Services

The Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Prevention Programming Office offers a wide variety of services including education, prevention, alcohol and other drug assessment/evaluation, short term intervention, counseling and referrals. This office coordinates with many other campus and community programs to create a healthy environment for students to study, work and play in. We provide programs, activities and support services to encourage individuals and groups to make low risk, responsible choices; ones that will optimize their personal and academic success and enhance their time at UCF.

REAL Student Assistance

Confidential screening and assessment is available for students who are interested in feedback regarding risk and protective factors associated with their self-reported AOD use. Students who have violated campus alcohol and other drug policies and/or have been referred for alcohol and other drug violations with law enforcement are also seen in our office. We strive to help students make the most of their college experience.

Brief Intervention

• Trained graduate students from Psychology and/or Social Work programs provide brief intervention services, under the supervision of a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

• Assessment services provide students with the opportunity to meet with a trained clinical provider in a confidential face-to-face session. During the session, students receive individualized screening and feedback on a variety of substance-related behaviors that are designed to inform the student about personalized risk and protective factors, as well as behaviors that can help maximize their health and safety.

• BASICS (Brief Alcohol Screening for College Students) is an individually-delivered alcohol abuse prevention program for college students that is empirically supported by rigorous research.

• CHOICES is a group-delivered intervention modeled after the Alcohol Skills Training Program (ASTP), a program with evidence of effectiveness with college students.

• e-CHUG (electronic Check-Up to Go) is an electronically-delivered intervention that incorporates Motivational Interviewing and Social Norms feedback theories that is designed to motivate students to reduce their alcohol consumption using personalized information about their own drinking and risk factors.

• e- TOKE (electronic THC Online Knowledge Experience) is an electronically-delivered marijuana-specific brief assessment and feedback tool designed to reduce marijuana use among college students. e-TOKE draws on social norms marketing and motivational interviewing theories to motivate students to reduce their level of marijuana use using personalized information about their own behavior and risk factors.
  

REAL Peer Education

The Peer Education program mission is to provide leadership in developing and implementing educational programs in which University of Central Florida students are supported in making healthy alcohol and other drug lifestyle choices.

• Undergraduate students who complete a 3 hour Peer Education credit course are eligible to be selected as Peer Advocates.
• Peer Advocates train other students to recognize risk and protective factors related to substance use, as well as plan and implement campus-wide health promotion events.
• Programs include:
  • REAL Music- Distribution of BAC (Blood Alcohol Concentration) cards and free music downloads to students who know how to use a BAC card and have it with them when asked by a REAL Music Peer Advocate
  • Party Smart-Host liability seminars
  • Good Sport-Citrus Bowl Tailgating initiative
  • Safer Spring Break
  • On-Campus Alcohol Screening
  • Social Norms Marketing Campaign
  • Late Knights
  • AOD education presentations

   

Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Programming (AOD)
University of Central Florida
Director: Tom Hall
Counseling Center Building
Orlando, FL 32816-3330
Telephone: 407.823.0879 * Fax: 407.823.0493
E-mail: tvhall@mail.ucf.edu