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            Collegiate Prevention Programming

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Substance Use Disorder is a brain disease characterized by persistent drug-seeking and/or drug-taking behaviors, effecting a person's physical, social, emotional, and/or occupational aspects of a person's life (Shariatirad et al., 2013; Volkow et al., 2011).

 

Prevention programs strengthen protective factors prevention by addressing those most at risk with accurate information about alcohol and other drugs, articulate the potential consequences from their abuse, and offer activities unrelated to drinking or drugging. Below are examples of evidence based prevention for college campuses. To find the right program for your campus, check out SAMHSA's Resource Center and the College AIM website.  

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Prevention Network does not endorse the following programs. All programs should be evaluated for effectiveness and cost by the individual institution. This non-inclusive list only serves as a possible resource.

Brief Motivational Interviewing (BMI)
BASICS

A brief motivational intervention for high-risk college students that uses alcohol screening and feedback to reduce problem drinking, excessive drinking, and binge drinking by enhancing motivation to change, promoting healthier choices, reviewing myths and facts about alcohol, and teaching coping skills to moderate drinking.

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BMI emphasizes personal responsibility and self-efficacy of participants, offering them personalized feedback on their alcohol use, risks, expectancies, perceptions of social norms, and options for reducing problems and consequences. Discussions are guided by a trained facilitator. Goals for behavioral change are set by participants (College AIM, 2018). 

Bystander Intervention
Intervene

The online 20-minute video Intervene includes brief filmed scenarios demonstrating ways in which student bystanders can successfully intervene in problematic situations. An in-person 60-minute workshop provides an opportunity for students to view the video with others and engage in a facilitated conversation to reflect upon the attitudes and behaviors that influence the process of intervening as an individual or with assistance.

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Bystander intervention is a philosophy and strategy for prevention of various types of violence, including alcohol and other drug use, bullying, sexual harassment/assault, and hazing. Bystander Intervention is based on the psychological phenomenon: bystander effect or bystander apathy.

Collegiate Recovery Community/Program (CRC/CRP)
ARHE

The Association of Recovery in Higher Education (ARHE) is the only association exclusively representing collegiate recovery programs (CRPs) and collegiate recovery communities (CRCs), the faculty and staff who support them, and the students who represent them. ARHE provides the education, resources, and community connection needed to help change the trajectory of recovering student’s lives. We are a network of professionals, administrators, faculty, staff, students, parents and policy makers.

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A collegiate Recovery Community/Program (CRC/CRP) is a supportive environment within the campus culture that reinforces the decision to disengage from addictive behavior. It is designed to provide an educational opportunity alongside recovery support to ensure that students do not have to sacrifice one for the other (ARHE, 2018).

Environmental Strategies
MCRUD

Michigan Coalition to Reduce Underage Drinking works with government officials and local agencies/organizations to support legislation protecting youth from underage drinking.

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Environmental-level strategies aim to reduce underage and excessive drinking at the population level by changing the context (i.e., places, settings, occasions, and circumstances) in which alcohol use occurs, thereby reducing consequences (College AIM, 2018). For more information, join Michigan Coalition to Reduce Underage Drinking (MCRUD), check out your local coalitions, or set up a meeting with your State representative and area law enforcement.  

Multicomponent Alcohol Programming
AlcoholEdu

Whether they are abstainers, moderate drinkers, or heavy drinkers, each student receives relevant content, personalized feedback and practical strategies that are appropriate for their needs. And, regardless of their path, every student receives a base level education on alcohol, since even an abstainer may try alcohol at some point.

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Multicomponent Alcohol Programming approaches target alcohol misuse by teaching students an array of alcohol-related skills (e.g., drink refusal, monitoring alcohol use, spacing drinks, advanced planning) and providing associated education to support skill use (College AIM, 2018). 

Parent Based Prevention Approaches
College Parents Matter

Your child still needs your guidance to navigate the obstacles standing between them and their diploma. Excessive drinking can be one of the biggest. It is a serious problem that undermines students’ health, safety, and academic success, for both themselves and their fellow students. Parents like you can help students avoid such problems… And keeping those lines of communication open is where you start.

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Parent-based alcohol communication training is a campus-sponsored program for parents of students, particularly incoming freshmen, to train parents to effectively talk with their children about alcohol use, avoidance, and consequences (College AIM, 2018). 

Peer Education
Certified Peer Educator

Campuses are relying on their students to be curators of change and support systems for their peers, and the CPE program provides foundational-level skills to allow these students to be successful. Throughout the 12 hour, 8 module course, students will hone their skill sets to be effective peer educators and leaders.

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Peer educators can help raise awareness, provide accurate information, and help their classmates develop skills to change behavior. Peer education is based on the reality that many people make changes not only based on what they know, but on the opinions and actions of their close, trusted peers.

Personalized Feedback Intervention (PFI)
eCheckup to go

Education alone is not sufficient. Behavior change requires personalized feedback...an intervention beyond education.

The eCHECKUP TO GO interventions were not created or designed to be static online assessment questionnaires nor typical drug education courses.

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PFI programs use a web-based assessment to generate graphic personalized feedback about students’ alcohol use, risks, expectancies, perceptions of social norms, and drinking motives. Feedback is delivered electronically or by mail and is not discussed with a trained facilitator (College AIM, 2018). 

Social Norms Campaign
National Social Norms Center

The mission of the NSNC includes research, evaluation, and dissemination of information on the social norms approach to the field. Our goals are to demonstrate and facilitate the extension of the methodology to other health issues and other populations.

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The basic idea behind a social norms marketing campaign is to turn campus alcohol and other drug use perceptions around by using campus-based statistics to inform students about the true levels of alcohol consumption among their peers. 

Other Programming
TIPS

TIPS (Training for Intervention ProcedureS) is the global leader in education and training for the responsible service, sale, and consumption of alcohol.

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