Alcohol & Drug Abuse Prevention
Strategic Plan

Mission Statement | Departmental Highlights | Departmental Challenges | Departmental Goals

MISSION STATEMENT

To provide students, faculty and staff with a confidential source of information and help when confronted with alcohol or drug abuse or addiction issues; to promote activities and programs with student support to focus campus attention on the problem of alcohol and drug abuse; to help the student body claim ownership of alcohol and drug problems on campus and take charge of identifying and implementing solutions.

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2009-10 DEPARTMENTAL HIGHLIGHTS

  • Expanded alcohol and drug education programming. Increased number of TIPS facilitators from to 22 Trained over 900 students in TIPS and trained several hundred in Mustangs Who Care.  TIPS teaches skills for intervening with peers who may have had too much to drink.  Mustangs Who Care is a student-facilitated program that encourages students to be responsible in social settings and to have the information and resources to help a peer who may have an alcohol or drug problem.
  • Continued implementation of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) for all students accessing services through the Center for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention, all students enrolled in Wellness Choices I classes, and student athletes.
  • Completed year two implementing objectives of the 3-year NCAA “Mustang Winning Choices” grant.   Took 4 staff and two student athletes to Orlando, Florida to participate in the NCAA Apple Conference.
  • Continued working with our advisory panel of students in recovery from alcohol/drug abuse. Worked with this group on identifying their needs, which included networking opportunities, sober housing and insurance coverage. Helped support expansion of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings on campus.
  • Worked to transition the Gordie Foundation message to the new student initiative, Mustangs Who Care.   

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DEPARTMENTAL CHALLENGES

  1. Increasing student participation in peer education
  2. Collecting accurate, representative outcome measurement
  3. Communicating and coordinating health related activities to avoid duplication of efforts

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DEPARTMENTAL GOALS

Student Success

    • Continued working to address the needs of students in recovery including networking opportunities, sober housing, insurance coverage and support group meetings.
    • Complete year two of NCAA “Mustang Winning Choices”. Objectives: implement a social marketing campaign, train student athletes in TIPS and Mustangs Who Care, engage student athletes in peer outreach, screen student athletes using the AUDIT, track self-referrals to counseling, host alcohol-free events.

    Student Learning

      • Chose CollegeAlc to replaced AlcoholEdu starting summer 2010.
        • Implemented the CRAWL program (Choosing Responsibility and Within Limits), and are working to train more CRAWL facilitators.
        • Partnered with Psychology Department on outcome research.

        Exemplary Division of Student Affairs

        • Implemented the CRAWL program (Choosing Responsibility and Within Limits), and are working to train more CRAWL facilitators.
        • Partnered with Psychology Department on outcome research.

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