About Us: Successes & Strides

Maine's Higher Education Alcohol Prevention Partnership uses a web of evidence-based strategies to tackle the issue at many different levels: individual, group, campus, community, state, and national.

Here are some of our recent successes and strides:

• Increasing cross-campus networking and collaboration around high-risk drinking and related issues

• Furthering the development of campus-community coalitions and the use of evidence-based prevention strategies

• Increasing higher education’s inclusion in state-level prevention field and strategic planning

• Developing a web site to increase awareness and knowledge around college high-risk drinking and related issues

• Conducting a training for over four hundred resident assistants on how to build a lower-risk alcohol environment in the residence halls

• Partnering with the Muskie School of Public Service to investigate the impact of mental health and substance abuse on student retention

• Being highlighted at national conferences as a leader in the area of statewide initiatives addressing campus substance abuse