Center for the Advancement of Public Health

U.S. Department of Education

• HEALTHY EXPECTATIONS & COMPASS Healthy Expectations initially focused on the implementation of Life Health Planning approach, incorporating seven themes designed to promote healthy living among college students: Optimism, Values, Health Care, Relationship Health, Community Healthy, Nature, and Service. Through the implementation of strategies and resources, including discussion groups, materials, and e-mails, this project was designed for first-year students. With new funding from the U.S. Department of Education, Healthy Expectations promotes life planning and transition strategies, assisting students aspire to the creation and foundations for achievement of their own legacy. In 2005, the conceptualization which Healthy Expectations was based, materialized into COMPASS, a CD-ROM based resource distributed to all Mason freshmen as a tool for making a healthy transition to college. In the following year, Healthy Expectation's COMPASS was recognized as a 'model program' by the U.S. Department of Education. For more information on the U.S. Department of Education visit http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osdfs/index.html. Or, for more information on Healthy Expecations & COMPASS, visit our website:http://www.healthyexpectations.gmu.edu/ Additionally, below you will find a few of the Healthy Expectations materials dissimenated across Mason's campus throughout the year.
• COMPASS Brochure (pdf)
• COMPASS Brochure for Faculty Involvement (pdf)
• COMPASS PowerPoint Show (pps)
• COMPASS (Brief) PowerPoint Show (pps)
• COMPASS Presentation: Helping Students Chart Their Own Course: With a COMPASS (pdf)

Healthy Expectations' COMPASS website

Promising Practices: Campus Alcohol Strategies

This initiative includes a series of resources designed to assist campuses as they plan, prepare, implement and review a comprehensive campus-based effort to reduce alcohol abuse. Through three major publications and numerous articles and affiliated resources, the project provides the foundation for organizing a task force and promoting systematic leadership on campus. Under the leadership of two co-directors and an expert advisory panel, the project is designed to help make campuses healthier, safer communities where living and learning occurs.

• Visit the Promising Practices website
• View the Promising Practices Publications CD
  For more information on obataining a copy of this CD, please e-mail: caph@gmu.edu

• LEGACY OF LIFE: Creating Healthy Futures A legacy of life is designed to assist individuals with their focus and their priorities.   It helps each of us direct energies in a somewhat organized and planned way so that we are remembered, ideally, in ways that we desire.    Legacy of life focuses on our accomplishments and our achievements so they are remembered.   While we cannot fully control our legacy and how we are remembered, we are more likely to achieve the desired results if we seek them, than if we move through life without direction or purpose.   That is, if we want some hope of being remembered in certain ways, then these memories are more likely to occur if we plan for it, than if we just think about it and do nothing.
• View the LEGACY OF LIFE website
• View the LEGACY OF LIFE CD-ROM
• View the LEGACY OF LIFE Presentation (pps)
• View the LEGACY OF LIFE Presentation held at the 2008 American College Personnel Association Annual Convention (pps)

Traffic Safety

CAPH personnel have prepared a wide range of traffic safety initiatives for use by community leaders. These include campaigns, resource materials, background documents and studies, Traffic Safety Communications Kit, speaking guides, and related resources helpful in promoting safer driving, walking, bicycling, and related environments in their communities. These resources are designed to assist local personnel as they communicate with their constituencies about the range of traffic safety issues.

• Visit the Traffic Safety website

Alcohol Summit

Building upon the role held by CAPH as the evaluator for this nationwide initiative implemented by the North American Interfraternity Conference, insights were gathered to encourage other campuses implement similar initiatives to reduce alcohol abuse among fraternity and sorority members.

Virginia Voices and Visions

CAPH faculty and staff prepared a videotape that compiled numerous perspectives of students and staff at multiple campuses throughout Virginia. Used to highlight different visions of the future regarding their campuses, and particularly the role that of alcohol, this videotape served as a foundational resource for discussion and inspiration

Millennial College CD

Prepared to model the use of technological approaches for addressing campus alcohol abuse prevention, the Millennium Campus CD-ROM was prepared by CAPH faculty and staff as the resource, background and documentation for workshops at a statewide conference on college alcohol abuse prevention.

• View the Millennium CD-ROM

NORTH AMERICAN INTERFRATERNITY CONFERENCE

• ALCOHOL SUMMITS. A resource has been developed to help college campuses as they work with fraternities and sororities to reduce their alcohol-related concerns. Since CAPH served as the evaluator for the North American Interfraternity Conference on this initiative, a resource has been compiled that identifies lessons learned from 18 pilot campuses, as well as strategies for implementation. This is a helpful planning resource for campuses as they seek to implement a local resource. See also http://www.nicindy.org/

THE CENTURY COUNCIL

• PROMISING PRACTICES: COLLEGE ALCOHOL STRATEGIES. A range of resources has been prepared for use by campuses to address high risk drinking and alcohol abuse, under the leadership of project co-directors and an advisory panel. The “family of resources” includes a 400-plus page Sourcebook with numerous strategies and efforts that have been implemented successfully on campus; a Task Force Planner that illustrates the comprehensive and long term focus of campus efforts; and an Action Planning resource designed to assist campus leaders plan strategically for implementing and institutionalizing needs-based strategies. Through use of these three resources, campuses can design, implement, and review a comprehensive campus-based effort to reduce high-risk drinking and alcohol abuse. See also http://centurycouncil.org/

VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL

• UNDERAGE DRINKING PREVENTION EFFORT. • CAPH works with state and community leaders to help reduce underage drinking. Complementing the evaluation strategies for locally based programs and enforcement efforts, an overall synthesis of identified efforts—titled the “Menu of Potential Activities and Measures”—was developed to assist local personnel in selecting appropriate strategies for their communities. See also http://www.abc.state.va.us/
• MILLENNIA COLLEGE RESOURSE. Prepared for an annual statewide conference on college alcohol abuse prevention, this CD-ROM resource incorporates the handouts and background materials for each of the conference workshops. CAPH personnel designed and prepared programming for this resource that served as the proceedings for the conference. Rather than distributing written proceedings, this CD-ROM modeled the cutting edge technological approaches espoused during this conference. See also http://www.abc.state.va.us/
• VIRGINIA VOICES AND VISIONS. In conjunction with the Virginia College Alcohol Leadership Council, CAPH compiled videotaped responses of students, faculty, and staff from numerous campuses throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. Organized into a summary 12-minute videotape, responses addressed questions about colleges and the role of alcohol on the campuses. The focus was on creating a positive, healthy future among college students. This resource served as the basis of the closing session for an annual statewide meeting on alcohol and college campuses. See also http://www.abc.state.va.us/

VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES

• TRAFFIC SAFETY. CAPH has prepared a wide variety of resources ready for implementation by local communities. Based on current research and best practices, these resources include traffic safety campaigns, traffic safety communications kit, a teacher’s tool kit, a speaker’s kit on young drivers, individual resource items, and electronic topical newsletters. These can be used in their current form or are suitable for adaptation based on local needs. See also http://www.dmvnow.com/