Sacred Heart receives funds to compat high-risk drinking

Stamfordplus.com (Fairfield, CT) March 1, 2011


"Sacred Heart University is the recipient of a $22,000 grant from the State of Connecticut under the Connecticut Healthy Campus Initiative program. The grant will be used to combat underage drinking. Specifically the grant, which will be administered by Alcohol and Other Drug Coordinator Janice Kessler, will be used to:
* Reenergize and reorganize the Campus Community Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Coalition
* Continue the work of the Social Norms Marketing Campaign
* Administer the Core Survey in 2011 and 2012
* Expand the Peer Educator program
Kessler is extremely excited about this opportunity to continue the work she and the rest of the Counseling Center team have done to combat the misperceptions about student drinking and lower the amount that students drink – especially the instances of high-risk drinking" Read More