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| HEC/News e-Digest | May 4, 2012 |
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| From the Center | |
New Center This Week! Features, publications, Prevention Updates, and learning and training opportunities
This Week! NIH Resource: College Drinking Fact Sheet
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the National Institutes of Health has published a new resource, College Drinking, with information about the consequences of abusive college drinking, factors affecting student drinking, and how to address college drinking.
More information about This Week! Features can be viewed at the Center's Web site.
New Web Page: Presidential and Trustee Leadership - Sexual Violence, Intimate Partner Violence & Stalking
In October 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) hosted the first-ever National Summit on Campus Safety for College and University Presidents. Nearly 70 representatives from colleges and universities across the country and Puerto Rico came together to discuss the critically important issue of campus safety. Attendees shared information related to campus crime and worked to strengthen safety programs by developing campus-based coordinated community responses to domestic and dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
In one outcome from the summit, the U.S. Department of Education's Higher Education Center has developed, in collaboration with OVW staff, the new Web page, Presidential and Trustee Leadership - Sexual Violence, Intimate Partner Violence & Stalking, which provides information on research, federal mandates, and resources, as well as specific actions presidents and trustees can take to address sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and stalking.
For more information, please visit the new Web page, Presidential and Trustee Leadership - Sexual Violence, Intimate Partner Violence & Stalking.
Free Training Institute: "If You Build It, They Will Come - Building and Sustaining Effective Campus Recovery Programs"
Researchers estimate that as many as 31 percent of college students meet diagnostic criteria for alcohol abuse, and another 6 percent are alcohol dependent. The environment on college campuses and in their surrounding communities often supports a culture of high-risk drinking. Staying sober and completing their college education in an environment where drinking and, to a lesser extent, other drug use are accepted and prevalent presents real challenges for students who are in recovery from alcohol and/or drug addiction. Training participants will gain knowledge and build skills that will enable them to start a campus recovery program or strengthen and sustain a program that is already established.
Dates: August 2-3, 2012
Location: Washington, D.C.
Registration (coming in late May): Free
For more information, please visit the Center's Web site; please contact Tracy Downs with any questions.
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Debunking "liquid courage" myth slows college binge drinking
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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.
SAMHSA Releases 2010 Town Hall Meetings: Mobilizing Communities To Prevent and Reduce Underage Alcohol Use
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), as the lead agency for the federal Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking (ICCPUD), coordinated national Town Hall Meetings in 2010 to prevent underage drinking. These meetings provided communities with an opportunity to learn more about underage alcohol use and its consequences and to build their capacity in implementing evidence-based approaches that can help prevent underage drinking.
To download the report, please visit the SAMHSA Web site.
Final Questions of the SCOPE Thought Piece
The School and College Organization for Prevention Educators (SCOPE) has assembled a group of contributors (including Linda Langford, associate director for violence prevention initiatives of the U.S. Department of Education's Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Violence Prevention) to offer their thoughts on the biggest questions facing prevention educators today. Over the final two weeks, the group will tackle the following questions, one per week. Individual responses to the questions will be posted on the SCOPE Blog once a week and will be open for comments from the field.
The final two questions are as follows:
- Would you recommend a centralized prevention office or function for schools and college campuses? If so, what would an ideal centralized prevention function look like in your view?
- Should prevention efforts be piecemeal or strategic within risk areas to maximize effectiveness? How about across risk areas? What suggestions do you have for schools and campuses looking to develop and apply a strategic prevention curriculum, including content, timing, dosage, audience and more?
To read the Thought Piece responses and to comment, please visit the SCOPE Blog.
Registration Ending: 2012 Novak Institute for Hazing Prevention
This four-day, interactive experience teaches diverse groups of interdisciplinary participants how to address hazing from a strategic approach that focuses on prevention rather than just response. The institute is designed for chief or senior student affairs officers; athletics administration and coaches; campus fraternities and sororities; band, music, and theatre organizations; student conduct and compliance; risk management; residential life; student activities; campus law enforcement and safety; legal counsel; and sport clubs.
Dates: June 6-9, 2012
Location: University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Registration Deadline: May 11, 2012
To learn more about the institute and to register, please visit the HazingPrevention.org Web site.
Save the Dates! Alcohol Policy 16: "Building Blocks for Sound Alcohol Policies"
This 16th conference in the Alcohol Policy series by the Silver Gate Group (SGG) will explore progress in advancing sound alcohol policies at the local, regional, national, and international levels. Since 1981, when the first in this series of alcohol policy conferences took place, experiences in alcohol policy research, development, implementation, enforcement, and evaluation at all four levels have acted as building blocks to identify and promote evidence-based strategies, and to bring focus to the need for alcohol policy reform.
Dates: April 3-5, 2013
Location: Washington, D.C.
For more information, please visit the SGG Alcohol Policy 16 Web site.
Job Opportunities
The following positions were recently posted to the Job Opportunities section of the Center's Web site:
Assistant Dean of Students for Chemical Health and Outreach Programming (contingent on funding)
St. Cloud State University
Director of Alcohol Abuse & Impaired Driving Prevention Initiatives
The BACCHUS Network
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| From the U.S. Department of Education | Announcements and news from the U.S. Department of Education.
ED's OSHS Prevention News Digest
If you would like weekly e-mail updates on Office of Safe and Healthy Students 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 OSHS Prevention News Digest. Subscription information is at http://www2.ed.gov/news/newsletters/listserv/preventioned.html. |
| 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.
Hester, R. K., Delaney, H. D., & Campbell, W. (2012). The College Drinker's Check-Up: Outcomes of two randomized clinical trials of a computer-delivered intervention. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 26(1), 1-12.
McMahon, S., & Banyard, V. L. (2012). When can I help? A conceptual framework for the prevention of sexual violence through bystander intervention. Trauma, Violence, and Abuse, 13(1), 3-14.
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 Healthy Students, 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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