2024 In-Person National Meeting At A Glance Schedule
*Schedule is tentative and subject to change*
Monday, July 29, 2024
9:00 – 4:00 p.m. – Registration Open
10:00 – 4:30 p.m. – Pre-Conference Sessions
Pre-Conference Sessions:
9:00 a.m. - 12 p.m. - An Introduction to Collegiate Recovery Programs: Funding, Structure and Impact
Presenters:
Kristina Canfield
Description:
Collegiate Recovery Programs (CRPS) are designed to provide recovery support services within the college environment. With this support, students are given the opportunity to maintain recovery and thrive while succeeding in college. This session will explore the rich history of collegiate recovery programs, their vital role as a part of campus services, and demonstrate the cost effectiveness of supporting these programs on your campus.
Presenters:
Ahmed Hosni & Mackenzie Hogan
Description:
The Recovery is Spoken Here training is strongly recommended for any campus hoping to engage faculty or staff in becoming an ally for their students in or seeking recovery, helping to create a recovery-ready campus. A recovery-friendly campus is a campus with a culture of acceptance and empowerment for students in or seeking recovery so that they feel not only comfortable asking for help but also celebrated by the campus community. This 4-hour train the trainer will be hosted by our Assistant Director of Student Wellness, Ahmed Hosni and our Wellness Coordinator from the Collegiate Recovery Community, Mackenzie Hogan. Attendees will receive all materials needed to deliver the training on their campus.
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
8:00 – 9:00 a.m. – Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 11:30 a.m. – Intensives Skill-Building Sessions
Presenters:
Dolores Cimini, Ahmed Hosni, Richard Lucey & Paula Swinford
Description:
Recently, an increasing number of campuses across the United States are moving toward the adoption of a Health Promoting Campus (HPC) framework which encompasses person, place, and planet and is framed within equity and social justice lens. As part of this shift, some institutions believe that in order to achieve the ideals of a Health Promoting Campus, historical infrastructures and prior practices must be dismantled, including some AOD practices found through prevention and intervention science and recovery best practices to be effective in reducing use and negative consequences and promoting wellbeing and enhanced quality of life, if campuses are to truly embrace the social justice aspirations of the Health Promoting Campus framework and eliminate historical remnants of white supremacy and racism. This seismic change in our campus environments makes it incumbent on us as AOD professionals to better understand the Health Promoting Campus Framework and develop skills and strategies to continue to move forward as valuable and respected partners in our institutional journeys and advance our life-changing and life-saving work.
Through convening and engaging a panel of national experts representing prevention, recovery, research, and university administration in dialogue with attendees, the proposed intensive session will provide an overview of the Health Promoting Campus framework and will outline its key concepts and underpinnings. The program will illustrate how AOD prevention and intervention science and the best practices that have been developed, implemented, and tested over the years, such as Motivational Interviewing and other cognitive-behavioral strategies, social norms, environmental management, and comprehensive prevention efforts guided by the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), are consonant and consistent with a Health Promoting Campus framework. Strategies to help AOD professionals elevate their work within a Health Promoting Campus approach and tools to help engage campus colleagues in productive and proactive dialog regarding the alignment between AOD prevention and intervention science and collegiate recovery best practices and the Health Promoting Campus model will be highlighted, and innovative ways to reframe our language and prevention and intervention work to promote equity , social justice and the ideals of the Health Promoting Campus framework will be explored.
Presenters:
Cindy Clouner & Jen Morel
Description:
Budgets and timelines and SMART goals- Oh my! While many budgets are shrinking, we may feel the pressure to explore opportunities for funding beyond what is provided by our campus to sustain and grow our AOD efforts. Grant writing can feel overwhelming and confusing, but it doesn’t have to be. This intensive session will provide a crash course in grant writing, tailored specifically for campus professionals. It will provide an overview of critical components of successful proposals and provide opportunities to practice these skills so that you can return to campus ready to write!
Presenters:
Gary S. Stofle, MSSW, LISW-S, LICDC-CS, BCD
Description:
This session will cover the essential aspects of Motivational Interviewing based upon the 4th edition of the MI text: Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change and Grow. The first part of this workshop is on the relational aspects of MI such as the Spirit of MI and OARS with a focus on reflective listening. All of these parts are essential to establish a relationship with a student. These essential aspects will be demonstrated, and attendees will be able to practice them. The second part of this workshop with focus on the technical aspects of MI – three key skills: attending, inviting and strengthening change talk. These skills that assist the staff to do the technical part of MI will be demonstrated and practiced as well.
11:30 – 12:45 p.m. – Lunch Break (off-site)
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Conference Welcome & Afternoon Keynote
Presenters:
Kate Hidalgo Bellows, Sarah Van Orman, Bianca Newton & Dr. David Anderson
Description:
The College Drug and Alcohol Study has been collecting data on campus prevention efforts for over 40 years. The most recent iteration of the study, taking place in the spring of 2024, surveyed not only the existing cohort of four-year campuses, but also include two-year institutions for the first time. This session will unveil the 2024 survey results for the first time and engage key collegiate stakeholders in a panel discussion, moderated by The Chronicle reporter Kate Hidalgo Bellows, on how practitioners can use these findings to advocate for the student health and well-being needs on their campuses.
2:45 – 3:30 p.m. – Networking Neighborhood
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. – Afternoon Snack Break
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. – Breakout Sessions
Presenters:
Brandy Reeves-Doyle & Leslie Haxby McNeil
Description:
This presentation will provide attendees with an overview of peer health education, including the research supporting PHE and best practices. Presenters will discuss how to create a PHE program that is student-centered and provides the peer educators with autonomy to develop programming and guide the program.
Presenters:
Thomas Bannard & Mer Francis
Description:
This session presents findings from the ongoing National Longitudinal Collegiate Recovery Study (NLCR) in order to 1) show how the field is changing; 2) highlight strengths, emerging problems, and gaps for CRP services; and 3) identify specific ways that CRPs can best support their participants. This session will specifically explore experiences of BIPOC and LGBTQ students in Collegiate Recovery Programs as well as examine the prevalence and impact of trauma on student experiences in these programs.
Presenters:
Gabby Buttry
Description:
Strategic planning for successful alcohol and other drug programming on college campuses can be difficult with an abundance of data and trends to choose from. Learn strategies to apply data, student feedback, and emerging trends to create a comprehensive prevention program. The session will identify strengths and gaps of key considerations for prevention with Gen Z. Attendees will explore how to utilize evidence-based strategies, research and current trends to apply to AOD programming.
Presenters:
Kyle Pendleton
Description:
This workshops explores how holding others accountable doesn’t always have to be a formal process; it can happen in everyday conversations you have with each other. We will explore more about what individuals actually want and how we can step in and help each other to create a healthy environment.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
8:00 – 9:00 a.m. – Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. – Breakout Sessions
It's Time To Ungrind: Supporting Collegiate Communities Through a Innovative Social Norming Campaign
Presenters:
Eva Esakoff & Emma Spalding
Description:
NASPA’s Colorado Coalition for College Alcohol and Drug Educators (CADE) will share the story of their’s statewide “Time to Ungrind” campaign, that aims to resist society’s culture of grinding and hustling all day, every day, and address college student stimulant misuse and mental health challenges related to college life. Presenters will share key campaign components, their key partnership with campuses across the state, and how you can support your students by utilizing the campaign in collaboration with your campus’s health and well-being champions.
Presenters:
Gabby Buttry
Description:
Cannabis continues to be at the forefront of substance use on college campuses and requires comprehensive prevention programming. Since the surge in cannabis research, news, and trends it can be increasingly difficult for AOD prevention to translate this information into student-centered education. This session will provide an overview of the current research, trends, and institution-specific data and steps taken to develop social norming campaigns, student roundtable discussions, and student-wide prevention and education efforts to prevent cannabis use. Through a facilitated discussion and the use of The University of Georgia as a case study, attendees should take away some key strategies and information to tailor programming to their individual campuses.
Presenters:
Lindsay Montgomery, Frankie Berryman & Theo De Witt
Description:
This session begins with an overview of the continuum of care as it relates to alcohol and other drug (AOD) programming and initiatives, followed by the introduction of recovery-informed education (RIE). The presentation will proceed through each component of the continuum of care and explore the application of RIE in that area, including promotion of health and well-being; prevention; case identification and treatment; and on-going recovery support. The presenters will discuss specific methods of applying RIE, including interactive activities to provide experiential learning opportunities. The session will include key questions to consider during programming development, specific programming ideas, and assessment considerations.
10:30 – 11:30 a.m. – Breakout Sessions
Presenters:
Molly Lindner
Description:
Do you feel like there’s a different “how to be a bystander” program for every type of harm, but all of those programs have the same end goal? During this session, the presenter will reference evidence-based concepts and will explore bystander behaviors framed within the context of community connection and a sense of belonging, including how these behaviors are often affected by intersectional identities as well as shared risk and protective factors. Additionally, the presenters will show how this type of programming can lead to the creation of a caring community where individuals are empowered to show care and/or intervene in any situations where there is the potential for harm.
Presenters:
Dr. Michael Broman, Dr. Emily Pasman & Erin Cox
Description:
In the 2021-2022 academic year, we developed and conducted a qualitative study to better understand the experiences of students in recovery on acampus without a collegiate recovery program. We found that factors such as multiple pathways to recovery and mental health challenges were salientamong participants. Utilizing our study results, in 2023, we secured funding to support the creation of a CRP on that campus. Next, utilizing both ourstudy results and existing literature, we developed a needs assessment to inform programming. As of February 2, 116 students have completed theneeds assessment, and the survey will remain open through March 2024. Example topics include experiences with various recovery services (Kelly etal., 2017); mental health and wellness (e.g., Perez-Rojas et al., 2017); recovery capital (Bowen et al., 2023); and desired support services within theCRP (Ashford et al., 2017; Vest et al., 2021). During our session, we will highlight how and why we developed our needs assessment, and then detailhow results are being used to support student needs through the newly developed collegiate recovery program. We will then leave ample time (at least15 minutes) for audience Q & A.
Presenters:
Brenda Young, Cienna Samiley & Deana Garner-Smith
Description:
This presentation proposal will focus on how ASU HPP developed a specific peer health education program (PHEP) within a targeted high-risk population. PHEP has created a plan to prevent substance misuse within an insular targeted high-risk student population (collegiate athletics), a group that has been identified as a known high-risk population for substance misuse (DEA, 2020). In an effort to meet student athletes’ unique challenges in thecollegiate space, ASU HPP has tailored substance misuse alcohol prevention efforts and replicated a PHEP model within the athletic space. By embedding the PHEP into the existing community provides continuous programming opportunities throughout the academic year beyond their required annual training.
11:00 – 12:00 p.m. – Breakout Session
Presenters:
JaNiene People, Dr. Ben Montemayor & Dr. Daniela Tuda
Description:
There continues to be emerging interest in the impact of racial discrimination on Black college students’ substance use behaviors and associated consequences. Yet, the collective body of evidence has not been synthesized comprehensively, resulting in a gap in knowledge regarding (1) the causal relationship between racial discrimination and substance use; and (2) the methodological and analytic strengths and weaknesses of existing studies.Accordingly, we conducted a scoping review of peer-reviewed literature (2000-2022) to summarize studies of racial discrimination and substance use among Black college students. We will discuss important evidence gaps and suggest directions for future antiracist research and practices on college campuses.
11:30 – 12:45 p.m. – Lunch Break (off-site)
1:00 – 2:15 p.m. – Afternoon Keynote
Presenters:
Dr. Jim Lange & Kevin Patrick Murphy
Description:
This panel discussion will examine the ever changing landscape of cannabis policy, including potential rescheduling, and its implications for college professionals. We’ll explore how these changes impact campus regulations, student health, and institutional responsibilities, providing insights and strategies for effective policy adaptation.
2:30 – 3:15 p.m. – Networking Neighborhood
3:15 -3:45 p.m. – Afternoon Snack Break
3:45 – 4:45 p.m. – Breakout Sessions
Presenters:
Rich Lucey, Jonah Neville, Dr. Allison Smith & Kelly Truesdell
Description:
This session will include an overview of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s updated strategic planning guide for preventing drug misuse among college students, successes and challenges experienced by colleges and universities applying the Strategic Prevention Framework to their efforts; and the importance of considering culture across the SPF’s five steps. DEA’s resources for professionals working to prevent drug use and misuse among college students will be discussed and audience interaction will be encouraged.
Presenters:
Eric Teske & Lisa Hutcheson
Description:
Learn how the Indiana Collegiate Action Network created online prevention education modules for alcohol, drugs, and sexual violence designed to leverage campus’ existing learning management systems (LMS) like Canvas, Blackboard, or Moodle.
Presenters:
Kelsey Schmuhl, Ashley Swisshelm & Lauren Weber
Description:
In this session, participants will learn about the importance of harm reduction strategies on college campuses, particularly among Greek life students. This presentation will describe two student-led research projects related to harm reduction resources. Students will describe the evolution of their projects from a needs assessment to implementing a harm reduction toolkit distribution model. The presentation will be led by a group of undergraduate students and their research mentor/principal investigator. A combination of lecture and small group discussion will occur throughout the session. Presenters will encourage small group discussion among participants to apply this model toward addressing trends at their institution.
Thursday, August 1, 2024
8:00 – 9:00 a.m. – Continental Breakfast
8:45 – 9:30 a.m. – Mini Session Presentations
Presenters:
Jaylen Redd, DaShaun Davis, Kris Knight & Leslie Haxby McNeil
Description:
At the beginning of the 2024 Academic Year Jaylen Redd, Senior at Defiance College, won a fellowship to the Collegiate Recovery Leadership Academy.This session will describe Jaylen’s journey to forming “Lets Get Real”, a peer support group, at Defiance College. Jaylen will talk about the strategies he used to develop both campus an community stakeholders, and promote the group to his peers on campus.
The opportunity to “sit on both sides“ of the interview table is a unique student experience and one that can be extraordinarily beneficial in a peer education recruitment and selection process. HAWKS peer health educators developed an effective process to recruit a competitive candidate pool as well as a selective interview process that is student run, student driven. 1. How our process is student run and student driven – coordinated by the two vice presidents for recruitment and selection – All HAWKS receive interview skill training on the 3 interview activities – All HAWKS share equally in interviewing candidates and make recommendations on candidate status – decisions on which candidates advance to the final round presentation made by the HAWKS leadership team – Final decisions on position offers made with the advisor and leadership team 2. Recruitment Process – marketing and advertising – Classroom visits coordinated by Vice Presidents and all HAWKS present to classrooms – networking through current peer educator social and extracurricular involvements 3. Group Interview: all candidates – Goals: introduce HAWKS to candidates; assess candidates on 4 criteria – each candidate assessed by two current HAWKS 4. Individual interview: all candidates – Goals: assess candidates and more extensive criteria; answer candidate questions 5. Final round presentation: selected candidates – candidates develop their own 10 minute presentation and assessed on 4 criteria The leadership team and vice presidents review all candidate evaluations, and make recommendations in consultation with the advisor This is a paid university position, so offers come from the full-time professional HAWKS advisor Questions and ways to contact HAWKS regarding the process
Presenter:
Stephanie Lowry, Kathleen Koviak & Milan Karne
Description:
The reality of THC use (and the smell of cannabis) on campus is here to stay–learn how university policies differ, and begin a discussion about best practice in responding to incidents of cannabis use.
Presenter:
Cynthia Sloan & Heather Patacca / Emma Spalding / William Mynk
Description:
The Generation Rx team effectively collaborates with The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy Experiential Team, and university students to provide medication safety to the community. Through age-appropriate and engaging toolkits, along with the Generation Rx Ambassadors curriculum, both undergraduate and professional pharmacy students are equipped to educate individuals of all ages on the importance of medication safety when it comes to use, storage and disposal. Thus, this session will focus on identifying best practices for building capacity using health professional students as peer educators. We will explore questions such as, “What is the planning process needed to engage health professional students as peer educators?”, “What are effective methods for recruiting health professional students to engage in prevention programming?”, and “Once recruited, what communication strategies best support preparing or training health professional students to serve as effective peer educators?”. By exploring these questions, participants will leave with practical tips and suggestions for engaging health professional university students as peer educators within the field of alcohol and other drug prevention.
9:45 – 10:45 a.m. – Breakout Sessions
Presenters:
Danielle Wolfe
Description:
This presentation will guide attendees in assessing the programs and services offered to recovery students. Attendees will walk away with multiple strategies that impact students on the individual, small group and college system levels used at IUPUI.
Presenters:
Chris Wood
Description:
Whether smoke or vape, the landscape of tobacco and marijuana/THC product use among college students is rapidly evolving. Dive into research on substance use among 31,000+ fraternity/sorority members by exploring tobacco & marijuana/THC behaviors & perspectives. Discuss findings & how they impact practice & policy. Learn about usage patterns & identify strategies for promoting student safety. Attendees will engage in discussions about how this research can influence and inform practice and policy and will facilitate important conversations to identify strategies for promoting safety with students.
11:00 – 12:30 p.m. – Closing Keynote
Presenters:
Re’Nesha Weston
Description:
In this session, Gen-Z panelists will discuss important aspects of prevention, harm reduction, and recovery while sharing their perspectives, experiences, and ideas for change.
