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A Prevention 101 Series Publication

The Higher Education Center forAlcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence PreventionFunded by the U.S. Department of Education

Building an InfrastructureFor AODV Prevention

Coalitions and Statewide Initiatives

Tis publication was unded by the Ofce o Sae and Drug-Free Schools at the U.S. Departmento Education under contract number ED-04-CO-0137 with Education Development Center, Inc.Te contracting ofcer’s representatives were ara Hill and Phyllis Scattergood. Te content o thispublication does not necessarily reect the views or policies o the U.S. Department o Education,nor does the mention o trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. government. Tis publication also contains hyperlinks and URLs or inormation createdand maintained by private organizations. Tis inormation is provided or the reader’s convenience.Te U.S. Department o Education is not responsible or controlling or guaranteeing the accuracy,relevance, timeliness, or completeness o this outside inormation. Further, the inclusion o inorma-tion or a hyperlink or URL does not reect the importance o the organization, nor is it intended toendorse any views expressed, or products or services oered.

U.S. Department of Education

Arne Duncan

Secretary

Oce of Safe and Drug-Free Schools

Kevin Jennings

Assistant Deputy Secretary

April 2010 Tis publication is in the public domain. Authorization to reproduce it in whole or in part is granted. While permission to reprint this publication is not necessary, the citation should be: U.S. Departmento Education, Ofce o Sae and Drug-Free Schools, Higher Education Center or Alcohol and OtherDrug Abuse and Violence Prevention,

Building an Infrastructure for AODV Prevention: Coalitions and Statewide Initiatives,

Washington, D.C., 2010.Tis publication and other resources are available on the Web site or the U.S. Department o Education’s Higher Education Center or Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention:http://www.higheredcenter.org.

Building an Infrastructure for AODV Prevention

Te environmental managementapproach to alcohol and other drugabuse and violence (AODV) preven-tion is based on the principle thatcollege students’ conduct can beshaped through concerted eorts toreengineer the environment thatshapes their behavior.

Constructing acampus, community, and state-levelenvironment that will protect studentsand help them make healthier andsaer decisions is challenging work, which requires an organized andparticipatory process to develop,implement, and evaluate a soundstrategic plan.

Tis process includes three types o participatory eorts.

campus

, thecollege president or chancellor canbegin by appointing a permanenttask orce that represents severalimportant constituencies, includingkey administrative sta, aculty, andstudents, and possibly alumni andparents. o guide

community-level

eorts, the task orce can collaborate with, or evolve into, a ull coalitionthat includes both campus and civicleaders. Finally, work at the

state level

can be acilitated by a statewideassociation o academic, community,and state prevention leaders.Tis publication outlines how campusofcials can organize and work collaboratively with campus andcommunity coalitions and withstatewide initiatives to accomplishtheir AODV prevention goals.

Building an Infrastructure for AODV Prevention

Coalitions and Statewide Initiatives

by William DeJong, Ph.D.

Community-level Coalitions

Prevention work in the community surrounding a campus is best acilitatedby a campus and community coalition.Te main purpose o a campus andcommunity coalition is to direct andoversee the design and execution o astrategic plan. Some coalitions aredirectly involved in putting theseprograms and policies into operation, while others act as catalysts or identiy-ing community needs, selecting ordesigning initiatives, and mobilizingcampus and community support.

Both the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) ask Force on College Drinking

and theNational Academies

have endorsedcampus and community coalitionsas the primary vehicle or pursuingcommunity-level prevention work. Insome locales, campus ofcials will beable to join an existing coalition, but where no such organization is in place,top academic administrators can takethe lead in beginning one, perhapsbuilding rom a campus task orce.

Evaluations of Campus andCommunity Coalitions

Recent evaluations have shown thatmobilizing a campus and community coalition can oster successul preven-tion eorts.In 2005, the Bellingham–Western Washington University CampusCommunity Coalition launched itsNeighborhoods Engaging with Students(NES) project to decrease disruptiveo-campus parties.

Enorcementinterventions, all heavily publicized,included additional police patrols intargeted neighborhoods and increasedcompliance checks at both on- ando-premise alcohol retailers nearcampus. A Web site and a series o neighborhood orums educated studentsregarding their rights and responsibilitiesas community residents. NES alsoeatured a neighborhood mediationprogram to help settle disputes involvingstudents. At the same time, Western Washington University boosted itslate-night programming on campus,especially or underage, rst-yearstudents. A second public university in Washington created a similar program.Student surveys showed that theprevalence o heavy episodic drinking was lower at these two interventionschools than at a third comparisonuniversity.Te University o Rhode Island’scoalition experience was mixed.

In2000, university ofcials joined withtown leaders to orm the Narragansett–URI Coalition, a monthly orum oraddressing alcohol-impaired driving,student parties, and other o-campusproblems. In short order, the coalitiondeveloped a model lease with explicitpenalties or police incidents; set up asystem to notiy absentee landlords