place. Social host liability laws hold noncommercial individuals responsible for underage drinking events on property they own, lease, or otherwise control. They differ from laws prohibiting individuals from providing alcoholic beverages to underage persons; social host laws target providing the venue where underage drinking takes place.
To view online or download Social Host Ordinances and Policies, please visit the Prevention Updates page on the Center's Web site.
Save the Date! Upcoming Webinar: Building and Sustaining Statewide Initiatives for Effective Alcohol Prevention
Statewide initiatives (SWIs), or statewide coalitions, are concerted efforts by institutions of higher education, community organizations, and government officials in a state to change aspects of the campus and community environment that contribute to high-risk alcohol use. Long-lasting environmental change is accomplished by creating and mobilizing campus and community coalitions to local action and collaborating at the state level to advance policy and environmental change. This Webinar will also highlight lessons learned and best practices from successful SWIs.
Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Time: 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Visit the Center's Web site for more information and registration details, coming soon.
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"Guns on campus"
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| Recent News Articles | |
No guns on college campus, say Senate Republicans
Idaho bill would OK campus guns - including at games
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| More information |
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.
Register Now: North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault 2011 Statewide Conference The North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault(NCCASA) is happy to announce their upcoming conference: "Leading Everyday Advocating for a Difference". Dates: May 17-19, 2011 Location: New Bern, North Carolina Keynote speakers include: - David Lee, California Coalition Against Sexual Assault
- Sally Laskey, National Sexual Violence Resource Center
- Tony Porter, A Call to Men
- Lynn Yew, Girls Educational & Mentoring Services
For more information and to register, visit the NCCASA Web site. Mark Your Calendar: National Prevention Network Prevention Research Conference Coordinated by the Southwest Prevention Center at the University of Oklahoma, the National Prevention Network Prevention Research Conference provides a forum to explore the latest prevention research, application, and practice to empower and promote positive outcomes in community, state, and federal environments. Dates: September 20-23, 2011 Location: Atlanta, Georgia For more information, visit the National Prevention Network Prevention Research Conference site. Job Opportunities The following positions were recently posted to the Job Opportunities section of the Center's Web site: Associate Director Wellness Center Loyola University South Dakota State University Wellness Center Director Coordinator, Campus-Community Harm Reduction Initiatives University of Iowa
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| From the U.S. Department of Education | | Announcements and news from the U.S. Department of Education.
Call for Applications: Grants to Reduce Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking on Campus
The U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) is now accepting applications for Fiscal Year 2011 Grants to Reduce Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking on Campus Program (Campus Program).
The Campus Program supports a coordinated community approach that enhances victim safety and assistance and efforts to hold offenders accountable. Campuses are encouraged to adopt policies and protocols that treat violence against women crimes as serious offenses and develop victim services and programs that make victim safety, offender accountability, and prevention of such crimes a high priority.
The deadline for applications is March 31, 2011. For more information, please visit the Campus Program grant solicitation guide.
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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.
Lord, S., Brevard, J., Budman, S. (2011). Connection to young adults: An online social network survey of beliefs and attitudes associated with prescription opioid misuse among college students. Substance Use & Misuse, 46(1), 66-76.
Novik, M. G., Howard, D. E., Boekeloo, B. O. (2011). Drinking motivations and experiences of unwanted sexual advances among undergraduate students. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 26(1), 34-39.
More research studies can be viewed in The Latest Research section on the Center's Web site.
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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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