Information for Peer Education Advisors

Looking to improve your comprehensive prevention programming and need some ideas on how to do it? BACCHUS can help!

The BACCHUS Network™ is offereing staff facilitated trainings on a variety of health and safety topics for your campus. Take advantage of these affordable opportunities, with prices ranging from $1,000 for a half-day training or consultation to $2,500 for a day and a half training (includes travel).

BACCHUS will send a senior staff member on a site visit to consult with you, your chief student affairs officer, your students, your campus or community task force, and other key stakeholders to assess program strengths and suggest ways to improve prevention efforts. This structured visit will include a follow up report to assist you with future strategic planning, writing for grants, and budget development.

Screening and Brief Intervention (SBI) has emerged as an effective tool to reduce college alcohol abuse. This training provides a brief screening tool and incorporates motivational interviewing techniques to assit student life staff in having intentional conversations with students. Participants will leave with tools for implementing SBI and resources for assisting students to consider a behavior change.

Does the idea of brining in our national trainer to conduct BACCHUS CPE Training for your campus sound appealing? You can utilize the convenient and affordable option of having The BACCHUS Network™ come to your campus and conduct the training. A BACCHUS staff member will work with you every step of the way to plan the CPE training. The independetly evaluated CPE program has increased knowledge, confidence, and skills in peer educators completing the training. For less than the cost of many national speakers who present for an hour, you can have a 12-hour training that empowers your students to commit to healthy and safe lifestyle choices.

Tobacco cessation for young adults is a challenging piece of the campus tobacco control puzzle. BACCHUS staff members have expertise in providing cessation efforts on campus. A full-day training includes the top 10 list of campus cessation efforts including: assessment; empathy for addiction; Stages of Change; working with health and counseling centers; medications; cessation groups; technology; targeted promotion; events; staff involvement; and national resources. Participants will leave with strategies for implementing a comprehensive cessation program on campus.

This two-day training will utilize the expertise of BACCHUS staff members to provide you with tobacco policy development specifics. The training will develop the participants' ability to do the following: assess the needs of the campus, build a task force, build capacity, develop the right policy, educate on tobacco and policy, gain support from key stakeholders, and support implementation and compliance of a newly developed policy.

Are you having a hard time moving from tobacco policy development theory to action? Have you already been through the Campus Tobacco Policy Development Training? Does your campus tobacco task force feel frustrated that they cannot get buy-in to pass a tobacco-free policy? Are there other campuses in your state experiencing the same frustration? With the assistance of the BACCHUS staff, you will walk away from this full-day training with a three-year strategic plan that is individualized for your campus. The BACCHUS staff will go over the importance of strategic planning, provide model strategic plans to work from, and provide individualized technical assistance to develop a strategic plan that will best work for all campuses in attendance. Invite neighboring campuses to attend the training, share the costs, and build support between campuses.

For more information on fees and scheduling, please contact Ann Quinn-Zobeck, Director of Education and Training.

On-Campus Trainings