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| HEC/News e-Digest | June 10, 2011 |
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| From the Center | |
New Center This Week! Features, publications, Prevention Updates, and learning and training opportunities
This Week! Learning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking Launched
In early May 2011, fourteen colleges and universities announced an initiative to fight high-risk drinking. The Learning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking is the inaugural project of the National College Health Improvement Project, a joint undertaking between Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.) and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.
More information about This Week! Features can be viewed at the Center's Web site.
Registration Open for Online Training:
"Preventing Violence and Promoting Safety in Higher Education Settings"
Register now for this online training as space is limited. After participating in "Preventing Violence and Promoting Safety in Higher Education Settings," participants will be able to explain the key elements of a framework for violence prevention in higher education; identify sources for relevant data and research to describe campus-specific problems and related risk and protective factors; use that information to create violence prevention efforts that are strategic and tailored to local needs and priorities; analyze current efforts and increase the extent to which each one has clear goals and objectives, follows best practices, and is coordinated and synergistic with other efforts; and access additional Higher Education Center products and services.
Dates: July 18-29, 2011
For more information about this online training, please visit the Center's Web site.
Draft Agenda for "Improving Campus Climate for LGBT Students" Training Institute
The draft agenda for the Higher Education Center's upcoming Training Institute has now been posted on the Center's Web site.
Dates: July 13-14, 2011
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
For more information and to register for "Improving Campus Climate for LGBT Students," visit the Center's Training Institute Web page.
Prevention Update: Changing Policies on Campus Now Posted
High-Risk Drinking in College: What We Know and What We Need To Learn: Final Report of the Panel on Contexts and Consequences (2002), a report from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism's (NIAAA) Task Force on College Drinking, points out that "federal, state, and local laws help define college administrators' responsibilities for taking action when students misuse alcohol." Among other requirements, the federal Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act and its 1989 amendments require institutions receiving any federal funds to define a policy that prohibits the unlawful possession, use, and distribution of alcohol and other drugs; adopt disciplinary sanctions for students and employees who violate the school's policy on alcohol and drugs; and ensure that the disciplinary sanctions are consistently enforced.
To view online or download Changing Policies on Campus, please visit the Prevention Updates page on the Center's Web site.
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"Working in Coalitions"
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Taxi card targeted for students at bars
Educators aware of prescription drug use, turn to prevention
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Newton, MA 02458
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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 offers this information as a service to the AODV prevention field.
Save the Dates: Alcohol Policy 16 The Alcohol Policy conference series has aided the development of a number of national and international initiatives, including national prevention policies (e.g., increase in minimum legal drinking age to 21; promotion of recommendations from a surgeon general's workshop on impaired driving) and local actions (e.g., enforcement of laws pertaining to underage alcohol sales and possession). Dates: April 3-5, 2013 Location: Washington, D.C. For more information, visit the Alcohol Policy 16 Web site. CDC Report Finds Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Students at Greater Risk for Unhealthy, Unsafe Behaviors Students who report being gay, lesbian, or bisexual and students who report having sexual contact only with persons of the same sex or both sexes are more likely than heterosexual students and students who report having sexual contact only with the opposite sex to engage in unhealthy risk behaviors such as tobacco use, alcohol and other drug use, sexual risk behaviors, suicidal behaviors, and violence, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This report represents the first time that the federal government has conducted an analysis of this magnitude across a wide array of states, large urban school districts, and risk behaviors. To learn more, see the CDC press release. Health Indicators Warehouse (HIW) The HIW, which includes data on alcohol, other drugs, and violence, along with many other health factors, is a collaboration of many agencies and offices within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and is maintained by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. Each indicator in the HIW is associated with one or more topic area, such as disease, condition, age group, or socio-demographic characteristics; most of the indicators in the HIW have national-level data. For more information, visit the HIW Web site. Job Opportunities The following positions were recently posted to the Job Opportunities section of the Center's Web site: Health Educator for Student Wellness Missouri University of Science and Technology Community Health Educator Penn State University Health Educator Kansas State University Coordinator of Substance Abuse Prevention University of Arkansas |
| From the U.S. Department of Education | Announcements and news from the U.S. Department of Education.
ED's Safe and Supportive Schools News If you would like weekly e-mail updates on Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools programs, as well as other information related to school safety, substance abuse and violence prevention in education, and the promotion of student health and well-being, you may be interested in subscribing to ED's Safe and Supportive School News. Subscription information is at http://www.ed.gov/news/newsletters/listserv/preventioned.html.
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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.
Banyard, V. L. (2011). Who will help prevent sexual violence: Creating an ecological model of bystander intervention. Psychology of Violence, online May 23, 2011.
Hagman, B. T., Cohn, A. M., Noel, N. E., & Clifford, P. R. (2011). Collateral informant assessment in alcohol use research involving college students. Journal of American College Health, 59(2), 82-90.
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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