Aimee Hourigan, Director of Substance Abuse Prevention and Education at the University of South Carolina, presented strategies for implementing screening outside of health care settings, including screening with high-risk populations, and discussed waysto use data to engage campus stakeholders in prevention efforts.

Why Screening?

• Screening/brief intervention is an evidence-based practice that has demonstrated efficacy with college students in a variety of settings.
• Online delivery of personalized feedback reduces student alcohol use as effectively as face-to-face.

USC’s Comprehensive Approach

• Prevention
• Early Intervention
• Recovery Support
• Policy and Enforcement
• Environmental Management

Screening Sanctioned Students

• USC uses ScreenU and Alcohol 101+ for sanctioned students.
• ScreenU asks questions such as “What are some reasons you’ve thought about changing your drinking?”

Screening Fraternity and Sorority Members

• They give a small group presentation and discuss how risky is “X” activity? What is the impact?
• Chapter members complete ScreenU individually during the presentation, then see and discuss their group results.
  • As a group, are we worried about our results? Did we know x% don’t use? Do we support them? What do we do about the people we’re worried about? This requires a skilled facilitator.
• Chapters can request the presentation when they have new members or have an event coming up.

Screening Dry January Campaign – Implement screening in innovative ways.

• Tabling in the rec center Monday 4:00 – 6:00, and university union.
  • Use ScreenU and ask “how are your resolutions?”. Best give away: bananas!
  • They use QR code for ScreenU and most students do it on their phone.
• They reached juniors and seniors much more than any other program.

Challenges and Tips

• Challenges: facilitating conversations, training peer educators, taking the first step.
• Tips: demonstrations, use the data, build relationships, help students define problem drinking.

Taking the First Step

• They put it in places that were easy to start. Others soon approached them with other places to use it.
• They asked student leaders where to do demos. Providing data and information on risk level of their students is very effective in beginning the conversation.
• They give students clarity about what problematic drinking looks like and how to intervene.

Ideas for ScreenU Implementation

• Student organizations
• FSL new members
• U101assignment Websites
• Academic advising
• Students on academic probation
• Academic integrity sanction
•  Blackboard announcement
• Waiting rooms

Discussion

Is there an ideal size?

• It depends on your facilitator. For a fruitful conversation, the group has to care about what that group approves of.The FSL chapters care about what the other people in the room have to say.

Is it customizable?

• You can add your own logo and create a new campaign for each group.
• The value of ScreenU is the brief intervention at the end. The hard part is the Motivational Interviewing – the conversation. ScreenU does that electronically.

How do you initiate the screening with fraternities and sororities?

• The group that gets in trouble is required to do the screening.
• The national orgs have requirements for education. There are chapter standards. They create a packet that shows how they meet those standards.
• Their student groups respond well to the incentives.

What about coordinating with the Mental Health Center?

• She has asked mental health center to add this to mental health screening. They have done co- sponsored programs with the mental health center. One will screen for mental health and the other will screen for substance use.

Are athletic teams a harder audience?

• It’s the same idea: If they care about what others in the room think, that convo is successful.
• Sports teams are challenging. You have to build trust. Nobody in the room who will tell on them. This anonymous tool would be useful for that reason.