Training
The educating and training of students is at the heart of the Make Good Decisions (MGD) campaign. All UWM students who desire it receive training in the areas of safe drinking practices, harm reduction practices, personal safety strategies and community living. Those in various positions of student leadership and peer education take the training principles to hundreds of other students desiring this information. (Below are links to various training components and materials that can be used in student training sessions.) We are indebted to G. Alan Marlatt, Ph.D. and his colleagues at the University of Washington for decades of research on college drinking that led to various parts of the content of the harm reduction strategies.
Upcoming Training Sessions
If you are interested in schedule a training session,
please contact Sarah Belstock at (414)229-4675 or belstock@uwm.edu.
What is Covered in a Training Session?
- Safe drinking practices
- How to compute one’s BAC
- How to identify one’s “optimum BAC”
- Ways to set and stick with one’s limit
- Way to drink safely and have a great time
- How to get the most positives and least negatives from alcohol
- How and why the sexes react differently to alcohol and what this means for a Friday night
- Avoiding alcohol poisoning
- How to avoid becoming a victim and other safety information
Training Materials