Schools and campuses play an important role in building healthy communities, helping students and staff access mental health and substance use systems, and supporting students who experience mental health or substance use problems.
Health promotion and alcohol in the campus community
A significant challenge to health promotion around alcohol use in a postsecondary context is the cultural status that heavy drinking episodes have acquired as an accepted rite of passage marking transition into more independent young adulthood.
Visions article: Editor's Message: Schools
Sarah Hamid-Balma
Reprinted from "Schools" issue of Visions Journal, 2009, 5 (2), p. 3
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