Strategy 1: Reduce High-Risk Drinking and Associated Harm
Priority 1.1
Create a sustainable structure for reducing high-risk drinking within student organizations
Tactics
- Tactic 1.1a - Expand or enhance the implementation of effective alcohol programming based on best practices recommended in the College AIM
- Tactic 1.1b - Implement evidence-informed interventions with Fraternity and Sorority Life members throughout their college experience
- Tactic 1.1c - Develop and implement a plan for a sustainable delayed recruitment process for Fraternity and Sorority Life
- Tactic 1.1d - Work with Fraternity and Sorority Life student leaders and staff to implement pre-joining education for potential new members that promotes well-being and harm reduction
- Tactic 1.1e - Support Student Wellness and Leadership, Service and Civic Engagement as they provide educational support for student organizations hosting events in spaces that sell alcohol
Updates
Fall 2022 -
- In collaboration with Leadership, Service and Civic Engagement, Student Wellness staff met with six registered student organization leaders who planned and submitted events where alcohol would be present. Student Wellness staff and students discussed event protocols, communication, and safety strategies regarding substance use. Each student representative that met with Student Wellness was provided a handout to share with their organization on protective behaviors for students that choose to not drink or drink alcohol.
- Student Wellness staff developed and started implementing a three-year rotation of Alcohol & U sessions for fraternity and sorority members. Each year, SW staff will offer a workshop to each FSL chapter (part 1 in 2022-2023; part 2 in 2023-2024, part 3 in 2024-2025).
Priority 1.2
Collaborate with the Anti-Violence Coalition in order to align efforts and support tactics within the Anti-Violence Plan
Tactics
- Tactic 1.2a - Collaborate with campus and community partners to prioritize protective environments
- Tactic 1.2b - Collaborate with partners in prevention (Student Wellness, Violence Prevention Team, etc.) to develop appropriate and consistent messaging around the role that alcohol can play in sexual violence
- Tactic 1.2c - Align messaging on consent and alcohol use within the FSL tiered alcohol education and violence prevention programs
Updates
- Fall 2023 – This was the 2nd year we offered Gameday Grab ‘n’ Go food and water at 4 home games. We served over 9600 bottles of water and 8000 pizza slices/burritos/cookies/donuts
- Spring 2023 – The Violence Prevention Team and Student Wellness discussed and implemented changes in their respective programs around language used to provide consistency and intentionality when addressing consent and intoxication
- Fall 2022 - The Division of Student Life hosted four Grab ‘n’ Go food and water stations on football game days. The stations served over 9,000 patrons.
Priority 1.3
Assist with targeted efforts towards graduate and professional students per the recommendations of the Graduate and Professional Needs Assessment Work Group
Tactics
- Tactic 1.3a - Partner to provide opportunities for graduate and professional students to build community outside of their academic programs or departments, include robust summer programming
- Tactic 1.3b - Collaborate on the development of a comprehensive plan with University Counseling Service, Student Health, Student Care & Assistance, Student Wellness, Recreational Services and the graduate and professional colleges to evaluate and create opportunities for improved mental health and well-being support for graduate and professional students
Updates
- Fall 2022 - The Well-Being and Mental Health Campus Collaborative subcommittees conducted extensive inventories of services, programs, and initiatives for faculty/staff and all students in the following priority areas: Built and Natural Environment; Food, Nutrition & Movement; Collaborative Leadership; Connections, Inclusion & Purpose; Mental Health and Resilience; and Substance Use
Priority 1.4
Help students to learn about and make the connection between alcohol use and its potential impact on other areas of well-being
Tactics
- Tactic 1.4a - Provide skill building opportunities and other support resources for students that increase effective coping skills/resilience building and decrease the reliance on alcohol
- Tactic 1.4b - Assist Student Wellness, University Counseling Service and other potential partners in expanding their mindfulness program opportunities to increase awareness and use by students
Updates
Fall 2022 -
- Student Wellness has committed to training another staff member to be a Koru Mindfulness teacher with a projected completion of all requirements early next Spring (for reference, that will be 6 total Koru teachers on staff).
- UCS continues to offer a three week, 60-minute workshop focused on learning distress tolerance skills. Distress tolerance is the ability to manage distressing emotions and effectively move through stressful situations in an effective manner. This workshop has a foundation in mindfulness and is based on Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Additionally, UCS offers workshops to learn coping strategies and tools to manage symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Strategy 2: Provide Tailored Support for all Students on the Continuum from Abstinence to High-Risk Use
Priority 2.1
Develop and implement messaging that addresses the continuum of alcohol use rather than promoting the idea that students are either a non-drinker or a drinker
Tactics
- Tactics are under development
Updates
- Ongoing
Priority 2.2
Identify, develop, and promote intentional ways to connect students who choose not to drink, particularly in the residence halls
Tactics
- Tactic 2.2a - Utilize resources and messaging to create spaces on campus that normalize and celebrate sobriety and recovery
- Tactic 2.2b - Incorporate questions and discussion regarding substance use during resident assistant meetings with each of their residents once per year
Updates
- Fall 2023 – The Collegiate Recovery Program (CRP) trained 8 students and staff on the Recovery Ally training.
Priority 2.3
Provide a rich landscape of events and activities that de-centralize alcohol use
Tactics
- Tactic 2.3a - Normalize participation and collaboration in Late Night Programming offerings including collaborations between:
- UI student groups and departments
- UI and the Iowa City Downtown District
- Tactic 2.3b - Strengthen the collaboration between Student Life and Iowa City Downtown District in providing opportunities and events for students in downtown spaces (this includes Late Night)
- Advocate for healthier messaging around alcohol in downtown spaces
- Tactic 2.3c - Engage students in the process of updating the 47 Things campaign
- Tactic 2.3d - Provide support to Leadership and Engagement as they work to connect students to organizations and traditions on campus
Updates
- Fall 2023 – Members of Undergraduate Student Government (USG) provided feedback and suggestions to the 47 Things draft
- Spring 2023 – Bijou FilmScene $4 Fridays and After-Hours showings:
- Students can get tickets to new release movies (e.g. Top Gun: Maverick) for only $4 every Friday all year long; 1274 attendees
- After Hours is a 10pm showing of late-night cult classics every Saturday night during the academic year. These are free for students and hosted by Bijou Film Board.
- Attendance – 4051 unique attendees
- # of Sessions – 10 Months
- Fall 2022 - A charge and work group were identified to organize, review and update the list of 47 Things - a list of Iowa traditions to celebrate and encourage participation in the traditions that support a sense of belonging to the Hawkeye community. The work group is sponsored by the Alcohol Harm Reduction Advisory Committee and the Student Success Team.
Priority 2.4
Focus on building community through the Collegiate Recovery Program
Tactics
- Tactics are under development.
Updates
- Ongoing
Strategy 3: Foster a Culture of Care, Integrity and Compliance
Priority 3.1
Increase competency of bystanders to safely intervene through the creation of intentional, coordinated, collaborative alcohol and trauma-informed sexual assault programming
Tactics
- Tactic 3.1a - Require bystander intervention training of leadership for all student organizations
Updates
- Ongoing
Priority 3.2
Implement protective environment strategies on campus and in partnership with the broader community
Tactics
- Tactic 3.2a - Utilize practices from Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) in collaboration with the Iowa City Downtown District (eg. Lighting to improve safety)
Updates
Fall 2023 –
- ICDD has begun to work with local businesses to improve public facing spaces that contribute to the nighttime protective environments using CPTED principles
- ICDD is working to light more alley spaces as they are a pedestrian path in nightlife
Fall 2022 –
- ICDD conducted a Night Audit downtown identifying areas that are potential safety concerns (dark, secluded areas)
- UI co-sponsored a lighting project with ICDD to install new canopy lighting in the ped mall alley leading to South Linn Street
- ICDD is focusing on Urban Acupuncture - regenerating an urban area with the goal of having a transformative and revitalizing impact on that area and its surroundings around the ped mall and surrounding areas
Priority 3.3
Convene a Hazing Prevention Coalition and utilize strategies in the Hazing Prevention Framework
Tactics
- Tactic 3.3a - Garner public commitment and resources from leadership and other stakeholders on hazing prevention work on campus
- Tactic 3.3b - Develop and implement an assessment plan that examines the state of hazing on our campus as well as the effectiveness of hazing prevention programs and practices
- Tactic 3.3c - Implement evidence-informed programs and interventions around hazing prevention for all student organizations on campus
Updates
- Fall 2022 -
- An Undergraduate Research Fellow was utilized to continue assessment work on hazing and will continue through the Spring.
- The Hazing Prevention Coalition reconvened in Summer 2022 and received a budget allocation for FY23 to provide education, training, data collection, and increase awareness of the issue on campus
Priority 3.4
Expand accountability structure for all student organizations to create a culture of care, integrity, and compliance
Tactics
- Tactic 3.4a - Review extent of alcohol-related Code of Student Life infractions within student organizations
- Tactic 3.4b - Increase mechanisms to assist with accountability for alcohol-related infractions within student organizations
- Tactic 3.4c - Implement resolution circles in resolving cases of misconduct
- Tactic 3.4d - Educate student organization leaders on the foundations of and barriers to creating safe and healthy organizational culture
Updates
- Summer 2023 – Over 30 staff from Housing & Dining, Student Care & Assistance, Student Wellness, Office of Student Accountability, Public Safety, and Office of Institutional Equity engaged in a three-day restorative practices training. Follow-up conversations have taken place with many of those trained and steps have been taken to incorporate restorative principles into daily work.
Priority 3.5
Work with local departments on enforcement and restorative practices
Tactics
- Tactic 3.5a - Discuss current and future enforcement practices with UI Department of Public Safety and Iowa City Police Department
- Frame discussion around College AIM Environmental Strategy: Enforce Age 21 drinking age
- Tactic 3.5b - Pilot Patron Scan with a downtown establishment during the Fall 2022 semester, in partnership with the Iowa City Downtown District
Updates
Fall 2023 – Partnered with Mediation Services of Eastern Iowa to learn more about how restorative practices are used in Johnson County and how the university can participate in resolution conversations in conjunction with the Johnson County court processes.
Fall 2022 – ICDD worked with a retail establishment to pilot a scanner ID tool (Patron Scan) for the fall 2022. They determined it did not meet the needs and was cost prohibitive at the time. We will continue to explore other opportunities/programs that would support community businesses around harm reduction.
Priority 3.6
Include harm reduction education and discussion in groups focused on fostering authentic masculinity
Tactics
- Tactic 3.6a - Provide support for the Men and Masculinities Coalition
- Tactic 3.6b - Evaluate participation and outcomes of the Better Men, Better Hawkeyes Initiative to determine viability to reinitiate or to develop an alternative program that accomplishes similar goals
Updates
Spring 2023 - Masculinity Education Programming Evaluation and Proposal Work Group was formed to identify existing masculinity education on campus, outline how to integrate alcohol harm reduction messaging/information into current masculinity education and if no/limited masculinity education exists, recommend education that should be provided.
Strategy 4: Institutionalize Commitment to Harm Reduction
Priority 4.1
Expand harm reduction education to faculty, staff, and students
Tactics
- Tactic 4.1a - Provide resources and include communication on well-being for self and students to faculty and staff, especially during their onboarding
- Tactic 4.1b - Provide education for Undergraduate Student Government, Graduate & Professional Student Government and Graduate Student Senate
Updates
Fall 2023 – Presented to Undergraduate Student Government (USG) in an Open Access meeting in December. Shared the Alcohol Harm Reduction Plan, provided updates, highlighted areas of opportunity for collaboration and asked for feedback on the 47 Things to do at Iowa.
Priority 4.2
Continue to provide and expand on resources allocated to harm reduction efforts (staff, funding for programming, supplies, etc.)
Tactics
- Tactics are under development.
Updates
- Ongoing
Priority 4.3
Review and align policies to support institutional harm reduction goals
Tactics
- Tactic 4.3a - Clarify, communicate, and provide support regarding policy for student organizations in relation to events with alcohol use
- Tactic 4.3b - Assist with the implementation of recommendations that came from the assessment of the Alcohol Pilot Program with Athletics
Updates
- Ongoing
Ongoing Initiatives
- Expand Fraternity & Sorority Life accountability action summary initiative as a pilot to other student organizations
- Implement ongoing structure of a Fraternity & Sorority Life subcommittee reporting to AHR committee and leadership each semester
- Continue with Collegiate Recovery Program initiatives
- Explore opportunities to collaborate with addiction medicine, public health, and other academic programs
- Implement population-segmented communication campaigns about alcohol and other drugs
- Continue to provide parents with the Parent Handbook for Talking with College Students about Alcohol
- Implement a communication plan (including website) for AHR plans, strategies, and ways campus can support plan
- Work collaboratively with Partnership for Alcohol Safety, Iowa City Downtown District, and other partner organizations
- Continue to monitor off-campus violations