Inter-Association Task Force

IATF Member Associations Recognizing Outstanding Alcohol Education Programming & Leadership

Member Associations of the Inter-Association Task Force believe it is important to recognize exemplary educational programs and leadership for AOD issues that are conducted by campus groups, professionals, and student leaders. Various member associations annually select award recipients who have achieved excellence in their campus communities for their dedication to educating others on alcohol and promoting safety. Campus programs or individuals could also be awarded for comprehensive or evidence-based approaches or research projects. Each association determines their own membership award criteria.

Educational programs can help people learn to make responsible decisions regarding the use of alcohol. Awareness activities serve as helpful reminders to students to encourage good decision-making. And the best and most successful programs include the support and involvement of the entire college community: students, faculty, administrators, local businesses and community organizations.

The following Associations have made awards in 2009-2010

Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors sponsors the AFA/IATF Award for Outstanding Alcohol/Other Drug Prevention Program. This award annually recognizes an outstanding campus and/or inter/national organization for its efforts in broad-based alcohol/other drug prevention efforts.

BACCHUS
BACCHUS presents two awards annually in November to recognize alcohol abuse prevention efforts. One is presented to an Outstanding Alcohol Abuse Prevention Program, and one to an Outstanding Student Leader.

Outstanding Alcohol Abuse Prevention Program
Central Connecticut State University’s Natural Helpers
Alcohol Awareness Fair
This all-day alcohol education event incorporated fun, education, partnerships, prevention and intervention. What made this event stand out was the peer education group’s commitment to engage more of the campus as well as the surrounding community in to strong prevention and intervention strategies. This group enlisted the collaboration of 9 student organizations, 5 campus departments, and 4 community resources. While campus police discussed field sobriety tests, education quizzes and giveaways such as food, tie-dyed shirts, alcohol poisoning cards and carabineers were available. Most impressive was that of the 700 students in attendance, over 400 were screened for alcohol use during the event, resulting in 56 referrals and 2 crisis interventions.
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Outstanding Student Leadership
Ashley M. Porter, Bradley University
In her first semester as a peer educator and as a freshman, Ashley and another student researched and created a new program on tobacco cessation. She later focused on alcohol presentations, created an alternative program that was a better fit for Greek houses and residence halls, and now is the student representative on the Vice-President of Student Affairs’ Alcohol Action Plan Implementation Committee. Ashley finds time to be involved in other leadership activities while maintaining a 3.83 GPA and receiving several academic scholarships.

The Network sponsors the Margaret J. Barr Student Research Award. Both undergraduate and graduate students at Network member institutions are eligible to compete for this biennial award. The award is $5000. The goal of The Network in sponsoring this award is to encourage relevant prevention inquiry by student researchers and to promote the development of student learning teams within our member institutions. The Network encourages students at member institutions to develop original research proposals consistent with The Network's organizational mission that have the potential to inform the field and increase the effectiveness of prevention efforts on college campuses throughout the nation. The awardee presents their research at the Department of Education's National Meeting on Alcohol, Drug and Violence Prevention in Higher Education.

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