Navigating Prescription Drug Landscape: From Prevalence to Prevention Learning Collaborative

Navigating Prescription Drug Landscape: From Prevalence to Prevention Learning Collaborative is a 5-part series utilizing the Social Ecological Model to craft comprehensive prevention plans for collegiate prescription drug misuse. The series highlights the multifaceted needs of college students, exploring the role of campus environments in supporting their well-being. It analyzes national data on medication misuse, identifies motivations behind such behaviors, and provides skills and strategies at the individual level to mitigate harms and bolster overall student well-being. The subsequent parts focus on interpersonal strategies, organizational change for administrators, collaborative community approaches, and policy progression to address prescription drug misuse systematically and foster a safer collegiate environment.

Live Sessions Include:

Empowering Collegiate Wellness: Navigating Individual Challenges in the Prescription Drug Landscape

February 21, 2024 at 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET | Presented by Dr. Emily Baker

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the multifaceted needs of college students as whole individuals, including the role campus environments play toward supporting their well-being
• Identify skills and strategies at the individual level that help lower harms associated with medication misuse behaviors and support both academic and personal aspects of student well-being
• Analyze the motivations behind students’ misuse of both prescription and counterfeit medication
• Examine national data sets that report the current scope of medication misuse behaviors by college students

Nurturing Connections: Interpersonal Strategies to Address Nonmedical Prescription Drug Use on College Campuses

March 6, 2024 at 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET | Presented by Dr. Emily Pasman

Learning Objectives:

• Identify modifiable interpersonal factors that influence student needs related to prescription drug use.
• List campus and host community resources that can support prescription drug prevention and recovery efforts.
• Discuss approaches for fostering collaboration among host community organizations, campus professionals, students, and their family members, to develop a network for supporting students’ prescription drug-related goals.

Cultivating Organizational Change: Strategies for Collegiate Administrators in Addressing Prescription Drug Misuse

March 20, 2024 at 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET | Presented by Re’Nesha Weston

Learning Objectives:

• Examine how to secure administrator buy-in to address medication misuse harms, emphasizing the importance of a coordinated organizational response.
• Describe approaches to address and overcome administrative stigma associated with medication misuse behaviors, fostering an environment of empathy, understanding, and support.

Fostering Community Wellness: Collaborative Approaches to Harm Reduction in Collegiate Settings

April 3, 2024 at 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET | Presented by Dr. Kimberly Boulden, Sydney Cheifetz, MPH & Dylan Dunn, MS

Learning Objectives:

• Examine approaches for collaborating with host community organizations to strengthen harm reduction initiatives, fostering partnerships that leverage the diverse resources and perspectives present in the collegiate environment.
• Reflect on the potential for stigma associated with medication misuse and identify guidelines to avoid exacerbating stigma in community-based interventions
• Practice applying skills to facilitate open and constructive dialogue within the host and campus community, encouraging a supportive atmosphere for harm reduction efforts and promoting a shared responsibility for student well-being.

Policy Progression: Safeguarding Collegiate Health through Medication Practices

April 25, 2024 at 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET | Presented by Dr. Allison Smith

Learning Objectives:

• Identify strategies across the socio-ecological model that work together to create campus environments that foster safe medication practices
• Examine campus and host community policies that help lower harms associated with medication misuse behaviors

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