10 Things Every Student Should Know About Drinking View video clips of this program.

A one-hour interactive program for male and female audiences of all sizes.

Are you at your wits' end with alcohol programming?  It seems that reaching students is getting harder and harder. Scare tactic programs don't work. Personal-experience programs are only powerful and effective for short-term behavioral impact. "Don't drink" programs mean nothing to students who want to get wasted while drinking from cups eight times the size of the average human bladder. "This is how alcohol affects your brain programs" put students to sleep—and they know how alcohol affects their brains—that's why they drink it. Your social norming efforts are beginning to bear fruit, but these efforts are mostly passive.  Programming with both active and passive approaches would give you a more comprehensive impact, if you could find an active program that complemented your campus alcohol philosophy.  You can…

“Ten Things” is a program that will help you to reinforce your harm reduction emphasis, underline key enforcement initiatives, encourage the use of protective behaviors, empower bystander intervention and discourage the enabling of high-risk consumption.  But, "Ten Things" is not about having a dry campus or telling students not to drink. This program will reinforce those students who choose not to drink, or to drink moderately.  But, many of our students are going to drink no matter what we do—so let's get them drinking smarter and drinking more safely.

"BUT YOU CAN'T TEACH STUDENTS HOW TO DRINK!"
No, any moron with a hand and a mouth can figure out how to do that for themselves. Just like anyone can get behind the wheel of a car and figure out pretty quickly how to get it to move. But, classes and licenses are needed to understand advanced control and the rules of the road. Drinking is no different than driving in this regard. It involves a skill set to be done safely and properly. No one is teaching this skill set to students for fear that they will drink or drink more. Do people who take driver's education drive more because they took the class? Many of our students are going to drink. They are going to endanger themselves. We have an obligation to help them build the skill-set that will allow them to reduce their risk. Doing so will have a long-term behavioral impact, because it changes how students process and control their drinking.

THIS PROGRAM DOES NOT TEACH STUDENTS HOW TO DRINK!
Brett Sokolow has been programming about sexual assault and alcohol risk reduction for ten years. He is President of the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management. He has done over 1,300 programs at colleges and high schools around the country. He is a seasoned and experienced presenter with student audiences of all sizes and types. Brett offers a frank and blunt reality talk that students tune into and respect. And a little bit of dry wit can't hurt, but this is not a stand-up comedy act. Brett uses compelling stories and real-life legal cases to make his points, engaging the audience every step of the way.  Additionally, Brett can work in data from your school's policies, CORE, NCHA or other student AOD surveys to reinforce your existing on-campus efforts.

Here are the topics that this program will cover:

1. Alcohol Myths and Facts
2. Can You Drink Less to Enjoy Alcohol More?
3. Be 21, or Understand the Consequences if You Aren't
4. How to Get What You Want Out of Drinking (and Avoid What You Don’t)
5. Planning Your Drinking (and How to Stick to Your Plan)
6. Understand Signs of Alcohol Poisoning (and What to Do to Help a Friend)
7. Portion Control/Food/Pace – and Other Key Protective Behaviors
8. Use the Buddy System (Smartly!)
9. The Effect of Drinking Games and Pre-Gaming
10. Being Conscious of Shifts in Your Tolerance

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In addition to our student programs, NCHERM offers more than thirty risk management workshops which can accompany any student program.

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