The COSAP shall staff a graduate-level position to coordinate and carry out a campus DWI prevention program targeting UNM students. This program will complete the following activities: 1) Widely distribute DWI information to UNM students, faculty, and staff via ethnic centers, student government, Greeks, residence halls, athletes, new student orientation, and other viable resources. 2) Expand and coordinate DWI and alcohol abuse-related materials and programs to include the four satellite campuses (Gallup, Los Alamos, Taos, Valencia). 3) Reinforce healthy behaviors through a campus-wide social norms campaign using a minimum of five ads per tern in the Daily Lobo, poster displays across campus and in Student Health Center bathroom holders; and by providing informational training on survey results and alternatives to drinking and driving to Residence Assistants and peer health educators during the school year. 4) Conduct a peer-based, corrective perception program for a minimum of six separate high-risk (Greek and athletic) groups. 5) Conduct qualitative research to determine actual and perceived alcohol-related norms and to ascertain effective prevention messages for the campus population. Methods will include the Core Alcohol and Drug Survey and focus groups in the fall and spring terms to help structure and define social norms campaign materials. 6) Continue to actively serve in the Provost's Core Retention Committee and action groups to provide updated information to committee members regarding alcohol abuse in student underachievement and drop rate. COSAP will continue to work with associated retention programs to infuse DWI and other alcohol-related prevention elements into their programming. 7) Build the Central New Mexico Substance Abuse Prevention Consortium into a viable network for the dissemination and sharing of DWI and alcohol-abuse related materials and programs. This will involve survey key representatives from associated schools regarding their current prevention efforts, levels of interest in an active Consortium, and preferred methods of communicating as a group, e.g., e-mail, personal contact, conference calls, etc.
For more information, please visit the COSAP website.
For more information, please visit the COSAP website.
