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MIT Alcohol and Other Drug Collaborative

The MIT Alcohol and Other Drug Collaborative is a partnership among MIT students, student leaders, staff, faculty, as well as Cambridge community and city agencies. Its mission is to create a healthy and safe learning environment by promoting responsible and legal behaviors associated alcohol and other drugs (AOD). As an organization, the Collaborative will:

• Discuss and make recommendations on alcohol and other drug related issues
• Encourage and foster the development of a comprehensive, coordinated and sustained approach to AOD abuse prevention
• Create and communicate consistent Institute messages regarding AOD use
• Enhance collaboration within MIT and between MIT and local city and community agencies

The Board of the Collaborative meets each quarter and consists of two committees meeting on a regular basis- Policy Committee and the Education & Programming Committee.

Cambridge Licensee Advisory Board

The Cambridge Licensee Advisory Board has several purposes, which are:

• To reduce underage drinking
• To promote programs designed to educate and support license holders in their efforts to prohibit sales to minors
• To undertake any activities which will promote respect for Massachusetts liquor license laws.

Student Advisory Coalition

The SAC functions to identify student and community concerns, initiate strategies and solutions for change, and make significant contributions to the policies and procedures associated with alcohol and other drug matters.

BACSAC/EngageMen

BACSAC, Boston Area College Sexual Assault Coalition, is a coalition of several Boston area colleges such as MIT, Northeastern and Harvard that have come together with community organizations to help educate and prevent sexual assault and relationship violence on campus. Engage men is a sub committee of BACSAC and is a Boston Area and Massachusetts Statewide Inter-Campus Collaboration for college men working to prevent and end sexual assault.

MIT was delighted to host the second annual Awareness into Action conference this year on October 28th. This conference brought together men from MIT, Tufts, Harvard as well as other students representatives from Framingham State and Babson College to learn about how they can help lend a voice on their respective campus to the cause of preventing sexual violence on their campus.

The Cambridge Prevention Coalition is an innovative community-based coalition linking substance abuse prevention to a range of health promotion initiatives. MIT is proud to be a part of this coalition and be active and positive Cambridge Community members. The CPC has been exceptional in their support of MIT as well co coordinating the server training that is presented to fraternity men, and residence halls.

Governor's Highway Safety Grant

Cambridge Collaborative
City of Cambridge, Harvard and MIT Alcohol Prevention Grant

The Massachusetts Governor's Highway Safety Bureau (GHSB) has awarded the Cambridge Collaborative, a coalition between the City of Cambridge License Commission, Cambridge Prevention Coalition, Harvard College and MIT, as one of seven University-Community partnerships in the state of Massachusetts to receive the College Alcohol Prevention Planning and Implementation Grant.

Mission Statement

The Cambridge Collaborative project is a student focused campus community coalition seeking to identify community issues and employ environmental science-based strategies to address common concern associated with underage and dangerous drinking.

Over recent years, Harvard University and MIT have developed systems and programs designed to address alcohol issues on campus and provide the best support possible to their students. This funding will allow for the development and implementation of community level strategies to effectively address alcohol issues on and off campus.

The Cambridge Collaborative membership consists of representatives from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Cambridge Prevention Coalition, the City of Cambridge License Commission, law enforcement, health services, local alcohol licensees, and students. During Phase I of this project, the Cambridge Collaborative has begun to establish dialogue and cooperation by bringing together stakeholders for assessment, strategy development and mobilization on critical issues.

The Collaborative project, as part of the Campus Alcohol Advisory Board coalition, will seek to identify community issues and employ science based strategies to address common concern associated with respect to underage and dangerous drinking, including strategies to limit access to alcohol, and the communication of community norms (PIRE, 1999).

The implementation and evaluation of the Cambridge Collaborative’s efforts over the one-year term of this grant will be assessed during Phase II of this project.

For more information on the Cambridge Collaborative project, please contact Ryan Travia or Danny Trujillo at 617-253-3277. For more information regarding this and other programs funded by the Governor’s Highway Safety Bureau, contact Rebecca Donatelli at 617-725-3306.

Cambridge Collaborative Meeting 10/10/06-Talya Brettler, Harvard College '08; Kay Negishi, Harvard College '07; Amy Tao, Harvard College; Amy Vest, Harvard College; Katie Pilbeam, Harvard College; Jamie Karcesky, MIT ’07; Shannon Nees, MIT ’07; Isaac Tetzloff, MIT ’07; Elizabeth Lint, Executive Director, Cambridge License Commission; Bonnie Watson, Massachusetts MADD; Ryan Travia, Director, office of Alcohol & Other Drug Services, Harvard; Danny Trujillo, Office of Community Development & Substance Abuse programs, MIT
Members not pictured- Kimmel Yeager, Office of Community Development & Substance Abuse programs, MIT; Richard Scali, Chairperson, Cambridge License Commission; Frank Connelly, Assistant Director, Cambridge Prevention Coalition.

"This award is providing the opportunity for students from Harvard and MIT to work with the city to address our shared concerns regarding dangerous drinking. We are not reacting to an alcohol incident, but are being proactive in our efforts to prevent the negative outcomes associated with alcohol misuse," stated Richard Scali, Chairman, Cambridge License Commission.

The Cambridge Collaborative membership consists of representatives from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Cambridge Prevention Coalition, the City of Cambridge License Commission, law enforcement, health services, local alcohol licensees, and students. During Phase I of this project, the Cambridge Collaborative has begun to establish dialogue and cooperation by bringing together stakeholders for assessment, strategy development and mobilization on critical issues.

"This grant gives us a great opportunity to be creative with our methods of reaching out to students to encourage ways to be social that aren't centered around alcohol," Harvard Student and Collaborative member, Talya Brettler, '08.

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