ABOUT PAR

The Partnership for Alcohol Responsibility is a campus/community coalition designed to reduce the harmful effects of high-risk alcohol use by changing the drinking culture both on and off campus. PAR is one strategy in FSU’s comprehensive approach to wellness issues, Healthy Campus 2010, which encourages students to maintain healthy lifestyles, and is sponsored by the One Voice Alcohol Initiative.

College alcohol abuse prevention is a complex problem which is best addressed by comprehensive, multiple tiered strategies. We believe that our success lies in the development of partnerships and networks with industry, law enforcement, education, health and wellness organizations, treatment and prevention specialists, as well as political leaders and policy makers.

PAR’s strategic plan can be downloaded here in Adobe PDF format for those interested in learning more in detail how PAR plans to work with others to implement a comprehensive prevention strategy that promotes individual, institutional and community responsibility with the goal to reduce the harmful effects of high risk and underage drinking.

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PAR is one of ten campus-community coalitions participating in “A Matter of Degree”, a national initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, administered by the American Medical Association and evaluated by the Harvard School of Public Health.

1. Why PAR?

Underage and high risk drinking have a profound effect on young people and the community in which they live, including academic problems, homicide, sexual assault, suicide, traffic fatalities and other dangerous behaviors. PAR is a project aimed at reducing high-risk drinking. We believe that students make decisions within a context and that context is their campus and community environment. PAR examines and works to change the environmental and cultural factors that influence students’ high risk drinking choices. To find more information on this environmental management strategy and efforts to reduce high-risk drinking at colleges and universities, we invite you to visit the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention, the A Matter of Degree Program or NIAAA.

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2. Why FSU?

FSU has been on and off the Princeton Review's top ten party schools list for the past seven years. FSU was selected in 1998 to complete a planning grant to look at the factors that contribute to the high rates of binge drinking and the harms it causes to students and in the community. FSU was then funded for five years beginning in 1999 to implement a campus-community coalition using "environmental management" strategies and has been refunded to continue its work through August 31, 2008.

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3. What is Healthy Campus 2010?

Healthy Campus 2010 is a comprehensive set of national health objectives for the decade. It is sponsored by the American College Health Association. Its over-arching goals include increasing the quality and years of healthy life and eliminating health disparities of students today. Visit the Healthy Campus 2010 web site.

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4. Where is PAR located at FSU?

PAR is located in Thagard Student Health Center's Health Promotion department on the 4th floor.

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