Concurrent Sessions
Descriptions
Jane Vangsness is the alcohol and other drug P-7 Incorporating Values Clarification
(AOD) abuse prevention coordinator at North Training in Behavioral Choices
Dakota State University. She is experienced in
presenting on AOD topics to students and Values and Influences Toward Alcohol (VITA)
community members. program is the result of collaboration between
Karin Walton is the director of the North interested parties at the University of
Dakota Higher Education Consortium for Wisconsin-Madison. The presentation will
Substance Abuse Prevention. She has worked describe how VITA utilizes understanding of
with substance abuse prevention, intervention, the development of personal values to
and treatment for the past 18 years. She also understand students’ decisions about
serves as the North Dakota state coordinator substance use. Vita’s primary purpose is to
for the Network Addressing Collegiate Alcohol facilitate value-behavior alignment, which is
and Other Drug Issues. defined as a state in which deeply held beliefs
are congruent with decisions and behaviors.
Participants advance toward this goal through
P-6 Reconsidering Masculinity and a series of dynamic exercises that are based
Femininity: Implications for on personal beliefs as well as family,
community, and cultural factors.
Preventing Sexual Violence and
Alcohol Abuse Among High-risk Wendy Schmidt-Janosik has extensive
College Students experience in treating alcohol and other
substance abuse in both inpatient and
Alcohol-related sexual violence is a serious outpatient settings. Currently she is employed
problem among college students. This poster as a therapist and substance abuse specialist
session reports findings from a multi-method providing assessment and consultation to
qualitative study of the pathways through students, staff, and student services at the
which alcohol contributes to sexual violence. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Analysis of data from participant observation
and in-depth interviews with more than 90
heavy drinking college men and women shows
that issues of masculinity and femininity
feature centrally in participants’ alcohol use,
their sexual interactions, and their risk of
St. Cloud State University needed a new model The relationship between alcohol and
for addressing the needs of students who had depression is complex. Are students “self-
committed alcohol-related violations of the medicating” depression or anxiety with
student code of conduct. The presenters took alcohol, as we tend to assume? This
a “less is more” approach and used prior presentation will summarize recent studies
data to distill the key elements in effective among adolescents and in the general
intervention. They chose a small-group population that seem to indicate that drinking
format, 90-minute session led by two graduate precedes increased anxiety or depression. The
students trained in the curriculum. Their initial role of alcohol in suicidal behavior will also
outcome data indicate a reduction in peak be addressed, as will the implications for
blood alcohol levels at 90 days post- prevention planning for mental health
intervention of 35 percent. Overall, these data promotion and alcohol prevention on campus.
suggest that alcohol intervention can be
effective. Laurie Davidson coordinates campus
programs at the Suicide Prevention Resource
John Eggers is the director of Counseling and Center at Education Development Center, Inc.
Psychological Services and co-chair of the St. (EDC), where she is a senior project director.
Cloud State University Alcohol and Other Drug Previously, she managed projects at EDC’s
Advisory Board. Center for College Health and Safety involving
Michael Gillilan is associate vice president of alcohol and other drug prevention, mental
student life and development and chief judicial health promotion, and violence prevention.
officer and co-chair of the St. Cloud State
University Alcohol and Other Drug Advisory
Board.
Robert Reff is an assistant professor-
counselor and coordinator of alcohol
programming at St. Cloud State University.
Veterans are a small percentage (3.4 percent) College bars and nightclubs are associated
of the more than 19 million undergraduates with numerous threats to students’ health and
attending U.S. campuses, but they are a safety that extend beyond excessive drinking.
population of growing concern. Veterans are The field methodologies presented here
more likely to drink than their nonmilitary emphasize the use of objective measures to
counterparts, and wartime experiences often assess college students’ drinking behavior,
bring mental health issues that campuses other drug use, and related risk behaviors in
have difficulty managing. This session will college bar districts. Field methodologies
review data on the nature and extent of have many advantages over traditional,
alcohol, other drug, and mental health issues retrospective self-report methods for
of veterans; participants will learn about examining high-risk behaviors in naturalistic
services typically provided to veterans settings and guiding the development of
nationally and identify services available on practical prevention strategies. This poster
their campus and in the community. session presents illustrative data from recent
field studies and case examples of how these
Beth DeRicco, an associate director and the data have guided prevention efforts in a
training manager at the U.S. Department of college campus community.
Education’s Higher Education Center for
Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Virginia Dodd, an assistant professor at the
Prevention, has numerous years of experience University of Florida College of Health and
in higher education as a student affairs Human Performance, Department of Health
professional, has been project director on Education and Behavior, specializes in injury
federally and state-funded grants and prevention and social marketing.
contracts, and has held a faculty position in a Ryan O’Mara conducts research at the
graduate preparation program. University of Florida on the etiology and
prevention of addictive behaviors among
college students.
Dennis Thombs, an associate professor in the
Department of Health Education and Behavior
at the University of Florida, is president-elect
of the American Academy of Health Behavior.
His current research foci include the etiology
and prevention of addictive behaviors among
college students.
Effective violence prevention efforts require a In this session, a concrete application of the
comprehensive, coordinated set of programs, principles presented in part 1, A Comprehensive
policies, and services that are adapted to local Framework, will be presented. The session
circumstances. This session provides a set of will include a detailed narrative, with specific
principles and a strategic planning and examples, of how a campus violence
evaluation process that campus and prevention program was built from the ground
community stakeholders can use to design a up. The highlighted program, Green Dot, is a
comprehensive and effective initiative. Part 1 social change model that emphasizes
topics include assessing and prioritizing bystander engagement and the collective
problems on campus, choosing intervention power of individual choices. Content will
strategies based on research, building include review of the research, development of
administrative support, coordinating multiple the strategic plan, overview of the social
efforts, and addressing challenges. Part 2 will change and bystander model utilized and of
provide a case study illustrating how one obstacles that have been encountered.
campus carried out these principles and
processes in creating a comprehensive Dorothy Edwards, Part 2 of 2, currently serves
violence against women prevention program as the founding director of the University of
focused on culture change. Kentucky’s Violence Intervention and Prevention
Center. With a specialty in primary prevention,
Linda Langford, Part 1 of 2, is an associate she provides training, program development, and
director of the U.S. Department of Education’s consultation to universities and nonprofit
Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other organizations across the country.
Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention, formerly
serving as evaluation director and currently
leading the Higher Education Center’s violence
prevention initiatives. Her work focuses on
strategic planning, evaluation, and health
communications.
Learning Reconsidered contends that Technology has evolved over the years in its
experiential learning can be a comprehensive, use and importance to the overall public safety
holistic, and transformative activity that mission. Technology has become the silent
integrates academic learning and student partner, enhancing capabilities and helping to
development. The presenters will share stretch thin resources. Institutions of higher
research findings showing that participation in education (IHEs) across the country are
campus peer education programs can provide considering ways to leverage and integrate
students with exceptional experiential learning technology into their comprehensive planning
opportunities that transform their peer efforts. This presentation will provide an
education skills and increase their higher- overview of ongoing and emerging technology
order thinking skills, civic engagement, programs, which have significant potential to
interpersonal and intrapersonal competence, support federal, state, and local public safety
appreciation of diversity, and educational entities, including IHEs. The presentation also
gains. Participants will learn how to connect will cover several of the public safety
the peer education experience intentionally technology programs of the U.S. Department
with student learning outcomes as part of of Justice’s National Institute of Justice and
comprehensive campus health education and how IHEs can leverage this work to enhance
prevention programs. their emergency management efforts.
Ann Quinn-Zobeck, director of education and Michael O’Shea is a program manager for the
training for the BACCHUS Network, previously U.S. Department of Justice assigned to the
coordinated alcohol and other drug prevention National Institute of Justice’s Office of Science
programs and advised an award-winning peer and Technology. Before joining the Department
education group at the University of Northern of Justice, he was a senior instructor of police
Colorado. at the State of Maryland Law Enforcement
Andrea Zelinko is the director of alcohol Training Academy and taught community
abuse and impaired driving prevention policing for Johns Hopkins University. Prior to
initiatives for the BACCHUS Network and the that, he retired from law enforcement in the
coordinator of the Coalition of Colorado state of Kansas.
Campus Alcohol and Drug Educators.
This session will guide participants through Dolores Cimini. See W-3, page 52.
the various federal agencies’ discretionary Mitchell Earleywine, associate professor of
grants processes from beginning to end. psychology at the University at Albany,
Participants will gain a better understanding of conducts research and teaching predominantly
the discretionary grants processes, including in the areas of personality and addictive
absolute priorities, selection criteria, and the behaviors. He is on the advisory board of
peer review process. Participants also will be Behavior Therapy’s Clinical Supplement, one
provided with a series of tips to assist them in of the new journals in the field of behavior
the development and organization of their therapy.
grant applications. The grants to be discussed Joseph Monserrat, a staff psychologist at the
focus on the prevention of high-risk drinking University at Albany’s Counseling Center, has
and violent behavior among college students served as the project coordinator for Albany’s
(U.S. Department of Education), emergency NIAAA Rapid Response to College Drinking
management in higher education (U.S. Problems grant project.
Department of Education), and suicide Joyce Dewitt-Parker is a sport psychologist
prevention (Substance Abuse and Mental and university counseling center liaison to the
Health Services Administration). Department of Athletics at the University at
Albany. She has taught courses in the
Dana Carr. See TM-5, page 50. university’s School of Education and
Representative from the U.S. Department of conducted research on predictors of college
Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse success for African-American first-year
and Mental Health Services Administration. students.
Gloria DiFulvio. See P-3, page 39. This two-part workshop will cover the U.S.
Peggy Glider. See W-3, page 52. Department of Education-U.S. Secret Service
Threat Assessment Guide to model processes
to identify, intervene, and prevent acts of
violent behavior. Emphasis also will include
W-26 Building Coalitions: Creating
how to identify students who are potentially
Consensus Through Community dangerous and at risk of targeted violence.
Forums (two-part session) The session will offer suggestions for
addressing threatening events and describe
Campus-community coalitions have shown protocols for deciding when to refer the
effectiveness in creating positive situation to local law enforcement for a threat
environmental change and are recommended assessment investigation. The presenters will
by the NIAAA, the Higher Education Center, provide the K–12 context for the existing
and others. This is a two-part workshop for ED/USSS study and will explain the contextual
AODV practitioners on the essential implications for the higher education
ingredients of coalition building based on community throughout the presentation.
lessons learned from Lincoln, Nebraska’s NU
Directions coalition, a 2006 Model Program. Arthur Kelly III (ret.) serves as a consultant
The workshop will offer tools for organizing for the U.S. Department of Education’s Office
and implementing community forums in a of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. His areas of
wide range of formats, including bar walks, expertise include threat assessment and
study circles, and large-scale community targeted violence. He began his law
forums. Specific techniques and lessons enforcement career as a patrol officer with the
learned on organizing the forum, processing Hartford, Conn., police department. After
multiple perspectives, and creating action leaving Hartford, he served as chief of police
from the discussions will be provided. of Sanford, Maine; commissioner of public
safety of North Adams, Mass.; chief of police of
Linda Major. See plenary session speakers, Saint Joseph, Mo.; superintendent of police of
page 25. Peoria, Ill.; and chief of police of New Bedford,
Ian Newman is Wesley C. Meierhenry Mass., where he retired in August 2003.
distinguished professor of educational William Modzeleski. See plenary session
psychology and director of the Nebraska speakers, page 26.
Center for Alcohol and Drug Abuse at the