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Highlights: Student Engagement
To engage students, campuses can consult the Guide to Best Practices, use social media, use universal screening, and involve students.
Affirmations: What they are and why they might motivate students to reduce their drinking
A student goes to the bar each week to reduce stress from juggling classes and a job. Their GPA is dropping, jeopardizing their scholarship. A good time to use affirmations is in situations where you detect that a student is feeling ambivalent about changing their behavior.
Core Skills for a Meaningful Conversation
A student’s GPA is dangerously close to getting them kicked out. They tell you that they have been overwhelmed by classes, family, and job responsibilities. One of the only highlights this semester has been going out to the bar with their roommates every week.
Conversations with Students Who Minimize Their High-Risk Alcohol Use
A student comes to your appointment, class, or team practice with a broken ankle. When you ask how it happened, they say that they “partied too hard.” The student tries to laugh it off and says, “I don’t have a drinking problem, though.”
Highlights: Making Alcohol Policies More Accessible
To make alcohol policies more accessible, use QR codes on flyers, create multiple touch points, and rely on data and practices that reach students.
Frostburg State University Tackles Excessive Drinking-Binge Drinking Rates Plummet
Administrators here at Frostburg State University (FSU) care about students and want them to be healthy. We know there are a lot of acute legal, social, personal, and academic harms related to high-risk drinking.
Fall Semester—A Time for Parents To Discuss the Risks of College Drinking
As college students arrive on campus this fall, it is typically a time of new experiences, new friendships, and making memories that will last a lifetime. Unfortunately for many, it is also a time of harmful and underage drinking.
A Guide to Best Practices
This is the 3rd edition of A Guide to Best Practices. The Guide synthesizes the existing research on interventions, effective and not effective.
Amelia Arria: A Researcher’s Lens on Drinking and Drug Use in College
Forge sound strategies and intervention policies to help students stay healthy and successful on their academic journey.
Success Story: Social Host Ordinance in Baltimore County
In Towson, Maryland, community volunteers worked with one of the largest universities in the state to reduce excessive drinking among college students.
College Drinking: Prevention Perspectives – “Lessons Learned at Frostburg State University”
This video shows the actions taken by Frostburg State University to reduce campus underage and harmful drinking.
Back to School Updates and Resources
The new school year is upon us, and amidst all the excitement, the risks of excessive drinking are very real and serious. Alcohol and sexual assault are connected in complex ways, and it’s important for parents and guardians to know how to discuss these topics.
Realtors Endorse Social Host Law, New Brain & Adolescent Research
Baltimore County Council bill number 2-17, which would expand the existing social host ordinance into several additional Towson neighborhoods following the initial success of the law that aimed to address loud and unruly parties.
Key Findings from The Maryland Collaborative
This evidence review describes the findings of the multilevel, multicomponent statewide initiative.
Alcohol and the College Student Brain
Learn more about how alcohol harms brain structures that carry out learning, memory, and information processing tasks and can impede their progress toward reaching their goals.
Collegiate Recovery Programs: A Win-Win Proposition for Students and Colleges
This fact sheet will explain what Collegiate Recovery Programs are, their benefits and how they are used to support students who are in recovery from substance use disorders.
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Highlights: Student Engagement
To engage students, campuses can consult the Guide to Best Practices, use social media, use universal screening, and involve students.
Affirmations: What they are and why they might motivate students to reduce their drinking
A student goes to the bar each week to reduce stress from juggling classes and a job. Their GPA is dropping, jeopardizing their scholarship. A good time to use affirmations is in situations where you detect that a student is feeling ambivalent about changing their behavior.
Core Skills for a Meaningful Conversation
A student’s GPA is dangerously close to getting them kicked out. They tell you that they have been overwhelmed by classes, family, and job responsibilities. One of the only highlights this semester has been going out to the bar with their roommates every week.
Conversations with Students Who Minimize Their High-Risk Alcohol Use
A student comes to your appointment, class, or team practice with a broken ankle. When you ask how it happened, they say that they “partied too hard.” The student tries to laugh it off and says, “I don’t have a drinking problem, though.”
Highlights: Making Alcohol Policies More Accessible
To make alcohol policies more accessible, use QR codes on flyers, create multiple touch points, and rely on data and practices that reach students.
Frostburg State University Tackles Excessive Drinking-Binge Drinking Rates Plummet
Administrators here at Frostburg State University (FSU) care about students and want them to be healthy. We know there are a lot of acute legal, social, personal, and academic harms related to high-risk drinking.
Fall Semester—A Time for Parents To Discuss the Risks of College Drinking
As college students arrive on campus this fall, it is typically a time of new experiences, new friendships, and making memories that will last a lifetime. Unfortunately for many, it is also a time of harmful and underage drinking.
A Guide to Best Practices
This is the 3rd edition of A Guide to Best Practices. The Guide synthesizes the existing research on interventions, effective and not effective.
Amelia Arria: A Researcher’s Lens on Drinking and Drug Use in College
Forge sound strategies and intervention policies to help students stay healthy and successful on their academic journey.
Success Story: Social Host Ordinance in Baltimore County
In Towson, Maryland, community volunteers worked with one of the largest universities in the state to reduce excessive drinking among college students.
College Drinking: Prevention Perspectives – “Lessons Learned at Frostburg State University”
This video shows the actions taken by Frostburg State University to reduce campus underage and harmful drinking.
Back to School Updates and Resources
The new school year is upon us, and amidst all the excitement, the risks of excessive drinking are very real and serious. Alcohol and sexual assault are connected in complex ways, and it’s important for parents and guardians to know how to discuss these topics.
Realtors Endorse Social Host Law, New Brain & Adolescent Research
Baltimore County Council bill number 2-17, which would expand the existing social host ordinance into several additional Towson neighborhoods following the initial success of the law that aimed to address loud and unruly parties.
Key Findings from The Maryland Collaborative
This evidence review describes the findings of the multilevel, multicomponent statewide initiative.
Alcohol and the College Student Brain
Learn more about how alcohol harms brain structures that carry out learning, memory, and information processing tasks and can impede their progress toward reaching their goals.
Collegiate Recovery Programs: A Win-Win Proposition for Students and Colleges
This fact sheet will explain what Collegiate Recovery Programs are, their benefits and how they are used to support students who are in recovery from substance use disorders.