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Current Program & Policy Successes

• Lehigh is in the last year of its AMOD grant renewal and will focus on new initiatives promoting healthy lifestyles during these final 12 months. One such initiative is the implementation of AlcoholEdu, an online alcohol prevention program used by colleges nationwide. Lehigh’s class of 2008 was expected to take AlcoholEdu before arriving on campus and to date, 97% of the class have completed the course. We are very encouraged by the results and hope to establish permanent funds to continue the program.
• The Community Task Force, a campus-community coalition made up of students, staff and community members, canvassed the surrounding South Side neighborhoods with informational flyers on how to have a safe party. More than 200 houses received this helpful information that covered information on safe party tips, possible penalties and other pertinent information.
• The Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) recently released a study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine that finds that Lehigh’s A Matter of Degree program, along with four other AMOD schools testing the efficacy of an environmental change approach to reduce college high risk drinking and related harms, showed significant decreases in the harmful secondhand effects of high risk drinking.
• The Community Task Force also worked with the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Northampton County Drug and Alcohol Program to create and distribute more than 10,000 bags to local South Side business owners to distribute during the South Side’s monthly First Friday event. The bags had important changes to the Driving Under the Influence (DUI) laws in Pennsylvania, including lowering the Blood Alcohol Content and stiffer penalties.

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