Changing the culture of substance use on campus

Funding body: BC Ministry of Health

Background: Nested within the Healthy Minds | Healthy Campuses provincial community of practice project, Changing the Culture of Substance Use is a project that works with post-secondary institutions to assess and address the factors that promote healthier relationships with substances on campus. The project involves developing campus networks that are curious about the role substances play on campus and how we can shape a positive campus culture with staff and students alike. The project works with key campus stakeholders to develop an array of vibrant resources and tools housed in an online social learning repository for promoting campus-wide wellness using a socio-ecological approach.

Publications

• Harm Reduction: A guide for campus communitites (2021)
• Smoking in the Post-Secondary Context: A Report for The Cultures of Smoking Project (2018)
• Do2GetThru (2017)
• Framework for Thought and Action: Substance Use Policy on Campus (2017)
• Most Significant Change Stories at Selkirk College (2017)
• Most Significant Change Stories for Dinner Basket Conversation Facilitators (2017)
• Balancing Our Thinking around Drinking: Low-Risk Alcohol Use on Campus (2016)
• Clearing the Air: Lower-Risk Cannabis Use on Campus (2016)
• Dinner and Dialogue: Engaging Community in Conversations about Drinking Culture (2015)
• Dinner Basket Conversations (2015)
• Drink with Class Initiative (2015)
• Guide to Promoting Healthier Residence Environments (2015)
• Hosting a Dinner Basket Conversation on Substance Use (2015)

Related projects

• Healthy Minds | Healthy Campuses
• Healthy relationships with food and substances on campus