U.S. Department of Education/Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools

The U.S. Department of Education in 2007 awarded CHS a two-year grant to decrease by 5 percent high-risk drinking (HRD) at McDaniel College in Westminster, MD.  The program is designed to engage first-year students and fraternity/sorority members to address factors that foster HRD. Goals include reducing the number of first-year students referred for disciplinary action or having academic issues resulting from alcohol. The program is also intended to decrease heavy alcohol consumption episodes and violations in dormitories as well as warnings and suspensions issued to fraternity/sorority organizations and alcohol-related assaults.

• Develop communication strategies to engage the college and community in activities that produce decreases binge drinking, alcohol-related disciplinary actions, and community complaints
• Develop an evidence-based, alcohol awareness/prevention program suitable for nationwide scale-up
• Evaluate program at each stage to determine next steps in the short term and evidence of best practices, lessons learned, and effective interventions in the long-term
• Provide early interventions and referrals to high-risk or alcohol-dependent students by training peer mentors, residential assistants, and others to recognize HRD and refer students for substance abuse counseling
• Disseminate best practices, lessons learned to the higher education community through the Higher Education Center (http://www.higheredcenter.org/), a resource sponsored by the Department of Education to help college and community leaders develop, implement, and evaluate programs and policies to reduce student problems related to alcohol and other drug use

Download brochure

Download a brochure designed for a campaign to reach out to atheletes at McDaniel College.

Download flyer designed to raise faculty awareness.

McDaniel College (http://www.mcdaniel.edu)

Grogan Ullah
McDaniel College
P. O. Box 599-58
2 College Hill
Westminster, Maryland 21157
Gullah@mcdaniel.edu

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