Dear Campus Community Members:
Many of you attended our recent webinar about campus suicide prevention efforts with Dr. Jennifer White. If you would like to re-visit any of the content, including Jennifer's handouts, please navigate to our community website to access the materials: CLICK HERE
We plan to host one final learning event for this period on Friday March 30, 2012 from 10:00am-11:30am. We received some late notice funding to produce an environmental scan of substance use prevention programming on BC campuses. Some of you will have connected with our researcher/writer Kristina Brache, who has been compiling the report on our behalf. Our collaborators at CARBC will also be adding their responses to the final product.
This final learning event will be a teleconference for us to report out our findings. Given the very short notice for this event, we will be both archiving the event, and hosting a follow up session later in April.
Here are the details:
When: Friday March 30th (10:00am-11:30am PST)
Register:
Where: 1.866.680.0767 (Access Code: 9313833) - TO ACCESS AUDIO
http://momentum.adobeconnect.com/suprevention/ - TO ACCESS SLIDES
Key topics:
What does the literature say?
- Overview of substance use programming with demonstrated effectiveness (focus upon illicit substance use, non-prescription use of pharmaceuticals, and some commentary on energy drinks)
What is happening here on campus in BC?
- Examples of existing substance use prevention/cessation activities, resources, and policies at BC post-secondary institutions
Gaps and Recommendations
Dialogue
This report is designed to augment the existing research, practices, and resources that continues to be produced by our collaborators at CARBC.
Jonny Morris, MA-CYC Canadian Mental Health Association, BC Division |