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| HEC/News e-Digest | July 8, 2011 |
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New Center This Week! Features, publications, Prevention Updates, and learning and training opportunities
This Week! "Safe Campus, Strong Voices" Campaign Launched
Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment (PAVE) and Security on Campus, Inc. (SOC) have joined together with other leading sexual assault groups for a national campaign during September for National Campus Safety Awareness Month. "Safe Campus, Strong Voices" is a nationwide campaign to raise awareness and shatter the silence of college sexual violence. The campaign provides materials, training, and ideas to bring prevention education programs to campus, to hold tabling events, and to collaborate with other groups and offices on campus throughout the month of September and beyond.
More information about This Week! Features can be viewed at the Center's Web site. |
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ND college binge drinking rates continue to fall
Blackouts linked to future drinking injuries in college students
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Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Violence Prevention
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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 and other drug abuse and violence (AODV) prevention field. The information shared on this site does not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Education or the Higher Education Center. The U.S. Department of Education and the Higher Education Center do not necessarily endorse the events and resources listed below, but offer this information as a service to the AODV prevention field.
Save the Date! National Hazing Prevention Week Webinar Series 2011 Registration Coming Soon
HazingPrevention.Org will offer a series of webinars in celebration of National Hazing Prevention Week. Topics include:
Breaking the Code: Hazing Investigations Webinar
Presented by David Westol
September 7
For Students, By Students
A Student Panel Discussion Facilitated by Kim Novack
September 13
Preventing Hazing in Residential Communities
Presented by Amanda Horvat and Lynda O'Malley
September 22
Hazing Culture
Presented by Tim Marchell
September 29
For more information, visit HazingPrevention.Org's Web site.
24th Annual National Prevention Network Prevention Research Conference
The National Prevention Network (NPN) 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. With renewed insights and new learning, prevention professionals, researchers and practitioners contribute to a healthy and balanced society.
Dates: September 20-23, 2011
Location: Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta, Georgia
For more information, visit NPN's Prevention Research Conference Web site.
Job Opportunities
The following positions were recently posted to the Job Opportunities section of the Center's Web site:
Health Assistant Professor
Stephen F. Austin State University
Assistant Director for Health Education and Promotion
Eastern Illinois University
Interpersonal Violence Prevention Specialist
University of Texas at Austin
Director Student Health, Wellness and Counseling Services, Administrator III (Job #11-54)
Humboldt State University, Arcata, California
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| From the U.S. Department of Education | Announcements and news from the U.S. Department of Education.
New FERPA and HEA Emergency Guidance
The Department's new guidance,Addressing Emergencies on Campus (June 2011), is intended to assist campus officials who may be reassessing their campus safety policies by offering a summary of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), as well as pertinent provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) that apply to postsecondary institutions.
To read the complete guidance, visit Addressing Emergencies on Campus.
Questions about this guidance or other requirements of FERPA may be e-mailed to FERPA@ED.Gov.
Questions about the HEA requirements can be directed to campussecurityhelp@westat.com.
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 and other drug abuse and violence (AODV) prevention, with a special focus on the scope of the problem and promising strategies and interventions.
Ahrens, C.E., Rich, M.D., Ullman, J.B. (2011). Rehearsing for real life: The impact of InterACT Sexual Assault Prevention Program on self-reported likelihood of engaging in bystander interventions. Violence Against Women, online May 31, 2011
Borden, L.A., Martens, M.P., McBride, M.A., Sheline, K.T., Bloch, K. K., Dude, K. (2011). The role of college students' use of protective behavioral strategies in the relation between binge drinking and alcohol-related problems. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 25(2), 346-351.
More research studies can be viewed in The Latest Research section on the Center's Web site.
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