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Twenty-two peer educators and advisors from Area
10 attended General Assembly in Anaheim, CA and it was a
blast! I enjoyed meeting the "Dating Doctor" Dave
Coleman, meeting students from across the entire
country (yes, even my home of Iowa), and the
California sun.
I look forward to this year's General Assembly in Atlanta, Georgia. If your peer education group was unable to to make it across the country last November, this year should be a bit easier on the luggage and your budget. See you there! |
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H.O.P.E. (Healthy Options Peer Educators) of
Emerson College has had a busy year so far. Last
semester, we developed an alcohol awareness
program which we delivered to Freshman students
during their floor meetings. Using some of the
techniques we learned at BACCHUS, we facilitated
discussion and played some games that helped them
reevaluate their own attitudes towards alcohol. We
also hosted our 3rd Annual Holiday Pajamboree, as
part of our "Alcohol Alternative Nights". Encouraged
to attend wearing pajamas, guests at the Pajamboree
decorated cookies, made gingerbread houses,
watching holiday movies, and made arts and crafts. It
was a great way for everyone to de-stress just before
finals.
So far this semester, we have been able to assist in
Emerson's "Free for the Weekend", a weekend where
students pledge to be free of all substances, and
instead get to attend a variety of fun events. We are
also currently working on a "Smoking Blog" project,
where we have invited several students who are
interested in quitting smoking to share their
experiences through an online blog which HOPE has
set up. We are really excited about this new way of
trying to reach the smokers on our campus. Finally,
we have also hosted a few events as part of "National
Condom Awareness Week", including a discussion
on the movie "Kids" and a Safe Sex Olympics. As
you can see, we are constantly drawing on our
experiences from BACCHUS to make our program
stronger!
Meredith McCoy, Healthy Options Peer Educators
President
Send pictures and information about your peer
education group to Area10SAC@Bacchusnetwork.org
to have them featured in the Area 10 Newsletter.
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Hi folks! Lisa Currie here, your Area 10 Consultant. I work at
Wesleyan University in Connecticut as the Director of Health
Education and advise the Peer Health Advocates peer
education group.
The face of the volunteer leadership team for Area 10 has changed a bit in the last semester...read on to meet all our team members: Massachusetts State Coordinator
Ann M. Doyle from Bridgewater State College is our Massachusetts State Coordinator. She serves as Bridgewater's Outreach Education Coordinator for Alcohol and Drug Education, working with the McADOC peer educators. Contact Ann at adoyle@bridgew.edu or 508-531-2274. Ann previously served as the Area 10 Consultant and stepped in to help fill this position on an interim basis in summer 2006. Any Massachusetts-based advisors interested in taking on this role should contact Ann or me directly. Connecticut & Rhode Island State
Coordinator
Joleen Nevers from University of Connecticut coordinates our affilates in Connecticut and Rhode Island. Joleen is the Health Education Coordinator at UConn overseeing their Sexpert peer education group. She can be reached at joleen.nevers@uconn.edu or 860-486-0772. Maine, New Hampshire & Vermont State
Coordinator
We are currently in need of a State Coordinator for the states of Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. If an advisor from one of those states is interested in learning more about this position and its benefits, please contact me directly. Student Advisory Committee Member
Chance Dorland from Emerson College in Boston was voted in as Student Advisory Committee member at General Assembly in November. Originally from Woodward, Iowa, Chance is heavily involved with radio and student health on campus and has recently created an online radio station, The Emerson Talk & Information Network, or ETIN. He is very proud of "Intercoursing", a show airing Sunday through Thursday from 8-9pm on ETIN.emerson.edu, that gives listeners an outlet to ask questions regarding sexual health and other topics. Chance can be reached by emailing Area10SAC@Bacchusnetwork.org or by calling 617.372.1392. If you have interest in a State Coordinator position or have
questions on any Area 10 goings-on, feel free to contact me at
lcurrie@wesleyan.edu or 860.685.2466. Hope to hear from you
soon!
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Tobacco Symposium
Wednesday, March 21 to Friday, March 23, 2007 in Denver, CO. Area 10 Spring Conference Saturday, March 31 & Sunday, April 1, 2007 at the University of Maine (Orono) 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 Regional Certified Peer Educator Training September or October 2007 (Look for more information in the next area newsletter!) General Assembly Thursday, November 7 to Saturday, November 9, 2007 in Atlanta, GA |
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A little boy was having difficulty lifting a
heavy stone. His father came along just then. Noting
the boy’s failure, he asked, "Are you using all your
strength?"
"Yes, I am," the little boy said impatiently. "No, you are not," the father answered. "I am right here just waiting, and you haven’t asked me to help you." (Author Unknown) |
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Advisors are reminded to complete your BACCHUS
charter renewal no later than Wednesday, February
28, 2007. Advisors of record were sent a paper copy
via postal mail recently. Or you may complete it online
in just a few minutes (link below).
This once-a-year process allows chapters to maintain
their affilation with the BACCHUS Network. It also
helps prevent mailings from going astray by keeping
your contact information current with the National
Office. And remember...YOUR AFFILIATION IS FREE!
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If you're on Facebook, be sure to join the BACCHUS
Network global group. Just search for "BACCHUS"
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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Safe Spring Break is a great opportunity for you to get
your peers ready for all the fun of spring break while
encouraging them to make positive choices for their
own health as well as the safety of their friends. It is a
chance for you to do what peer educators and health
and wellness offices do best: being positive and
supportive about healthy decision-making, while at
the same time pointing out some of the real dangers
and risks that need to be addressed.
Watch your mailbox for your Safe Spring Break Campaign kit to
arrive soon! The KNOW Boundaries campaign manual is
packed full of ideas for addressing spring break safety on your
campus, whether your focus is travel safety, impaired driving
prevention, sexual health or another related issue. Check it
out!
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The spring season represents a time of great
scholastic and extracurricular productivity within the
academic community. With one month of winter left
and Area Conferences in the near future, on behalf of
the Student Advisory Committee and all of the
professionals and volunteers of The BACCHUS
network, we would like to extend our best wishes for
a successful second semester.
The Student Advisory Committee convened in Denver
during winter recess. Following a very productive
summit, we are confident that this year will be marked
by great progress.
Each spring our 12 areas host a regional conference.
Area conferences serve as an open forum for the
exchange of a diverse collection of ideas and
perspectives on a wide variety of subjects relevant to
the causes of network-affiliated organizations. The
best and brightest from institutions across your
regions will be in attendance. It is our hope that you
and your fellow peers will be able to participate in
this unique learning experience. If you have an event
on your campus that prevents your attendance at
your own area conference, you might consider
another area conference nearby.
Sexual Responsibility Week 2007 materials are now
available. As has been the case for years, BACCHUS
is a leader in promoting student-friendly sexual
health information, the empowerment of abstinence
as a healthy choice, and the connections between
alcohol abuse and unhealthy sexual decisions. The
purpose of the week is to provide all of our affiliates
with a highly visible spark for what we hope is a year
round commitment to sexual health issues and
programming in your campus community.
Many people like to create their own Sexual
Responsibility Week in February around Valentine’s
Day. Some people like to do their sexual health
awareness on the week before Spring Break. Others
find it difficult to conduct an entire week of sexual
health events, but instead try to do a day or two of
programming. As always, we leave it to our affiliates
to decide what is best for them.
The opportunities to become more involved in The
BACCHUS Network are endless, we hope that you’ll
seek them out and continue to serve as change
agents within your campus community.
Best,
Kyle B. Ali and Sam Filkins
BACCHUS Student Trustees Kyle Ali (pictured right)is a junior at the University of
Missouri-
Columbia majoring in Political Science. A former
SAC member (Area 5), he is also active in the Office
of Leadership Development on his campus.
Sam Filkins (pictured left) is a junior
Communications/Psychology
major at Baldwin Wallace College. A former SAC
member (Area 7), he currently serves as student
body president of his institution.
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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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