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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.
Webcast Posted! SAMHSA Webinar: "Making the Grade on College Drinking Prevention"
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) hosted a live Webcast of its national 2012 Town Hall Meeting on underage drinking prevention on February 6. The panel discussed both challenges and successes in preventing alcohol use by college students, with a focus on proven environmental prevention approaches, and answered questions from a live audience and from people posting via the Web.
To access the February 6, 2012, Webcast, please visit SAMHSA's Town Hall Meeting site.
Registration Open for SOC's Jeanne Clery Act Training Seminars
Security On Campus (SOC) has announced new locations for its revised and upgraded
Jeanne Clery Act Training Seminars. The training curriculum includes "Alerting Your Campus Community"; "The Who, What, When, and Where of Crime Statistics";"Sexual Violence (Title IX and Clery Intersection)"; "Development of Annual Security Report"; and "Best Practices from Student Affairs and Campus Safety."
Dates: March 5-6, 2012
Location: Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia
Dates: March 29-30, 2012
Location: University of Missouri-Saint Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
Dates: July 17-18, 2012
Location: Epcot Center, Orlando, Florida
Dates: August 9-10
Location: Wichita Area Technical School, Wichita, Kansas
To register, please visit the SOC Web site.
Registration Now Open! MVP Conference: "Bystander Intervention - From Its Roots to the Road Ahead"
Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) is presenting this global conference devoted to exploring the roots of the bystander intervention approach to gender violence prevention, and to helping set an agenda for next steps in the field. The conference will focus on bystander intervention in preventing gender violence while exploring a range of social, structural, and political dynamics that are seamlessly transferable to bystander efforts addressing other social problems.
Dates: May 31-June 1, 2012
Location: Northeastern University, Boston
Information on registration, lodging, and participation opportunities is available at the MVP Web site.
Online Training: "Use of Technology to Stalk"
The "Use of Technology to Stalk" is produced by the Stalking Resource Center of the National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC), with funding from the Office for Victims of Crime, U.S. Department of Justice. The purpose of this self-paced, interactive online training is to increase the ability of criminal justice professionals and victim service providers to recognize how stalkers use technology and, ultimately, enhance their ability to work with victims of stalking. Each technology module includes information on documenting evidence and investigation and considerations for victim safety.
For more information and to register, please visit the NCVC Stalking Resource Center Web site.
New Resource: "The Use of Technology to Stalk" DVD and Discussion Guide
This 15-minute video from the Stalking Resource Center of the National Center for Victims of Crime is designed to enhance awareness among professionals working with stalking victims of how stalkers use a vast array of technologies today.
The video is available on the NCVC Stalking Resource Center Web site.
Survey Opportunity: "Evidence-Based Campus Crime Prevention Survey 2012" Margolis Healy & Associates (MHA), with funding from the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau for Justice Assistance, is conducting a significant research project titled Best Practices for Campus Crime Prevention: Developing Evidence-Based Modern Crime Prevention Strategies for Institutions of Higher Education. As part of this project, MHA invites campus practitioners to participate in a survey designed to capture data associated with evidence-based crime prevention program characteristics, implementation, evaluation, and population relevancy. MHA would like to hear from professionals in the following positions: sworn campus public safety official, non-sworn campus public safety official, victim services advocate, prevention specialist, substance abuse specialist, counselor, student affairs professional, college/university administrator (not in student affairs), faculty member, systemwide (multiple campuses) leaders/coordinators, and community service volunteers.
More information about how the data will be used is available at the MHA Campus Crime Prevention Web site.
To participate in the survey, please visit "Evidence-Based Campus Crime Prevention Survey 2012."
ACHA 2012 Annual Meeting Preliminary Program Now Available Online
The American College Health Association (ACHA) 2012 Annual Meeting Preliminary Program with details about sessions, continuing education, events, and more is now available online!
To download the program, please visit the ACHA 2012 Annual Meeting Program and Events page.
To register, please visit the Registration and Fees page.
CAS to Introduce Five New Functional Areas of Standards and Guidelines The Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) has announced it will suspend all sales of its current publications effective April 15, 2012, and will start immediately taking orders for its new publications to be released on August 1, 2012. The CAS Professional Standards for Higher Education to be released in August 2012 will introduce five new functional areas of standards and guidelines: Campus Police and Security Programs, Parent and Family Programs, Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Prevention Programs, Transfer Student Programs and Services, and Veterans and Military Programs and Services. In addition, the General Standards have been updated to include technology and distance education services. Version 5.0 of the CD that contains all 43 functional area standards and guidelines and Self-Assessment Guides will also be released in August. More information is available on the CAS Web site.
Call for Papers: Special Issue on International Perspectives on Alcohol and Traffic Safety
The International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research, a peer-reviewed, free-of-charge, open access journal and the official journal of the Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol, invites the submission of papers on international perspectives on alcohol and traffic safety. Papers may deal with any aspect of the effect of alcohol on traffic safety, ranging from biological and behavioral aspects to social, policy, and public health concerns. The society encourages submissions that seek to improve understanding the nature of the problem, identify and evaluate current practices to address the problem, and consider new or innovative countermeasures.
Deadline for Submissions: December 31, 2012
For author guidelines, please visit the journal's Web site. To contact the guest editors of the special issue on alcohol and traffic safety, please contact James Lange or Robert Mann.
Job Opportunities The following positions were recently posted to the Job Opportunities section of the Center's Web site: 9-month tenure track Assistant/Associate Professor appointment in Health Education University of Alabama at Birmingham Assistant or Associate Director, Department of Alcohol and Drug Education and Support Services Loyola University Maryland Temporary Assistant Director for the Illinois Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Other Drug, and Violence Prevention Eastern Illinois University Community Health Educator Pennsylvania State University | 
