Campus Services
The PEP-AH framework identifies the following high-level recommendations:
- Establish and maintain a system to monitor drinking behaviours, risk factors and impacts, with regular reporting mechanisms
- Support initiatives for screening and brief interventions for hazardous and harmful drinking
- Strengthen emergency health services to enhance on-campus safety and ability to respond to medical emergencies related to alcohol
The framework suggests the following initiatives:
- Conduct regular survey of students' alcohol use, knowledge, attitudes and consequences
- Provide expectancy challenge interventions
- Promote protective behavioural strategies interventions
- Provide brief motivational interviewing
- Inform students about on-campus safety services
- Ensure that emergency health services have proper training to respond to alcohol-related emergencies
Dalhousie supports these recommendations and initiatives through:
- Ongoing participation in the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) survey
- Data collection and reporting for campus- and residence-based alcohol-related incidents
- Participation in the Canadian University Survey Consortium (CUSC)
- Start on Track programming
- Residence and International Centre conduct/wellness meetings
- Keep it Social booths and displays during high-risk periods and events
- Promoting the DalSAFE app
- Proactive email communications before major events (Homecoming, Halloween)
- Security Services ongoing training (training to respond to alcohol-related emergencies)
- DMCRT (Dalhousie Medical Campus Response Team) services