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LEARNING COLLABORATIVE ON HIGH-RISK DRINKING National College Health Improvement Project. Campus Improvement Team Jenny Hwang, PhD ., Associate Dean & Director of Counseling & Psychological Services Smita Majumdar Das, Psy.D ., Assistant Director, Center for Prevention & Outreach
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LEARNING COLLABORATIVE ON HIGH-RISK DRINKING National College Health Improvement Project Campus Improvement Team Jenny Hwang, PhD., Associate Dean & Director of Counseling & Psychological Services SmitaMajumdar Das, Psy.D., Assistant Director, Center for Prevention & Outreach Amy Hammock, PhD., Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine Lara Hunter, LCSW, Coordinator of Clinical Alcohol and other Drug Services Campus Improvement Team Peter Baigent, PhD. – Vice President for Student Affairs and Associate Provost for Enrollment & Retention Management Ahmed Belazi, MPH – Program Evaluator, Center for Prevention and Outreach Quinn O’Brien, Student Body Representative Aleef Rahman, MPH, MBA, MSc – Program Development Coordinator Campus Improvement Team Initiatives We believe that to provide a comprehensive education of the highest quality requires an inclusive, healthy and safe campus community. In recognition of the associated harms that high-risk drinking poses to the campus community, we aim to reduce the prevalence of high-risk drinking by 25% in two years. - Expand screening activities utilizing evidence-based clinical and preventive practices. - Invigorate and sustain a culture of healthy choices around substances through social and other marketing campaigns. - Establish and maintain the investment of multiple stakeholders within and around the campus community. - Engage students in reducing high-risk drinking through bystander intervention frameworks utilizing a spectrum of "readiness to change" and "engagement" profiles. The Stony Brook—NCHIP Experience As a result of Stony Brook University's participation in NCHIP, more departments are engaged in activities using short PDSA cycles particularly within the Division of Student Affairs making assessment and outcomes-based decision making more prevalent. Our partnerships with area such as law enforcement and university conduct code offices have also strengthened with greater tracking of rates of multiple violations as well as development of coordinated responses not only involving the individual drinker but environmental factors as well. The greatest lesson learned has involved the power of the PDSA not only in furthering best practices but also in engaging campus stakeholders as well through a contained, data-driven approach. Num. of AOD Incidents Charted As Hot Spots On Campus Map Outcome Measures Over Time High Risk Drinking Rate * Drinking-Related Harms-Injured Yourself * Sustainability Plans Our NCHIP team is a composite of different experts which always for an interdisciplinary approach to reaching our NCHIP goals. Each representative brings a stakeholder perspective from their respective department, that has improved interdepartmental communications. Moreover, many departments are engaged in activities using short PDSA cycles particularly within the Division of Student Affairs making improvement testing and outcomes-based decision making more prevalent. We plan to continue using the PDSA approach as it has allowed us to determine scalability with low costs and consecutive successes. We have expectations to increase our staff through the recruitment of another AOD counselor and a Health Communications Specialist to manage our campaigns. The additional staff will provide us with valuable input to successfully continue maintaining and monitoring our progress. Our previous work with graduate students from the University’s Graduate Program in Public Health and the College of Business MBA students has been very successful. These graduate students have invested their time as external consultants as well as becoming valuable stakeholders in the growth of our campaigns such as the Think Again social norms campaign and RWB training. We plan to continue building relationships with these academic departments to increase the input of our student stakeholders and faculty/staff representatives who are vital to our NCHIP goals. For some of our newest campus initiatives (i.e. Think Again), we have hopes to utilize the following summer to qualitatively evaluate the effects of the campaign on our campus. With multiple drivers (i.e. prevention, toxicity management) in mind, we have plans to continue many of our current campus initiatives that we have implemented. * *Office of Institutional Research (OIR) interrupted monthly surveys from May 2012 to September 2012 due to competing institutional interests Highlighted Initiative RED WATCH BAND : The purpose of the Red Watch Band bystander intervention training is to prevent deaths and other harms caused by alcohol overdose. Process and Outcomes Measurement Activity Summary: Total Number of Individual Trained: 2969 Signed User Agreements: 148 Institutions Actively conducting trainings: 38 institutions RWB: Paired Knowledge and Help Seeking Indices RWB Growth Social Norms Campaign Web Analytics Think Again: Social Norms Campaign Activity SUMMATIVE CONGRESS JUNE 2013