Case Histories in Reducing High-Risk Drinking Among College Students
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/388/amod_histories.pdf
Publshed by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the American Medical Association’s “A Matter of Degree” project, this book presents the case histories of how four
campus-community coalitions in Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska and Vermont worked in 2000-02 to help change policies and community environments that affect student high-risk drinking.
Campaign for
Alcohol-Free Sports TV
http://cspinet.org/booze/CAFST/
Organized through the Center for Science in the Public Interest,
the Campaign for Alcohol-Free Sports TV seeks to reduce the amount
of alcoholic-beverage advertising to underage children and young
adults who tune into televised sports for fun.
College Alcohol Study
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cas/
This Web site provides findings from Harvard School of Public Health’s
College Alcohol Study. This national study of over 14,000 college
students gauges the prevalence of binge drinking and alcohol-related
problems. The Web site provides full access to the 1998 and 1995
reports, and lists other published findings from the survey, including
the prevalence of gun possession among college-age drinkers.
Core Institute
The Core Institute assists colleges and universities in implementing
drug and alcohol surveys. Sample copies and descriptions of the
student survey, survey of norms, and faculty and staff environment
survey are available on the Web site. Core Survey reports and press
releases are also available.
Facts on Tap
Facts on Tap is a joint effort of the Children of Alcoholics Foundation
and the American Council on Drug Education to provide educational
resources on alcohol for college students. Information is included
on the effects of alcohol, including the relationship between sex
and alcohol, and second-hand effects of alcohol.
Higher Education Center for Alcohol and
Other Drug Prevention
This comprehensive Web site funded by the U.S. Department of Education
includes documents, resources, and links on preventing alcohol and
drug abuse on college campuses. Programmatic information such as
setting policies, assessing the campus environment and extent of
the problem, and program evaluation are included. In addition, information
is provided on specific prevention strategies, such as social marketing,
normative education, and environmental strategies.
The Inter-Association Task Force on Alcohol
and Other Substance Abuse Issues
The Inter-Association Task Force (IATF) is an offshoot of Bacchus
dedicated to eliminating alcohol and other drug abuse among college
students. The organization is perhaps best known as the driving
force behind National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week. IATF sponsors
other events as well, including a National Symposium on College
Alcohol Practices in 1998. This Web page presents the report from
that conference. The Web site includes a “model alcohol policy”
for campuses and guidelines for beverage alcohol marketing on campuses.
A Matter of Degree: The National Effort
to Reduce High-Risk Drinking Among College Students
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/3558.html
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has funded 10 university-community
coalitions to create long-lasting changes in the environment that
support healthy lifestyle choices and discourage excessive alcohol
consumption.
Promising Practices: Campus Alcohol Strategies
This Web site contains information developed by George Mason’s Promising
Practices program. The site houses the online version of the Promising
Practices program binder, which includes descriptions of hundreds
of alcohol misuse prevention programs at work in colleges nationwide.
All descriptions include contact information, the program’s objectives,
and a descriptive narrative that may include examples of the program’s
effectiveness. In addition, the Campus Task Force Planner is available.
It lists prevention strategies by type of group (faculty, student
government, etc.), and provids case examples for each.