The University's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Team ended 2001 by winning three national awards from the BACCHUS and GAMMA Peer Education Network. Now this group of University students is gearing up for a semester filled with new programs and facing increased requests for presentations.
ADAPT received an Outstanding Network Affiliate Award and an Outstanding Program award from BACCHUS and GAMMA. ADAPT founding member and chairwoman Jill Ingram received the Outstanding Student Award.
BACCHUS and GAMMA is an international organization of college- and university-based peer education programs concentrating on alcohol abuse prevention and other student health and safety issues.
"I think we received these awards because of the dedication of the group," said Susan Bruce, director of the University's Center for Alcohol and Substance Education. "I think that the size of the group also helps. We are small enough that everyone has a responsibility and steps up to the plate."
Bruce said she nominated Ingram for the Outstanding Student Award, and Dean of Students Penny Rue also wrote Ingram a recommendation.
Ingram was featured in the January 2002 edition of GAMMA's Peer Educator magazine after winning this award.
"Jill has really helped facilitate the development of this group," Bruce said.
ADAPT enters this semester with an increased number of requests for presentations of programs dealing with alcohol and drug abuse, Ingram said.
Last semester ADAPT began presenting a program called "I know what you did last night ... but you don't," which depicts the effects of binge drinking, she said.
ADAPT will begin presenting a new program called "Sassy, Strong and Supportive" this semester.
"We developed 'Sassy, Strong and Supportive' last semester, and it is a program targeted toward women and deals with how alcohol affects women and men differently," ADAPT member Ali Kruszewski said. "We will mainly be presenting it to women's halls and sororities."
Recruitment also will be one of ADAPT's primary focus's for the semester, Kruszewski said.
"We really want to get a great group of new members," she said.
ADAPT also is working to develop three new programs promoting healthy living in college, which will focus on different aspects of substance abuse, Ingram said.
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