Get Involved: Alcohol 101+

Encourage students to make responsible decisions about alcohol on campus

Colleges systematically incorporate Alcohol 101 Plus™ into substance abuse prevention programming to have significant influence on the students' ability to make safe and responsible decisions about alcohol. Administrators and educators implement Alcohol 101 Plus™ on their campuses because they are confident it will go a long way to not only raise awareness among students, but also to keep their students safe.

Set on a "virtual campus," Alcohol 101 Plus™ specifically targets at-risk populations of the student body: Freshmen, Greeks, student-athletes, and judicial policy offenders. Through interactive video scenarios, users have an opportunity to make "virtual" decisions for "virtual" characters. For example, users can visit a first-year dorm and choose whether or not the freshman character takes a drink, or visit the off-campus bar and decide whether the basketball star should take a drink days before "the big game." When the user makes a wrong choice, Alcohol 101 Plus™ reveals the consequences of their bad decision.

Alcohol 101 Plus™ is available online at www.alcohol101plus.org [1]. Alcohol 101 Plus™ online features the B4Udrink tutorial which provides the user with the opportunity to learn important information about how alcohol can affect their body, friends, and campus life, and enables educators to administer pre- and post- surveys for students, access to test results, and access to downloadable educational materials including a Facilitator's Guide with learning objectives and recommended activities for each content section of the program. Click here [1] to visit Alcohol 101 Plus™ online.

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Research findings show:

  • Success as a teaching tool
  • Statistically significant gains in knowledge after program use
  • Student attitudes and individual responsibility improved

"College administrators across the nation state that confronting alcohol abuse is one of their top priorities. Alcohol 101 Plus™ is an important tool that helps to address this significant problem on campus. The program helps campus leaders with cost-effective strategies to help shape behaviors in positive directions."
- David S. Anderson, Ph.D., Director, Center for the Advancement of Public Health, College of Education and Human Development, George Mason University.

"We are proud to launch The Century Council's Alcohol 101 Plus™ program at California State University at Fullerton, and I am confident that it is, and will continue to be, an essential and effective tool to help college students make right choices concerning alcohol."
- Mary Hermann, Director of Health Education, California State University at Fullerton

 

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Development
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Evaluation
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Source URL (retrieved on 01/08/2009 - 5:46pm): http://www.centurycouncil.org/stop-underage-drinking/initiatives/alcohol101plus/get-involved

Links:
[1] http://www.alcohol101plus.org
[2] http://www.centurycouncil.org/learn-the-facts/research#895
[3] http://www.centurycouncil.org/stop-underage-drinking/initiatives/alcohol101plus
[4] http://www.centurycouncil.org/see-our-work/development/alcohol101plus
[5] http://www.centurycouncil.org/see-our-work/evaluation/alcohol101plus