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CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Concurrent Sessions
Descriptions

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Sexual Violence Prevention and
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POSTER SESSIONS P-2
Intervention: What University
P-1 Drink of the Week: Exploring Professionals Should Know
Mixed Messages Within About the Etiology of Sexually
Student Media Assaultive Behavior
An Arizona State University (ASU) student Drawing from the broader criminal justice and
publication produces a weekly article titled psychological literature, this presentation will
“Drink of the Week” (DOTW). DOTW authors provide university professionals with the most
create a drink recipe with the highest possible current thinking about sexual violence
alcohol content (while maintaining bearable perpetrators in our communities and on our
taste) and promote that recipe to students. campuses. The presenter will discuss the
ASU Wellness and Health Promotion staff do importance of campuses assembling
not condone the recipe; in an effort to collaborative working groups to guide efforts
decrease the promotion of high-risk drinking, to prevent and respond to acts of sexual
they prepared charts and graphs to illustrate violence. Models exploring the development
standard size drinks, the potential blood and categorization of rape behavior will be
alcohol concentration (BAC) for the drink discussed, and a critical review of the rape
recipes in the DOTW, and potential prevention literature will be offered. Finally,
consequences associated with BAC levels. participants will have an opportunity to
ASU is using these data to advocate change in consider how their campuses are
the DOTW articles, create a relationship with incorporating this poster session information
the student media, and discourage into their prevention and intervention efforts.
contradictory messages regarding campus
norms. Robert Scholz, a licensed marriage and family
therapist, currently works at Pepperdine
Aaron Hess serves with ASU Wellness and University’s Counseling Center. He has
Health Promotion as a research assistant on a directed several sex offender treatment
federal grant to reduce dangerous drinking. programs, co-authored a book on sex offender
Brynn Hvidston, a health educator at ASU, is intervention, and provided numerous
currently aiding in the implementation of a presentations nationally to stakeholders in the
U.S. Department of Education grant focused field of relationship violence.
on reducing high-risk drinking among the
freshman population.

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P-3 Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse P-4 BASICS Redux: Effective

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and Violence Prevention: Strategies for Implementation of
Findings From the Senior BASICS by an External Service
Administrators Survey Provider
Colleges face growing numbers of judicial
Several national reports have outlined effective system referrals and competing staff time
or promising strategies when addressing commitments. This session describes the
prevention in a college population. In spring State University of New York at Oswego’s
2006 and 2008, the U.S. Department of unique implementation of Brief Alcohol
Education’s Higher Education Center for Screening and Intervention for College
Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Students (BASICS) delivered by an external
Prevention launched a Web-based survey of contractor. Evaluation of the protocol was
campus prevention practices to a random required as a provision of the contract.
representative sample of administrators at Results show promise for reducing the total
two- and four-year colleges and universities number of drinks per week. The presenters
across the United States. The purpose of the will provide evidence of the effectiveness of
survey was to understand the type and scope the program, discuss implications for program
of prevention practices being conducted. This refinement, describe how program elements
presentation will discuss results of the survey, can be replicated in other settings, and
with a focus on the extent to which campuses discuss cost-effective implementation with
are using evidence-based approaches to fidelity to the model.
prevention. Implications of this research will
be discussed. Thad Mantaro is the alcohol and other drug
prevention program coordinator at the State
Olayinka Akinola is the evaluation research University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego.
and development assistant at the U.S. Bob Schell is the statistician and student
Department of Education’s Higher Education affairs administrator responsible for the
Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and evaluation of SUNY Oswego’s BASICS
Violence Prevention. program.
Gloria DiFulvio is a research assistant Erica Vinson is the graduate assistant for the
professor at the University of Massachusetts Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Program at
Amherst and senior evaluator for the Higher SUNY Oswego and has been critical to
Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug implementation of this new BASICS program.
Abuse and Violence Prevention. She has over
15 years of experience in college health
program planning, implementation, and
evaluation.

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Employing Parents as Partners in
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P-5 sexual violence. Recommendations for
Prevention in the Upper Midwest incorporating these findings into motivational
interviewing and other campus-based
This presentation will provide an overview of prevention programming are provided. This
Project North Dakota Freshmen Initiative, work was funded in part by the Network’s
which targeted first-year students and their 2006 Biennial Student Research Award.
parents at all 11 North Dakota University
System institutions. This presentation will not Katherine Luke’s research at the University of
only share the results of this research but also Michigan focuses on gender and race in
will give attendees an overview of how to alcohol and other drug use and sexual
successfully conduct research as a prevention violence.
practitioner.

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

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P-8 Beyond Getting High: The Other P-9 Sorting It Out: Discerning and

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Reasons Students Abuse Designing Effective Interventions
Other Drugs by Motivation and Target Group
Differences in Prescription
The emerging trend of “brain drug use” Drug Abuse
(abusing stimulants to enhance mental energy
and stamina) among students has captured Abuse of prescription drugs by college
the attention of campus leaders nationwide. students is a growing and challenging
Students are increasingly abusing other drugs problem. How do we design effective
for reasons other than to get high. This interventions that reach the minority of
presentation will review the scope of the students who are abusing these drugs? The
problem, focusing on these and other presenters will share research from their
emerging reasons students abuse other drugs, campus and discuss the motives that correlate
and examine tactics and strategies campuses with high-risk use and important differences in
may use to address this threat. Participants patterns of drug use based on gender, race,
will learn how to use the environmental academic achievement, and participation in
management framework to build upon their athletics, a fraternity or sorority, and the
existing prevention efforts to address these university honors program. Attendees will join
unique reasons students abuse other drugs. in a discussion of how to create successful
interventions for target populations in order to
Amber Dillard is the information services affect prescription drug abuse on campuses.
specialist at the U.S. Department of
Education’s Higher Education Center for Rebecca Caldwell is the director of substance
Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence abuse and violence prevention at the
Prevention. She provides technical assistance University of North Carolina Wilmington
and other information services support and (UNCW).
relays current alcohol and other drug abuse Aimee Hourigan is the assistant director of
and violence (AODV) prevention news daily to campus prevention at CROSSROADS, UNCW’s
professionals nationwide. substance abuse prevention and education
Mary Hill coordinates higher education program.
statewide initiatives for prevention in Texas
and serves as a member of the Texas Drug
Demand Reduction Advisory Committee. She
is the former senior administrator-dean of
students and coach at West Texas A&M
University, where she was responsible for
developing and enforcing substance use
policies.

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P-10 Ten Years of National Collegiate P-11 From Theory to Practice:
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Athletic Association CHOICES Application of Social Norms


Grants: Integrating Collegiate Theory to Addiction and Recovery
Athletics Into Alcohol Education
Programming The StepUP program at Augsburg College’s
Oren Gateway Center provides recovery
Because collegiate student athletes support to students with diagnosed alcohol
disproportionately use alcohol in comparison and other drug dependence. StepUP is the
with non-student athletes, campuses often largest recovering community housed by
seek innovative strategies to target and residence life in the country with a social
incorporate athletes in alcohol abuse norm of recovery. The community of recovery
prevention. The National Collegiate Athletic continues to grow, providing support and
Association (NCAA) CHOICES three-year recognition from the college and integrating
grants provide institutions with the through the Division of Student Affairs. Last
opportunity to conduct collaborative, year, the program began assisting Minnesota
campuswide alcohol education programming. colleges interested in developing recovery
This poster session will highlight successes support. St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minn., has
and lessons learned from a synthesis of begun to make headway in its program. The
reports and interviews from 114 NCAA presenters will share why their program
CHOICES grantees by discussing various ways works, as well as program data, lessons
in which the programs have been developed, learned, and emerging partnerships with
implemented, and evaluated. The presentation colleges seeking recovery support services.
will focus on the integration of student
athletes and athletics departments into Joy Halstead is the recovery school
campus prevention efforts and systematic coordinator for the College of St. Scholastica
evaluation of program effectiveness. in Duluth, Minn.
Patrice Salmeri directs the StepUP program
Julie Clark is a research and evaluation at Augsburg College. StepUP supports
associate at George Mason University’s Center students in recovery as they pursue academic
for the Advancement of Public Health. Her success.
research topics cover adolescent and
collegiate alcohol consumption and policy. She
also evaluates existing health-related
programs.
Mary Wilfert, the NCAA associate director of
health and safety, administers drug-education
and drug-testing programs and works to
promote policies and develop resources for
healthy life choices for student athletes. She
has worked in the health education field for 30
years to empower individuals to make
informed choices for lifelong health and
success.

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P-12 Less Can Be More: How One Karla Castillo works at San Francisco State

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Campus Achieved Double-digit University’s the SAFE Place and CEASE as a
prevention education specialist and counselor,
Reductions in Heavy Drinking
addressing issues of sexual violence and AOD
abuse.
The presentation will illustrate implementation
Ismael de Guzman is the men’s prevention
of the Safety, Environment, and Education
education specialist on sexual assault at San
(SEE) Center at the University of Tennessee,
Francisco State University.
Knoxville. The presenters will highlight the 34
percent reduction in heavy drinking and the 52
percent reduction in frequent heavy drinking
since the program began in 2005. Participants P-14 Salvia Divinorum: Effects and
will learn of SEE’s strategic planning efforts, Use Among College Students
which identified two prevention initiatives
(increasing consistency of alcohol policy Salvia divinorum (salvia) is a plant that
enforcement in university residence halls and appears to be enjoying increased popularity as
a social norms media campaign). Inherent in a legal hallucinogen in many jurisdictions
the approach was to “do a few things very within the United States. Use of the Internet
well” rather than initiate more programs than has helped spread information and access to
could be implemented with fidelity. this plant as well as extracts of the
psychoactive compound salvinorin A it
Dan Reilly is the director of the SEE Center at contains. This presentation is intended to
the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He educate campus administrators and
gained experience from positions as the prevention professionals about salvia
director of substance abuse prevention divinorum. Results of a campus survey, as
services at the University of Rhode Island and well as content analysis of YouTube videos,
as an alcohol and other drug prevention will be presented and discussed within the
specialist at the University of Arizona. context of salvia’s legal and policy vacuum.

Jason Daniel is a graduate research assistant


P-13 Act Like a Man: Examining at San Diego State University.
James Lange is San Diego State University’s
Gendered Violence and the Link
coordinator of AOD initiatives and director of
to Alcohol and Other Drugs on AOD initiatives research. He has published his
College Campuses research in leading scientific journals,
including articles on community responses to
The presenters will share a summary of some of underage drinking, designated driver use,
the research findings on the correlation between youth binge drinking, drunk driving and
AOD abuse and sexual assault and describe boating enforcement, seat belt use, and
prevention efforts that focus on addressing root roadside breath-test surveys.
causes of sexual violence and problems related to
AOD. One of the exercises the presenters will
discuss that begins to explore and address these
issues is called “Act Like a Man.” This exercise
helps us to understand the socialization of men
and how male violence and AOD work to sustain
a system of oppression for males and females.

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P-15 Utilizing Community for P-16 Pre- and Post-Matriculation
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Prevention: Curricular Infusion Alcohol Consumption by First-


in Learning Communities year College Students:
Implications for Prevention
How can a living-learning community based Practice
on themes of alcohol use and gender identity
influence students’ attitudes and behaviors This study investigates changes in student
related to alcohol? Join the presenters as they drinking during the pre- and post-
share the results of their study exploring the matriculation periods for first-year college
effects of a theme-based living-learning students. In 2006, more than 150,000
community compared with results of freshmen students from 169 U.S. colleges and
curricular intervention with non-themed universities completed an online drinking
learning communities and first-year seminars. survey prior to taking an online education
They also will share their success and course. The percentage of student abstainers
challenges in designing and implementing a steadily decreased in the weeks leading up to
learning community related to these topics. the first day of classes and then fell
Participants are invited to share their best precipitously during the first weeks of college.
practices for partnering with academic The percentage of student heavy drinkers rose
colleagues in behalf of effective prevention in somewhat during pre-matriculation but then
the classroom. doubled once classes started. These findings
underscore the importance of implementing
Rebecca Caldwell. See P-9, page 41. environmental-level interventions and other
Aimee Hourigan. See P-9, page 41. prevention efforts both prior to and during the
Matthew Mayhew is an assistant professor of first few weeks after first-year students arrive
higher education at the Steinhardt School of on campus.
Culture, Education, and Human Development
at New York University. Dessa Bergen-Cico is an assistant professor
of health and wellness at Syracuse University.
An expert in population-based prevention and
health promotion, she has served as an
evaluator for several substance use prevention
programs and currently serves as an
evaluation consultant to Outside the
Classroom.
William DeJong is a professor of social and
behavioral sciences at the Boston University
School of Public Health. He also serves as
director of research and development for
Outside the Classroom and is a former
director of the Higher Education Center for
Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence
Prevention.

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P-17 Less May Be More: Reducing P-18 Which Comes First: Alcohol Use

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High-risk Behaviors of Sanctioned or Depression? New Findings and
Students Utilizing a Onetime 90- Their Implications for Campus
minute Intervention Format Prevention

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.

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P-19 Alcohol, Other Drug, and Mental P-20 Field Methodology for
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Health Issues of Veterans on Assessing Late-night Drinking,


Campus: Scope and Nature of the Drug Use, and Related Risk
Problem Behaviors in College Bar Districts

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.

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P-21 They Tried to Make Me Go to P-22 Reducing the Risk of 21st-

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Rehab: How Celebrity Substance birthday Drinking: What Do We
Abuse in the Media Affects Know? What Do We Need to
Students’ Decisions About AOD Know?
and What We Can Do About It
Twenty-first birthday drinking is particularly
Popular media are saturated with images and dangerous and steeped in tradition (e.g., 21
news of celebrities using alcohol and other for 21 and power hour). Administrators,
drugs. Reality shows, gossip Web sites, and tavern owners, and lawmakers have
tabloids convey AOD abuse as routine for implemented creative strategies to curb 21st-
celebrities. Observing role models engaging in birthday drinking, including birthday cards,
substance abuse can create or reinforce power hour bans, over-serving ordinances,
unhealthy beliefs, undermining prevention and medical amnesty policies. This session
programming on campuses by fostering reviews the literature regarding the
norms that AOD abuse is glamorous, sexy, effectiveness of these strategies and reports
and the “in” thing to do. Campus prevention findings from a National Institute on Alcohol
professionals can use teachable moments of Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)-funded study
celebrity AOD abuse in the media to teach that tested a 21st-birthday personalized
students to think critically about such normative feedback intervention. The
coverage, challenge misperceptions, presentation provides recommendations for
reinvigorate prevention programs, advocate campuses considering implementing
for responsible media, and facilitate treatment interventions to address this issue and
for students battling addiction. recommends a comprehensive approach, as
opposed to an individual strategy.
Kellie Anderson is associate project director
of the training program at the U.S. Department Laura Oster-Aaland oversees campus alcohol
of Education’s Higher Education Center for and other drug abuse prevention programs at
Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence North Dakota State University (NDSU). She
Prevention. She creates and administers has contributed to journal articles on alcohol-
online trainings and researches and writes related research and is the principal
publications and Web content. She has been investigator on a three-year NIAAA-funded
at the Higher Education Center since 2003, program addressing high-risk drinking among
with much of her work focusing on health freshmen and 21st-birthday celebrants on the
communications. NDSU campus.
Jane Vangsness. See P-5, page 40.

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TM-2 Outside the Norm: Prevention
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TOWN MEETINGS
Issues Facing Nonresidential
TM-1 Exploring the Implications of Colleges
Medical Amnesty Policies on
Campus Practitioners working at nonresidential IHEs
often feel that current prevention research,
Medical amnesty policies have emerged as a materials, and strategies focus primarily on
strategy that some institutions of higher traditional students and residential campuses,
education (IHEs) have implemented as part of whereas prevention approaches at nonresidential
their comprehensive prevention efforts. These colleges and universities must be tailored to
policies are often designed to increase the meet the unique needs of their students, many
chances that students will call for help when of whom go to school part-time, commute to
faced with an alcohol-related emergency. This campus, and are older than students attending
presentation will describe the various issues residential schools. This session examines
of this controversial approach and present unique alcohol, other drug, and violence issues
viewpoints from practitioners from several that may face nonresidential colleges and
IHEs who have recently considered or universities, including challenges encountered
implemented a medical amnesty policy. by practitioners and effective prevention
strategies.
Lena Edmunds has over eight years’
experience working in the prevention field and Beth DeRicco (moderator). See P-19, page 46.
has coordinated the AOD prevention program James Lange. See P-14, page 43.
at the University of Wyoming (UW) since Wendy Seegers has been the program
2005. She helped develop and also manager for seven of the 13 University of
administers the UW Suicide Prevention Wisconsin (UW) colleges since 1998. The UW
Lifesavers Initiative. colleges are nonresidential freshman and
Roy Kammer is an assistant professor at sophomore campuses within the UW System.
Minnesota State University and serves as state She also serves as a regional director for the
coordinator (STC) for the Network Addressing Network Addressing Collegiate Alcohol and
Collegiate Alcohol and Other Drug Issues, Other Drug Issues, representing Wisconsin
representing Minnesota. and Illinois.
Terry Koons is associate director for health
education and wellness at Ohio University and
STC for the Network Addressing Alcohol and TM-3 Terminology Issues in Prevention:
Other Drug Issues, representing Ohio. Promoting Communication
Linda Major (moderator). See plenary session
speakers, page 25. At town meetings every year since the
Department’s 2002 national meeting,
participants have joined in a lively discussion
on the terminology used in alcohol and other
drug abuse prevention, especially such
controversial terms as binge drinking and
harm reduction. The terminology used in
alcohol and other drug (AOD) research,
treatment, prevention, and policy has a

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potential effect on what people think and feel TM-4 Examining the Ins and Outs of

CONCURRENT SESSIONS DESCRIPTIONS


about the problems related to AOD use, Online Alcohol Abuse Education
while also defining the boundaries of
Tools
potential solutions to consider. (A draft
terminology guideline is posted online at
In recent years, practitioners involved in
http://www.silvergategroup.com/terminology.)
preventing alcohol and other drug abuse
This town meeting will consider the role that
among college students have an increasing
terminology and language play in developing
variety of online education tools for students
communication strategies to advance
from which to choose to assist in their efforts.
environmental management approaches to
This facilitated and interactive session
alcohol and other drug abuse and violence
includes an overview of several common
prevention on campuses and in surrounding
features of online resources and an approach
communities. In addition, in the context of the
for considering online tools in the context of a
increases reported of prescription and over-
comprehensive prevention program, as well as
the-counter drug use, this town meeting will
the decision-making processes used by three
consider terminology that distinguishes
practitioners to help determine the most
between use, nonmedical use, misuse, abuse,
appropriate online education tool needed for
diversion, and the like. Participants will be
prevention initiatives on their respective
encouraged to discuss their experiences in
campuses.
developing communication campaigns,
including successes and failures, during this
Gail Farmer, director of Wellness, Central
town meeting. A panel of individuals who have
Washington University, piloted a Web-based
been part of the terminology project since
alcohol prevention project in 2007–08. The
2002 will facilitate the town meeting.
program will be mandatory for all incoming
freshmen this year. She chairs the Washington
William DeJong. See P-16, page 44.
State College Coalition for Substance Abuse
Robert Denniston is the director of the
Prevention and serves on the Network
National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign at
Addressing Collegiate Alcohol and Other Drug
the White House Office of National Drug
Issues.
Control Policy.
Betsy Foy is assistant director for health
Linda Costigan Lederman is dean of social
services at Washington University in St. Louis
sciences and professor of health and human
and serves as STC for the Network Addressing
communication at Arizona State University.
Alcohol and Other Drug Issues, representing
Barbara Ryan (moderator) is the editor of
Missouri.
Prevention File: Alcohol, Tobacco and Other
Virginia Mackay-Smith (moderator). See
Drugs. She also is a senior adviser with the
plenary session speakers, page 25.
U.S. Department of Education’s Higher
Karen Moses is the director of Wellness and
Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug
Health Promotion at Arizona State University’s
Abuse and Violence Prevention, where she
Tempe campus, with 20 years’ experience in
edits Catalyst.
college health promotion. She serves as a
regional director for the Network Addressing
Collegiate Alcohol and Other Drug Issues,
representing Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.

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TM-5 Addressing Mental Health TM-6 What Campuses Should Know:
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Issues on College Campuses Practical and Legal Experience


From Violent Incidents in K–12
In light of the tragic shootings at Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University This session will feature two attorneys—a
(Virginia Tech), Northern Illinois University, former U.S. attorney and a school district’s
and other schools across the nation, the special counsel—who were heavily involved in
attention to mental health issues on college the investigations and legal activities
campuses has risen. This session is designed connected with a high school shooting in
to identify some of the emerging and evolving Minnesota. Hear their compelling experience
issues in mental health at colleges and in the aftermath of our country’s third largest
universities and to examine various strategies school shooting, and how they came together
by which IHEs are addressing these issues. in a critical dialogue about safety and the
importance of involving community partners
Dana Carr (moderator) is the director of the to prevent violence. Learn how this experience
U.S. Department of Education’s Office of and partnering approach can be integrated
Safe and Drug-Free Schools’ Health, Mental into your higher education emergency
Health, Environmental Health, and Physical management planning to actively recognize
Education team. The team oversees several possible violence before it occurs, and have in
grant programs, including two focused on place an appropriate “all-hazards” plan should
improving access to mental health services for an incident occur.
America's students.
Spencer Deakin is the director of counseling Thomas Heffelfinger, a partner at Best &
at Frostburg State University and a licensed Flanagan LLP, has served as an assistant
psychologist. He is an experienced counseling Hennepin County attorney, as an assistant U.S.
center director, with a strong interest in the attorney in Minnesota and, on two separate
substance abuse prevention field. He recently occasions, as the presidentially appointed U.S.
served as a member of the University System attorney for the state of Minnesota. In all of
of Maryland Workgroup on Campus Safety those positions, he regularly conducted and
and Security. supervised the investigation of major state and
Gina Firth is the associate dean of students at federal felony offenses. As an investigative
the University of Tampa. Previously, she was coordinator, he has supervised the work of
director of the Office of Alcohol and Drug every major federal, state, and local law
Education at the University of Notre Dame and enforcement agency operating in Minnesota.
is a regional director for the Network William Modzeleski (moderator). See plenary
Addressing Collegiate Alcohol and Other Drug session speakers, page 26.
Issues. Shamus O’Meara is a partner with Johnson &
John Watson directs alcohol, other drug, and Condon, P.A., in Minneapolis, representing
health education with the CHOICES Center at school districts, businesses, and local
Drexel University and is a regional director for governments in complex liability, construction,
the Network Addressing Collegiate Alcohol and and transactional matters. He serves as a
Other Drug Issues. mediator and arbitrator for construction and
commercial disputes and presents nationally
on school safety and construction topics. He
has been recognized as a Minnesota Lawyer

50 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION’S 2008 NATIONAL MEETING


Attorney of the Year and Minnesota Law and WORKSHOPS

CONCURRENT SESSIONS DESCRIPTIONS


Politics Super Lawyer. He serves on boards
for facilities management, indoor air, W-1 Expanding the Scope of
developmental disabilities, and legal defense,
Prevention: Changing Prevention
and on a legislative school safety and
emergency management task force. Strategies to Impact High-risk
Behaviors

This workshop will describe the transformation


of a decades-old alcohol and other drug
prevention office, focusing on the utilization of
evidence-based strategies. The presentation
will feature an open dialogue on former
programs and services offered through the
Office of Alcohol & Drug Programs, while
focusing on the process of transitioning to a
new office known as Substance Abuse
Prevention and Education. The presentation
also will highlight key campus and community
collaborative efforts and actions of a new
High-Risk Behavior Task Force and emphasize
the role of tragic events in shaping the new
prevention strategy.

Anna Edwards is director for student services


at the University of South Carolina. Her
responsibilities include supervising both the
substance abuse prevention efforts and the
off-campus community-based initiatives
through the Department of Student Life.
Larrell Wilkinson is the substance abuse
prevention and education director at the
University of South Carolina.

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W-2 Sexual Assault Reporting
CONCURRENT SESSIONS DESCRIPTIONS
York; University of Arizona; and the University
Options in Higher Education of Massachusetts Amherst. The three
institutions will discuss recruitment strategies,
How can institutions of higher education best populations served, screening tools and
respond to and support students who procedures, implementation of BMIs, and
experience sexual assault? For survivors, evaluation tools, strategies, and outcomes.
indecision around the desire to initiate a police Major accomplishments and challenges at
investigation or university judicial hearing each of the institutions will be addressed.
frequently serves as a deterrent to seeking
assistance or support after an assault. Dolores Cimini has provided leadership since
University reporting options that expand 1982 on a number of federal, state, and
beyond the standard police investigation or private grant-funded programs and is
judicial hearing, particularly anonymous or currently the project director for more than
confidential options, are one alternative being $3.2 million in federal grants addressing high-
explored by colleges. Drawing from interviews risk drinking prevention and intervention. She
with higher education administrators, this is the director of the nationally recognized
presentation will cover the current landscape Middle Earth Peer Assistance Program at the
of sexual assault reporting and provide a University at Albany, State University of New
synopsis of the federal legislation that affects York.
sexual assault reporting options. Gloria DiFulvio. See P-3, page 39.
Diane Fedorchak directs the BASICS
Kathryn Guilfoyle, Northwestern University, program at the University of Massachusetts
has been active in the sexual assault Amherst and is responsible for the overall
prevention and sexual health education fields implementation and supervision of the
for six years and has experience in victim program. She has worked in the health
advocacy, community organizing, curriculum education department at the University of
development, and research. Massachusetts Amherst since 2000,
specializing in alcohol and other drug abuse
prevention.
Peggy Glider is coordinator for evaluation and
W-3 Screening and Brief
research with the University of Arizona
Interventions to Reduce High- Campus Health Service. She has worked in
risk Drinking: Recruitment, alcohol and other drug abuse prevention for
Implementation, and Evaluation more than 20 years, serving as principal
(two-part session) investigator and evaluator on many federal
and state grants. She provides evaluation
This workshop will describe implementation technical assistance to many colleges
and evaluation of screening and brief nationally.
motivational interventions (BMIs) to reduce Sally Linowski has nearly 20 years of
high-risk drinking among students as part of experience in substance abuse prevention and
comprehensive prevention strategies. The teaching in higher education. She co-chairs
theory and supportive research will be the CCC at the University of Massachusetts
reviewed and practical tips for recruitment, Amherst and is principal investigator of a
implementation, and evaluation will be grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental
provided based on lessons learned at the Health Services Administration that funds the
University at Albany, State University of New BASICS program on policy violators.

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Lynn Reyes is a dually licensed clinical social W-5 Creating a Safe and Healthy

CONCURRENT SESSIONS DESCRIPTIONS


worker and substance abuse counselor with Campus: Incorporating Effective
more than 21 years’ experience. She has
Strategies Into Your Current
adapted and implemented BASICS at the
University of Arizona over six years and is the Prevention Efforts
program coordinator of the Substance Abuse (two-part session)
and Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA) and of the U.S. Department of Now, more than ever, it is extremely important
Education grants to test BASICS with the to focus on the most practical and proven
general student body and fraternity and solutions available to colleges and communities.
sorority members in particular. However, identifying, implementing, and
evaluating these activities are often difficult
tasks. This two-part session provides an
W-4 Who and What Are on Your overview of recommended evidence-based
approaches. Participants conduct an inventory
Campus? Prevention Through
of activities that will show where their
Strategic Planning and prevention programs currently are and where
Partnerships their efforts should be focused. Learn whether
you are developing, implementing, and testing
It is essential for all campus safety officials to practical and feasible solutions that support a
be aware of the potential threats against—and safe and healthy campus environment.
those emanating from—their colleges and Resources for implementing and evaluating
universities in order to develop effective short- promising approaches will be provided.
term and strategic plans to mitigate those
threats. The success of campus safety plans Beth DeRicco. See P-19, page 46.
will be commensurate with the strength of the Thomas Workman is an assistant professor of
partnerships that exist within the campus communication studies at the University of
community and with surrounding Houston-Downtown (UHD) and codirector of
communities. Planning assumptions must the UHD Center for Public Deliberation. From
also be examined realistically in order to 1999 to 2007, he worked with the NU
reasonably predict outcomes during plan Directions coalition at the University of
implementation. This session will identify Nebraska-Lincoln. He is currently the chair of
known threats associated with colleges and the AOD Knowledge Community for the
universities, look at the key ingredients for National Association of Student Personnel
successful partnerships, and afford an Administrators (NASPA).
opportunity to discuss the validity of common
planning assumptions.

Jeff Allison is on detail from the Department


of Homeland Security to serve as the special
adviser on campus public safety in the FBI’s
Office of Law Enforcement Coordination.

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W-6 Best Practices in Campus Threat W-7 COMPASS Roadmap:
CONCURRENT SESSIONS DESCRIPTIONS

Assessment and Management Destination Health

Campus personnel frequently deal with Healthy Expectations is an innovative and


students and community members who deal proactive approach designed to reduce drug
with their situations in volatile and and alcohol abuse by addressing many of the
maladaptive ways. These behaviors can range root causes underlying substance abuse.
from classroom disruptions to acts of violence Providing first-year students with quality
that devastate the community. In this session, resources, guidance, and confidence to make
participants will learn to better identify and healthy decisions, this approach and the
manage threatening behavior through COMPASS resource emphasize life health
collaborative approaches with other campus planning within the framework of 31 topics.
professionals. Participants will gain Recipient of a U.S. Department of Education
understanding of the processes and dynamics 2006 Model Program award, its implementation
involved in the pathways to violence. They guide with DVD includes videotaped footage
also will understand how to develop and and program resources. This session
implement proactive, multidisciplinary highlights the eight steps of the COMPASS
approaches to threat assessment and Roadmap and illustrates numerous strategies,
management, leading to safer and more insights, student testimonials, and evaluation
effective resolutions of problematic situations. results that show initial reductions in drug and
alcohol use.
Eugene Deisinger is a licensed psychologist
and a certified peace officer and serves as David Anderson, George Mason University,
deputy chief of police at Iowa State University. teaches courses, conducts local and national
He has served as the primary threat manager research, and initiates student- and
since the university implemented a community-based initiatives to address drug
multidisciplinary team in 1994. He is a and alcohol abuse. His work on college drug
nationally recognized expert on threat and alcohol abuse prevention spans 32 years.
assessment and management. He leads numerous research, training,
evaluation, resource development, and
strategic planning initiatives on drug and
alcohol abuse and holistic health.
Devashish Chhetri, George Mason University,
served as a student leader, peer consultant,
and on-site coordinator of LeaderShape.

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W-8a Violence Prevention in Higher W-8b Violence Prevention in Higher

CONCURRENT SESSIONS DESCRIPTIONS


Education: A Comprehensive Education: A Case Study
Framework (two-part session) (Part 2 of 2)

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.

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W-9 Current Research From the W-10 Behind the Scenes: The Parent
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National Association of College Role in Alcohol Education


and University Business Officers
Students make choices about drinking based
This session will highlight recent developments not only on peer behaviors and easy access to
in a national study conducted by the National alcohol but also on personal values and family
Association of College and University Business history. Research shows that today’s students
Officers and nine of the nation’s leading higher are in close contact with parents; almost all
education associations on campus safety and students talk with their parents one or more
security. The study assesses the wide range of times weekly and they discuss their social
risks common to college and university choices. If they have the right information,
campuses. It explores key safety and security parents can be important partners in a
threats and helps campuses prepare comprehensive alcohol education program.
management plans for prevention, preparedness, This session will present the theory behind
response, and recovery related to potentially involving parents, provide evidence of
devastating events, including natural disasters, effectiveness of parent involvement, and
infectious diseases, shootings, and terrorist and include discussion of how colleges and
cyber attacks. universities are bringing parents into the
picture.
James Hyatt is currently president of the World
Institute for Disaster Risk Management, Inc. Jodi Dworkin, assistant professor in the
From 2004 to January 2008, he served as the Department of Family Social Science at the
executive vice president and chief operating University of Minnesota, focuses her
officer of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and research, outreach, and engagement efforts
State University. Prior to coming to Virginia on developing resources to help parents
Tech, he held the position of vice chancellor for understand normative adolescent and college
budget and finance and chief financial officer at student development and communicate with
the University of California, Berkeley. their adolescent and college students around
risk-taking behaviors.
Marjorie Savage, director of the University of
Minnesota Parent program, has worked with
parents of college students for 15 years. In
recent years, she has used Web technology to
deliver information to parents on critical
issues, such as college mental health and
student drinking.

56 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION’S 2008 NATIONAL MEETING


W-11 Learning-centered Outcomes in W-12 Technology in Emergency

CONCURRENT SESSIONS DESCRIPTIONS


Peer Education Management for Higher Education

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.

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W-13 Federal Agencies Panel:
CONCURRENT SESSIONS DESCRIPTIONS
in alcohol use and associated negative
Discretionary Grants Process consequences in particular.

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.

W-14 Project Winning STEPS: A W-15 U.S. Department of Education’s


Screening and Brief Intervention FY 2008 Models of Exemplary,
Approach Addressing Alcohol Effective, and Promising Alcohol
Use Among Student Athletes or Other Drug Abuse Prevention
Programs on College Campuses
This workshop will focus on the development Grantees Showcase
and implementation of a screening and brief
intervention (SBI) strategy designed to be The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of
responsive to the unique needs of student Safe and Drug-Free Schools conducted a grant
athletes. The presenters will compare and competition in fiscal year 2008 seeking to
contrast the features of individual versus identify models of exemplary, effective, and
team-delivered athlete-specific intervention promising alcohol or other drug abuse
elements addressing student athlete alcohol prevention programs at colleges and
use. Additionally, they will examine how the universities and to disseminate information
integration of athletic performance-based about those programs to other campuses
feedback can enhance both intervention where similar efforts may be adopted. This
effectiveness and student athlete motivation session highlights the efforts of this year’s
for behavior change in general and reductions award recipients and gives attendees the

58 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION’S 2008 NATIONAL MEETING


opportunity to learn how those efforts may be (PIRE), serving as part of the external

CONCURRENT SESSIONS DESCRIPTIONS


replicated on their respective campuses. evaluation team for projects at the University
at Albany, State University of New York, and
Amalia Cuervo (moderator) is an education the University of Maryland.
program specialist at the U.S. Department of Betty Straub is a senior director and research
Education’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free scientist with PIRE who continues to get
Schools. She serves as the lead for the people enthusiastic about evaluating programs
models initiative in higher education and as quantitatively and qualitatively in a wide
the staff representative on the Federal variety of settings. She also manages the U.S.
Interagency Committee to Reduce Underage Department of Education’s training and
Drinking. She has managed a number of technical assistance center for character
national technical assistance centers aimed at education, which focuses on increasing
preventing school violence and drug abuse. rigorous evaluations for grantees.
Grantee Representatives.

W-17 Incorporating AODV Efforts Into


W-16 Qualitative Research: How to Campus Security Plans
Explain Low Recidivism and
Smiles on Staff Faces Recent campus tragedies have placed campus
security as a priority for administrators,
The University of Maryland’s Healthy TERPS sometimes to the detriment of ongoing AODV
(targeting early-intervention high-risk prevention efforts. This workshop is designed
participating students) project partly explains to assist AODV professionals in framing AODV
campuswide reductions in alcohol and other prevention within the broader campus security
drug violations, property destruction and other plan. Participants will learn how to utilize local
vandalism, and overall police citations. The and national data on AODV into security risk
numbers (quantitative data and their analyses) assessments, incorporate AODV prevention
cannot entirely explain how these reductions approaches in broader security efforts, and
are happening. Qualitatively, through use legal and policy perspectives to empower
structured interviews, focus groups, and their participation in security planning. The
observations, the presenters have discovered workshop also will review collected best
a number of factors at work. To help practices from institutions that have
campuses better understand how and why successfully connected these issues.
effective results occur . . . or don’t, the project
team will outline the qualitative analysis Darby Dickerson is vice president, dean, and
process, thus widening the lens of prevention professor at Stetson University College of
through program evaluation using that other Law. She frequently publishes and speaks at
research methodology. conferences concerning higher education law
and policy. She co-chairs Stetson’s National
Amy Martin is associate director for resident Conference on Law and Higher Education and
life at the University of Maryland and serves is an elected member of the American Law
on the Healthy TERPS steering committee. Institute.
Aree Sangpukdee is a senior program Thomas Workman. See W-5, page 53.
manager and qualitative researcher at the
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation

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W-18 An NCAA Initiative to Address W-19 Experience the Power of
CONCURRENT SESSIONS DESCRIPTIONS

the Mental Health Needs of Partnerships


Collegiate Athletes
It is imperative to gather key stakeholders on
There are 380,000 athletes at more than 1,000 campus and in the community to work
U.S. colleges. Athletes may be more at risk for collaboratively to create an environment that
psychological difficulties because they supports good decisions about alcohol. The
experience the same pressures as nonathletes University of Missouri has several campus and
plus the pressures specific to the sports community coalitions and task forces that
environment. In 2007, the NCAA published a have discovered there is strength in numbers
manual for sports personnel related to and power in partnerships. Through these
identifying and referring athletes for treatment collaborations there have been changes in city
for difficulties related to depression, anxiety, laws, campus policies, and student behavior.
eating disorders, and substance abuse. Changes that have occurred will be illustrated
College counseling centers are often charged through sharing data from the following four
with treating such athletes. The presenters will surveys: Missouri College Student Health
provide recommendations regarding using this Behavior Survey, an online wellness survey, a
NCAA initiative to facilitate an effective coalition survey, and environmental scanning.
working relationship between counseling Participants will be encouraged to share
services and athletics departments. experiences.

Roberta Trattner Sherman is a psychologist in Kim Dude is director of the Wellness


private practice specializing in the treatment of Resource Center (WRC) at the University of
eating disorders in Bloomington, Ind., where Missouri-Columbia (MU). She received the
she is a consulting psychologist to the Athletic Outstanding Contribution to the Field award
Department at Indiana University. As a from the Network Addressing Collegiate
consultant to the NCAA on eating disorders Alcohol and Other Drug Issues in 2003. The
and mental health issues, she has coauthored U.S. Department of Education recognized
the NCAA Coaches Handbook: Managing the MU’s WRC as a model program in 1999 and
Female Athlete Triad and Managing Student- 2003.
Athletes’ Mental Health Issues.
Ron Thompson is a psychologist in private
practice specializing in the treatment of eating
disorders in Bloomington, Ind., where he is a
consulting psychologist to the Athletic
Department at Indiana University. As a
consultant to the NCAA on eating disorders
and mental health issues, he has coauthored
the NCAA Coaches Handbook: Managing the
Female Athlete Triad and Managing Student-
Athletes’ Mental Health Issues.

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W-20 Making the Most of Your years of program implementation, and the

CONCURRENT SESSIONS DESCRIPTIONS


Messages: Social Marketing for results of program evaluation.
Results
Ryan Fraleigh is a senior majoring in
accounting and supply chain management at
Social marketing uses marketing principles
Syracuse University. He is past president and
and techniques to influence members of a
member of Alpha Chi Rho Fraternity. He has
target audience to modify their behavior
acted as a peer facilitator of MVP for the past
voluntarily for the benefit of themselves,
two years and is currently a member of the
others, or society. Most colleges and
steering committee.
universities have limited resources by which to
Jerome Hall, men’s outreach coordinator for
reach a critical mass of students, making
Vera House, Inc., in Syracuse, N.Y.,
social marketing an attractive strategy. Health
coordinates the Alternatives Program,
promotion professionals who have limited
Onondaga County’s only domestic violence
time or limited knowledge to create social
education program. He provides therapeutic
marketing materials may develop campaigns
support and education to men in an effort to
without adhering to standards of practice and
open up discussions focusing on male
without evaluation. This session provides an
privilege, gender roles, attitudes toward
interactive look at how to make social
women, and abuse.
marketing messages and materials more
Lynn Levey teaches at Syracuse University
effective and how to evaluate social marketing
College of Law. Previously, she was the
campaigns.
upstate director of the Center for Court
Innovation in Syracuse, providing technical
Brynn Hvidston. See P-1, page 38.
assistance on problem-solving courts. At the
Karen Moses. See TM-4, page 49.
National Center for State Courts in Virginia,
she worked to improve compliance with the
1994 Violence Against Women Act.
W-21 Gender-based Violence Jill Sneider is the sexual health coordinator
Prevention in a University Greek with the R.A.P.E. Center at Syracuse
System University. She promotes dialogue on campus
about violence prevention (including sexual
Building on the Mentors in Violence violence prevention), healthy sexuality, and the
Prevention curriculum for college athletes, the prevention of high-risk drinking and other
Syracuse Partnership for Violence Prevention drug use. Her work incorporates the concept
piloted a peer-led violence prevention of being an empowered bystander.
program, funded by the U.S. Department of
Education, to work with the Greek community
at Syracuse University. The curriculum
engages students in candid conversations with
their peers about alcohol and sexual consent,
homophobia, gender roles, harassment, and
abuse, and encourages students to think of
ways to intervene as active bystanders. This
session focuses on the specifics of addressing
gender-based violence within the Greek
population, key lessons learned from two

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W-22 Looking for Trouble Before It
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approach is needed, involving multiple
Finds You: A Model for Campus campus stakeholders working together to
address problems and needs at an institutional
Safety Collaboration
level. This two-part workshop will summarize
what the presenters know about student
Using an interactive discussion the presenter
mental health problems and recommend a
will engage the audience in a dialogue about a
comprehensive, campuswide, public health
multidisciplinary approach for responding to
approach to promoting mental health and
campus safety concerns. Participants will be
preventing suicidal behavior.
challenged to work through various
prevention-, intervention-, and response-
Laurie Davidson. See P-18, page 45.
oriented strategies utilizing common, although
Lena Edmunds. See TM-1, page 48.
challenging, behaviors seen in campus
communities. Using the student assistance
coordination committee (SACC) and
behavioral review team (BRT) models, the W-24 Family Educational Rights and
session will illustrate how to implement the Privacy Act (FERPA)
tools, plans, and procedures available when
collaboration among campus experts is used This presentation will focus on the
to address behavioral issues. responsibilities of postsecondary institutions
under the Family Educational Rights and
Kim Novak currently serves as the director for Privacy Act (FERPA) in protecting student
student and campus community development education records. Topics discussed will cover
at Arizona State University, Downtown disciplinary records (including alcohol and
Phoenix campus. She is recognized as a other substance abuse), health and safety
national expert in the field of student risk exception, disclosure to parents, the interplay
management and serves, as appointed by the between FERPA and the Health Insurance
U.S. Department of Education, on the Review Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and
Group of its Higher Education Center for the treatment of law enforcement records.
Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence
Prevention. LeRoy Rooker directs the U.S. Department of
Education’s Family Policy Compliance Office,
which administers FERPA, a comprehensive
W-23 Mental Health and Suicide federal law that provides privacy protections
for student education records. He has served
Prevention on Campus: A
in his current capacity since February 1988.
Blueprint for Action
(two-part session)
W-25 Current Issues in Program
As more young people from all socioeconomic
Evaluation (two-part session)
backgrounds are attending college, campuses
are reporting sharp increases in demand for
An essential component of comprehensive
counseling services. Counseling and
alcohol and other drug abuse and violence
psychological services staff are pressed to
prevention plans is a solid evaluation plan. For
meet the demand, but it is not the
many practitioners, evaluation of campus-
responsibility of counseling staff alone to
based efforts can seem overwhelming, given
address it. A comprehensive public health

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constraints on time and resources. This University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has been

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interactive session will provide participants involved in the NU Directions coalition since
with an overview of common evaluation its inception and directs the statewide initiative
methodologies used in AOD abuse prevention. for Nebraska.
The presenters will work with participants to Thomas Workman. See W-5, page 53.
design evaluation plans and logic models,
identify measures, and interpret and
communicate results for successful W-27 U.S. Department of Education-
programming. Participants are encouraged to U.S. Secret Service Threat
bring program ideas so that the presenters
Assessment Training
can use real-world strategies and walk
through the process of evaluation design. (two-part session)

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

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W-28 Successful Crime Prevention
CONCURRENT SESSIONS DESCRIPTIONS
Kelly Horner is director of the Sexual Assault
Programs and Strategies Resource Center at the University at Albany,
State University of New York. Previously she
As current chair of the International was a coordinator of alcohol interventions
Association of Campus Law Enforcement funded by SAMHSA, using BASICS within the
Administrators (IACLEA) Crime Prevention health and counseling centers.
Committee, the presenter will provide Nancy Wahlig has worked in violence
information on the most effective campus prevention for more than 25 years. First she
crime prevention programs and strategies worked with a grassroots rape crisis center in
being implemented throughout the United Guam, then at the rape crisis center in Palo
States and internationally. Crime prevention Alto. She is the founding director of the Sexual
has historically emphasized the educational Assault and Violence Prevention Resource
programming of alcohol and other drug abuse Center at the University of California, San
and violence prevention as an integral aspect Diego.
of reducing campus crime and victimization.
This session will link effective campus crime
prevention programming with the reduction of W-30 Four Phases of Emergency
all aspects of crime and victimization. Management in Higher
Education
Lee Struble is the director of public safety at
Monroe Community College in Rochester, Emergency planning in the higher education
N.Y., and is currently serving as the chair of community has evolved due to a number of
the IACLEA Crime Prevention Committee. major events, such as the terrorist attacks in
September 2001, hurricanes Katrina and Rita in
2005, and the rampage shootings at Virginia
W-29 Bystander Intervention: Two Tech and Northern Illinois University. Today,
Campuses’ Experience more than ever, colleges and universities are
Integrating This Sexual Assault implementing comprehensive emergency
management efforts by focusing on the four
Prevention Strategy
phases of emergency management: prevention-
mitigation; preparedness; response; and
Sexual assault prevention efforts must engage
recovery. This workshop will explore the
students in talking about sexual violence. Two
development of emergency plans from
universities seek to activate the silent majority,
theoretical, operational, and legal perspectives.
aka “the bystander.” Students can often think:
The workshop also will explain how all college
(1) I am the only one bothered by this, (2) What
departments can contribute to safer campuses
could I say or do? or (3) What I say or do won’t
by participating in campuswide emergency
make a difference. Through the use of Bystander
preparedness efforts.
Intervention, students are encouraged to discuss
behaviors and ways to intervene. Representatives
Gary Margolis [invited] is the chief of police for
from the University of California, San Diego
the University of Vermont. During his near 20-
(UCSD), and University at Albany, State
year career he has been a deputy sheriff, police
University of New York, will present their
officer, and police academy administrator. He
institutions’ unique and similar experiences
serves as an adviser to the U.S. Departments of
with expanding prevention as a community
Justice and Homeland Security on higher
effort through Bystander Intervention.
education safety and security.

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Matthew Taylor serves as associate director Katherine Roberts, director of Interactive

CONCURRENT SESSIONS DESCRIPTIONS


of the Division of Educational Research and Health, LLC, a firm dedicated to the evaluation
Service (DERS) at the University of Montana, of health initiatives and prevention programs,
as well as for its Montana Safe Schools is also an adjunct professor at Columbia
Center. Through DERS, he also is affiliated University.
with the National Native Children’s Trauma
Center funded by the Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration within W-32 Using Peer-facilitated
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Interventions With High-risk
Services. He and his colleagues also are
Drinkers: Successes, Challenges,
responsible for the creation of a unique, online
school climate and prevention survey, titled the and Lessons Learned
Safe Schools Assessment and Resource Bank,
which has been completed by more than 55,000 Research indicates that using trained peer
respondents in schools across Montana. facilitators to implement interventions for
high-risk drinkers can be equally as effective,
if not more effective, than interventions
W-31 Attitudes Toward Campus Policy facilitated by professionals. This workshop will
and Drinking Behavior: Is There focus on the implementation of a three-year
a Link? NIAAA-funded research project evaluating the
effectiveness of two types of peer-facilitated
Environmental strategies for colleges to interventions—small-group motivational
reduce alcohol consumption among their interviewing and peer theater—when
students include the development and compared with a peer-to-peer educational
enforcement of campus alcohol policies. This program on alcohol and its effects. The
study examines 422 freshman students’ presentation will address successes,
knowledge and attitudes toward campus challenges, and lessons learned when
alcohol policies and how they relate to alcohol conducting peer-facilitated alcohol
consumption and alcohol social norms. Of the interventions with college students in general
89 percent of students who were aware of and with high-risk drinkers in particular.
campus policies, less than half abided by
them. Those who supported campus rules, Dolores Cimini. See W-3, page 52.
however, consumed significantly less alcohol Joseph Monserrat. See W-14, page 58.
at social events. This outcome supports the
premise established by the theory of planned
behavior, which states that behavior is
influenced less by knowledge than by attitude
and intention.

Brenda Marshall, director of research and


principal investigator on the 2006 Montclair
State University Model Programs grant, is an
adjunct professor and research associate at
Montclair, in the Department of Health and
Nutrition Sciences.

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W-33 College Mental Health Issues
CONCURRENT SESSIONS DESCRIPTIONS
the UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health and
and Campus Safety: Issues, has been a part of SFSS for a year.
Sarah Rodriguez’G is the project coordinator
Challenges, and Responses
for SFSS. Before working for SFSS, she
worked on alcohol policy programs for youths
Mental health issues have received increased
at the San Francisco Department of Public
attention in higher education due to violent
Health and on curriculum development for
campus tragedies in recent years and the rise
undergraduates at San Francisco State
in the severity of symptoms of counseling
University.
center clients. This workshop provides an
overview of clinical issues that exist on
campus, trends in counseling center resources
and provision of services, the potential for W-35 Men’s Anti-violence Project:
violence due to mental illness, and current TERPS Men Making a Difference
campus responses to mental health threats.
The presenter will provide relevant survey data The purpose of this project is to increase
and opportunity for discussion. Specific bystander intervention, reduce incidence of
campus response topics include: threat sexual assault, and increase the utilization of
assessment committees, federal and state victim services and reporting. This project
laws, campus policies, risk assessment developed and implemented a comprehensive
protocols, and campus gun bans. sexual violence prevention program targeted
to men on campus affiliated with all-male
Spencer Deakin. See TM-5, page 50. organizations in order to: reduce problem
attitudes and behaviors that perpetuate sexual
assault and threaten student safety; increase
W-34 Students Implementing Change: the knowledge and skills of men to prevent
sexual violence; increase the number of men,
Environmental Prevention of
as secondary victims, who are served by the
High-risk Drinking at UC victim advocate; and increase the knowledge
Berkeley of University of Maryland students about
sexual assault and violence prevention
Students for a Safer Southside (SFSS) is a programs and services.
group of about 15 to 20 UC Berkeley
undergraduate students that came together in Mollie Monahan has worked in the Office of
2005 to address alcohol- and other drug- Sexual Assault Prevention at the University of
related problems around the campus area. Maryland for six years and will serve as the
SFSS was initially funded by a State Initiative sexual violence prevention staff member in the
Grant. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life.
Grant to Prevent High-Risk Drinking on Matt Supple serves as the assistant director
College Campuses then funded SFSS in 2007. for fraternity and sorority life at the University
The students’ goals are to reduce high-risk of Maryland and is an advocate for campus
drinking behaviors and alcohol-related sexual assault prevention and victim service.
problems among students and to create a
positive relationship between the UC Berkeley
campus and the surrounding community.

Sarah Mogri is currently an undergraduate at

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W-36 B=MC2: A Model of Behavior

CONCURRENT SESSIONS DESCRIPTIONS


That Addresses Substance Use,
Violence, and Other Behaviors
on Campus

This program illustrates how the theoretical


model of B=MC2 can be applied to understand
and aid in the planning and development of
effective campus-specific programs to address
behaviors of concern. The construct proposes
that behavior is a product of one’s motivation,
circumstances, and perceived consequences
for that behavior. Thus, to effect a change in
behavior, decision makers, judicial boards,
counselors, residence life staff, and others
must review the factors on the other side of
the equation: motivation, circumstances, and
consequences (real or perceived). Addressing
substance use, violence, and dating violence
will be highlighted in this workshop.

Daniel Gittins is the crisis counselor at Robert


Morris University. He also is the founder and
executive director of the Center for Anger,
Behavior & Conflict Management. He has been
working with violence prevention and behavior
change for more than 18 years and has
presented numerous trainings on the topic.

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