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Beginning April 23rd, during the United Nations
Global Road Safety Week, The BACCHUS Network
is teaming with National Organizations for Youth
Safety (NOYS) to enlist college students
across the
country to show their support for preventing the
number one killer of Americans under 33 years of
age. Online petitions will be
sent to the
governors of all 50 states during the first
week of May to show them
America's
youth support traffic safety and making May
National
Youth Traffic Safety Month across the nation.
Many Americans my age have been personally
affected by traffic accidents on America's
roads and
highways; I am not different. My uncle Chuck was
killed on a rural highway when a semi
collided with
his motorcycle. My mother, distraught over
the loss of
her brother, believed there was a chance she
could
have a boy in his honor. Roughly nine months
later
on Valentine's Day, 1986, your current Student
Advisor Committee Member, Chance Dorland, was
born in Des Moines, IA. If your life has
been affected
by traffic accidents or you support taking
down the
number one killer of college students, young
adults,
and children, log onto SignForSafety.org and Sign The Petition.
Get your campus group involved, speak to your
professors, talk to your student body, and
get the
information out. This is a fantastic, one
time,
opportunity to make a huge difference. I
encourage you to read the petition and make a
decision within the next week.
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I am honored to present the Peer Educators of
Bryant University for the Area 10 Campus
Profile.
Students, myself included, had the privilege
to experience
something amazing during this year's Area 10
Spring
Conference but may have been unprepared for what
they would find. "Drawing the Shades"
(written by
April Elliot, chronicling both hetero and
homosexual students to demonstrate that
everyone is
vulnerable to rape) is the most effective student
presentation I have ever seen. I cannot thank
the students of
Bryant enough for sharing this experience
with their
fellow Area 10 Members.
"Drawing the Shades" has been presented by the Peer Educators of Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, for the past five years. The current cast features Caitlin Ryan (Top Left), Taryn Beaudoin (Top Right), Brian Ford (Bottom Left), and Alan Waters (Bottom Right), with assistance from Kevin Malloy and the group's advisor, Amy Bartlett. These hard working men and women offer many
programs throughout the year such as Alcohol
Awareness, World AIDS Day, and Safe Spring
Break. "Drawing the Shades" has proven to be
a key
program in their line-up that has shown to
increase group recruitment and get through to
students
at a crucial point in their college career.
Thank you for making
this year's Area 10 Conference in Orono,
Maine, something I
will never forget.
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Wanted: A Few Good Campuses
If "a few" equals "two", then we need a few good campuses to host two Area 10 events in the next academic year! These are great opportunities to increase visibility for your campus, your peer education group and to contribute to increasing involvement in peer education. First up is the regional Certified Peer
Educator (CPE)
Training, to be held in late September or
early October
2007. The exact date will be determined in
conjunction with the host campus. This only
requires one
room with a simple set-up and help with
registering
participants. And it's a chance to get your
own peer educators
trained on your own campus without having to
travel!
And while a couple of campuses have already
expressed
interest in hosting in 2008, I am always on
the lookout for
possible hosts for the Area 10
Conference. Held
each spring in late March or early April
2008, this two-day event
is the centerpiece of Area 10 activities. It
takes a firm
commitment to conference planning, but is
well supported by
the area leadership team and the national
office throughout
planning.
Contact me at 860.685.2466 or by email at lcurrie@wesleyan.edu
if you are interested or have questions. Thanks!
Lisa Currie
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Advisor's Conference
Sunday, June 17 to Tuesday, June 19, 2007 in Denver, CO Social Norms Conference Sunday, July 15 to Tuesday, July 17, 2007 in Cambridge, MA. Area 10 Certified Peer Educator Training September or October 2007 with location to be announced (Look for info on hosting this training above) General Assembly Thursday, November 7 to Saturday, November 9, 2007 in Atlanta, GA National Tobacco Symposium on Young Adults Spring 2008 with location to be announced Area 10 Spring Conference 2008 Spring 2008 with location to be announced (Look for info on hosting this training above) |
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On Learning from Your Mistakes
Thomas Edison tried two thousand different materials in search of a filament for the light bulb. When none worked satisfactorily, his assistant complained, "All our work is in vain. We have learned nothing." Edison replied very confidently, "Oh, we have come a long way and we have learned a lot. We now that there are two thousand elements which we cannot use to make a good light bulb." |
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The National Conference For Advisors of Peer Education Groups is being held June 17 to 19, 2007 in Denver, Colorado. Whether you are new to advising peer education groups or a seasoned veteran, the 2007 National Conference for Advisors of Peer Education Groups has something for you. This year's conference looks to be terrific, so start looking for the spare change in the dark corners of your budget to support your work as an advisor! Join your colleagues from across the country
as we discuss the
challenges, solutions, and rewards of
advising peer educators.
Learn how to implement evidence and theory based
approaches to creating change on campus.
Discover new
strategies to recruit and motivate students.
Improve your skills
in advising student groups, avoiding burnout,
finding
funding and support, and evaluating your efforts.
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If you're on Facebook, be sure to join the
BACCHUS
Network global group. Just search for
"BACCHUS Network"
and join this open group to share ideas and
keep in
touch on upcoming BACCHUS events!
The BACCHUS Student Advisory Committee will be
using our Facebook group to give one peer
education
group a free registration fee to this year's
General
Assembly in Atlanta, Georgia. Keep reading
the Area
10 Newsletter and checking Facebook for more
details.
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If you have questions about BACCHUS, please
contact a
member of your Area 10 Leadership Team:
Area 10 Consultant Lisa Currie, Director of Health Education, Wesleyan University lcurrie@wesleyan.edu 860.685.2466 State Coordinator (Connecticut & Rhode
Island)
Joleen M. Nevers, Health Education Coordinator, University of Connecticut joleen.nevers@uconn. edu 860.486.0772 State Coordinator (Massachusetts)
Ann M. Doyle, Outreach Education Coordinator, Alcohol/Drug Program, Bridgewater State College adoyle@bridgew.edu 508.531.2274 Student Advisory Committee Member
Chance Dorland, Healthy Options Peer Educators (HOPE), Emerson College area10sac@bac chusnetwork.org 617.372.1392 Wanted: State Coordinator for Maine, New
Hampshire and
Vermont! Please contact Lisa Currie for
details!
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Consider this, if you made a yearbook
containing the photos of those killed in car
crashes in
2006, putting 12 photos on each page, it
would have 3,500
pages. If you wanted to limit your traffic-death
yearbook to a manageable 400 pages, you'd
either have to
squeeze more than 100 photos onto each page or
issue an eight-volume set (Peter J. Wooley,
Washington Post, 12/28/06). In the United
States, automobile deaths are the leading
cause of
death for all people age3 to 33. When youth
are given the
privilege to drive they are handed the keys
to their
safety of those riding with them and the
others on the road.
Safety is not an accident; youth can take
specific actions to be
safer as drivers and passengers.
A one shot campaign will not create change -
it can raise
awareness - but continuous messaging and
education in this
area is essential to a safer future. The
BACCHUS Network is
committed to the success of National Youth
Traffic Safety
Month. As peer educators have served as
change agents on
their campuses and in their communities, it
is our belief that
peer educators ability to raise awareness at
the national level
and within the global community is of vital
importance.
A sign for safety is a sign of your
commitment to the future of
America's youth. Join National Organizations
for Youth Safety
(NOYS), The BACCHUS Network, the United
Nations, and
thousands of committed youth and
professionals across the
nation and in the international community as
they facilitate
education, raise awareness, and bring about
proactive change.
Sign For Safety challenges you to challenge your
government. Log
on to
sign the petition to see May proclaimed
National Youth Traffic
Safety Month by the governor in your state.
Join the global
cause by taking the time to sign the Make
Roads Safe petition
as well. The work you can do to raise
awareness about
youth traffic safety can save lives (yours
and those you love).
Kyle
Ali
BACCHUS Student Trustee Kyle Ali is a junior at the University of
Missouri- Columbia
majoring in Political Science. In April 2007
he will represent
the United States as a Youth Ambassador to
the United Nations
World Youth Assembly for Road Safety in Geneva,
Switzerland.
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Advisors...please remember to forward this to
your peer educators!
Sincerely,
Chance Dorland, Area 10 Student Advisory Committee Member
The BACCHUS Network
email:
area10sac@bacchusnetwork.org
phone:
617.372.1392
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