Education and Training Opportunities

Ohio College Initiative to Reduce High Risk Drinking:

Drug-Free Action Alliance offers the list of education and training opportunities as a resource for members of the Ohio College Initiative. The information provided is from the marketing materials of the identified workshop or conference. If you know of an education or training opportunity to include in this listing - including relevant educational opportunities on your campus - please e-mail the information to Drug-Free Action Alliance at contact@drugfreeactionalliance.org.

November 6 , 2008

 
Ohio College Initiative: Small Ohio Colleges Prevention Alliance (SOCPA)
 
  • Bi-Annual meeting for College Project Directors for schools of enrollment under 5,000

    Location    : Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio
    Time: 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

    Agenda: click here
    Registration Form: click here
 
For more information, contact Marcie Seidel

November 13 , 2008

 
Drug Free Action Alliance Virtual Training "How to Defend Keeping the Minimum Legal Drinking Age 21"
 
  • Conference Call: Phone and Internet Connection Needed
  • Will present facts and research on the history of lowering the drinking age trends in Europe, New Zealand and the new research on the developing brain.

    Location    : Virtual Training
    Time: 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

    Registration Information: click here
 
For more information, contact Emilie Brown

November 16-19 , 2008

 
U.S. Department of Education's 22nd Annual National Meeting on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention in Higher Education
 
  • Ensuring the Safety and Well-Being of Our Students: Widening the Lens of Prevention"

    Location    : St. Paul, Minnesota
    Time: Agenda Information Available at Registration site.
 
For more information, visit: http://edc.higheredcenter.org/natl/2008

December 3 , 2008

 

All Ohio College Initiative Project Directors and team members
Drive-by Workshop: Generation Rx and the Abuse of Medication in a Drug-Taking Society
 
  • Presenters: The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy.
  • This session will explore the nature of “Generation Rx†and ramifications for the use and abuse of prescription and non- prescription medications in the pharmaceutical era. Statistics relating to the misuse of these medications in general and among college students in particular will be discussed. Specific medications which are prone to abuse will be described. Collegiate educational programming to inform students about these issues will be considered as well as potential inter-institutional collaborations.

    Location    : Drug Free Action Alliance, Columbus, Ohio
    Time: 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

    Registration Information: click here
 
For more information, contact Marcie Seidel