Substance Abuse and Mental health Services Administration
Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Drug Misuse Prevention and Recovery
National Association of Student Personnel Administrators
Reducing alcohol harms among university students: A summary of best practices
This paper presents a framework that can be used to implement programs and policies that can serve to reduce alcohol harms among the university student population. Nova Scotia, Spring 2012.
Alcohol in the Vulnerable Lives of College Women
Article by Devon Jersild that appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education in 2002.
The College Alcohol Risk Assessment Guide
Compiled in 1997 by Ryan, Colthurst, & Segars, the CARA Guide is a “how to” about environmental scanning and problem analysis (including exercises), responses, and assessments. Includes plenty of anecdotes from actual campus experiences.
Field Experiences in Effective Prevention
Follow-up to Experiences in Effective Prevention: U.S. Deptartment of Education’s Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Models on College Campuses
The Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools at the U.S. Department of Education revisited 22 campuses that received alcohol and drug abuse prevention grants from 1999 to 2004 and summarized the current thinking and lessons learned in the 2007 publication. In this 2010 follow-up document, the experiences of the 2005, 2006, and 2007 model program grantees are described.
NIAAA College Task Force Site — College Drinking: Changing the Culture
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s website, offering materials for college students, parents and presidents, special features, and statistics and summaries.
Prevention Challenges for Community Colleges
This publication from the Higher Education Center addresses how community colleges are different and provides strategies for alcohol and other drug prevention in the community college setting.