Who We AreStrategic Applications International(SAI) and its affiliate organizationADAPTE International have beenworking with the U.S. Departmentof Health and Human Services andthe U.S. Department of Justice onalcohol and drug policy for nearly 20years. James E. Copple, SAI Partnerand Founder is the former Presidentof Community Anti-Drug Coalitionsof America funded by the RobertWood Johnson Foundation andhelped coordinate the Enforcing Un-derage Drinking Laws Initiative forthe Pacific Institute for Research andEvaluation. The SAI team bringsdecades of experience on communityand university responses to drugand alcohol abuse. SAI has facilitated32 Governor Summits on SubstanceAbuse over the last seven years.

What We Will ProvideUniversities and their students par-ticipating in these workshops willleave with information and tools toassess their relationship to alcohol. We will provide evidence based strate-

gies for assessing the role of the alco-hol industry in marketing to under-age drinkers and to communitiesdisproportionately affected bypoverty. We will provide informationabout prevention, treatment and howbest to understand addiction. Univer-sities will have tools to assess theirown capacity to enforce underagedrinking laws and to provide supportand guidance for students needingor seeking treatment. The Disciple-ship Workshops focus on our rela-tionship to alcohol and what is theappropriate faith response.

Our Mission StatementOur mission is to provide evidencebased strategies in prevention, treat-ment, enforcement and continuingcare to support community effortsto respond to substance abuse.

Contact Us At:www.sai-dc.comjcopple@sai-dc.com1 (202) 457-7771

About SAI International

Strategic Applications International • www.sai-dc.com • 1 (202) 457-7771

Mission

1 Provide students withinformation and dataon the history ofalcohol policy and usein the United States.

2 Provide students withinformation and dataon alcoholconsumption andthe social, physical,and spiritualconsequences ofalcohol policy andconsumption.

3 Help studentsunderstand theirrelationship toalcohol in the broaderculture

4 Provide a forum todiscuss the role ofthe alcohol industryin marketing,production, andpromotion of alcoholconsumption

5 Discuss the justiceissues associated withalcohol consumption.

6 Provide a forumto determine whatour futurerelationship shouldbe with alcohol.

7 To examine campuspolicies andprocedures forpreventing underagedrinking and forprovidingcompassionateresponses toalcohol addiction.

Objectives

The DiscipleshipWorkshops onAlcohol willprovide studentsa path forresponsibledecision makingon the use andconsumptionof alcohol.

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Alcohol Plays a Role on Every Campus

DiscipleshipWorkshops on AlcoholFor Christian Colleges & Universities

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Alcohol Use and AbuseEach of us has had some

experience with the devastatingeffects of alcohol and substanceabuse, effecting afamily member orloved one, forcedto deal with signif-icant challengesand destructionthat alcohol abuseis associated. Participants willlearn the effects of alcohol onthe individual, family unit, andcommunity, while also learningto recognize the signs andsymptoms of alcohol abuse.

Campus Community Strategies

Christian campus communitiesare increasingly exposed toalcohol related problems,requiring a more coordinatedresponse to reduce risksassociated with underage orhigh risk drinking. Partici-pants will learn specific com-munity mobilization techniques,environmental strategies and

other prevention initiativesthat will address the legal,social, community, andorganizational environments.

Administering Redemptive Policies

What is the responsibility of thecollege community toward stu-dents who struggle with alcoholdependency and abuse? What isthe purpose of ethos statementsand zero-tolerance policies, andhow appropriate and effectiveare they, especially when admit-ting students who alreadystruggle with alcohol? This ses-sion takes Christian college ad-ministrators through these andother important questions thatneed to be asked if we are to ex-ercise genuine hospitality to-ward students and create policythat is truly redemptive.

Discipleship Workshops on Alcohol

PlenaryThis session will introduce

the conference and the themesof the various workshops.

What Being Human Means for Discipleship

and AddictionBeing human, made in theimage of God, means beingcreated for healthy relation-ships with God and with otherpersons. As human disciplesof Jesus, we have freedom toparticipate in God’s mission inexciting, even radical ways; butchallenges, such as addiction,hinder our freedom by threaten-ing our wholeness as humanbeings and communities.Facing such challenges is partof recovering our humanityand allowing it to flourish.

A Question of Justice: The Alcohol Industry

and the Human PersonCorporations are very specifictypes of entities with a peculiarview of the human person, oftenreducing the person to a mereconsumer, and binding con-sumers to corporate efforts toproduce a successful marketbrand. All the while, corpora-tions attempt to place the costsof doing business upon others,which in the case of alcohol

means enabling dependency,abuse of human relationships,and stratification in society. Thechurch has historically soughtto care for human relationships,the poor, and the local commu-nity, so our mission as disciplesmust include engaging theseefforts to reduce our humanity.

Advertising and the Student

Corporate marketing strategiesshamelessly target youth andcollege students for the purposeof creating replacementdrinkers. Advertising is a pow-erful tool that impacts how indi-viduals, people groups, and evencommunities make decisions,while influencing societal per-ceptions and behavior towardalcohol. Participants will learnand recognize the latest alcoholadvertising strategies, increas-ing knowledge and awareness,to make informed and healthydecisions for their life.

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60% of university students thatdrink, binge drink. How is yourUniversity addressing this?

Workshopsrange from30-45minutesand can bepresentedin campuschapels orin smallerseminar orworkshopapplications

Source: NIAAA

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