Partners

As a unit of the University of Virginia’s Office of the Dean of Students, CASE supports the mission of the University by fostering community to promote student learning, growth, and citizenship. CASE supports peer education and provides presentations and consultation in order to increase knowledge of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug issues, and decrease the negative consequences associated with high-risk drinking and illegal drug use among U.Va. students.

Programs include:

Choices Alcohol and Drug Education Programs - These online alcohol and drug education programs hosted by 3rd Millennium Classrooms and coordinated by CASE, focus on prevention and reducing risk for alcohol and drug related health and impairment problems, not just for the college years, but for a lifetime.

First Aid for Intoxicated People - Education on helping out a friend who has had too much to drink.

Self Assessment Tools - AlcoholScreening.org - If you consume alcoholic beverages, it's important to know whether your drinking patterns are safe, risky or harmful. This screening will take only a few minutes, and will generate personalized results. DrugScreening.org - This self-screening tool is designed to help adults assess their own drug use, and find out their likely risk level for experiencing negative consequences.

The most comprehensive study of hazing to date and includes survey responses from more than 11,000 undergraduate students at 53 colleges and universities in different regions of the U.S. and interviews with more than 300 students and staff at 18 of these campuses. The following is a snapshot of the initial findings from this cutting edge study.

• More than half of college students involved in clubs, teams, and organizations experience hazing.
• Hazing occurs across a range of student groups. Students affiliated with varsity athletics and social fraternities and sororities are most likely to experience hazing. Seven out of 10 students report they experienced at least one hazing behavior to join or maintain membership on the team or in a social Greek-letter organization. 
• A leading hazing behavior across nearly all student organizations and teams is participation in drinking games.

Outside The Classroom is a Boston-based company that was founded to address epidemic-level public health issues affecting education, corporate, and government institutions. The company's mission is to deliver tangible results to its customers by providing measurable reductions in the negative consequences associated with these health issues.

The pioneering leader in online alcohol prevention since its inception in 2000, Outside The Classroom has developed a suite of science-based prevention programs and tools that are producing dramatic results on  college and high school campuses nationwide. The company's flagship product, AlcoholEdu®, has set the standard for online alcohol prevention.

The S.A.F.E. (Sexual Assault Forensic Examination) Program at GBMC is coordinated by RN's who are specially trained and certified by the Maryland Board of Nursing. They care for victims of sexual assault and collect forensic evidence for Crime Lab analysis when authorized by Law Enforcement. S.A.F.E. nurses provide these services in the GBMC Emergency Department (ED) once the patient has been evaluated and treated for other injuries.

Knowing that over 50% of sexual assault perpetrators are under the influence of alcohol and over 50% of sexual assault victims are under the influence of alcohol, the S.A.F.E. Program at GBMC is committed to provide community outreach and educational programs to middle and high school students, teaching about dating safely and the dangerous consequences of alcohol misuse.

The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University is the only nation-wide organization that brings together under one roof all the professional disciplines needed to study and combat abuse of all substances – alcohol, nicotine as well as illegal, prescription and performance enhancing drugs – in all sectors of society.

Founded in 1992 by Former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Joseph A. Califano, Jr., the nonprofit organization aims to inform Americans of the economic and social costs of substance abuse and its impact on their lives, as well as, remove the stigma of substance abuse and replace shame and despair with hope.

CASA has assembled an interdisciplinary staff of more than 60 professionals with post-graduate and doctorate degrees, experience and expertise in various fields including substance abuse and addiction, communications, criminology, education, epidemiology, government, law, journalism, psychology, public administration, health and policy, social work, sociology and statistics.