Examining the Effects of a Comprehensive Community Intervention on Underage Drinking in Seven Kansas Communities

In the United States, underage drinking, or alcohol consumption by individuals younger than 21 years, is the most common type of substance abused by youth. Underage drinking is associated with violent and risky sexual behaviors, and is a major predictor of later alcohol abuse in adulthood. A number of antecedents are associated with underage drinking including social norms, social access, and enforcement of alcohol policies. The Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) is a model developed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to guide communities in addressing substance abuse through effective prevention efforts. While most states in the nation have received funding to implement the framework, there are few published studies that exist examining the effects of SPF implementation on underage drinking outcomes. The two studies presented in the dissertation used a mixed-methods approach to examine the effects of a comprehensive community intervention on underage drinking outcomes in seven Kansas communities implementing the SPF model. The second study further examines the association between the level of intensity, or dose, of the comprehensive community change interventions (i.e., program, policy, practice changes) across the seven communities and improvements in underage drinking outcomes over time. The results show a 34.3% reduction in past 30-day self-reported alcohol consumption among youth between 2006 and 2012. Additionally, a strong and statistically significant correlation existed between the intensity of community change interventions and underage drinking outcomes. The study provides empirical support for the Strategic Prevention Framework as an effective approach for implementing comprehensive interventions to reduce and prevent underage drinking in communities

Principal as caregiver of all: responding to needs of others and self

When the school buildings closed in the spring, educators and families faced unknown challenges of supporting students remotely and continuing to provide the necessary resources for student learning and well-being. Principals responded with advocacy and compassion. This is one of a series of briefs that focused on a ‘critical incident’ surrounding school closure and offers pragmatic suggestions to educational leaders as they continue to grapple with the disruptions of the pandemic

S05RS SGB No. 7 (Election Code)

A BILL TO AMEND SEVERAL PORTIONS OF THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT ELECTION CODE IN AN EFFORT TO CLARIFY VAGUE LANGUAG

S05RS SGB No. 1 (RoO)

A BILL TO AMEND RULE 6.7 OF THE STUDENT SENATE RULES OF ORDER TO PLACE LIMITATIONS ON PUBLIC INPU

Feasibility study of an Integrated Program for Aerospace vehicle Design (IPAD). Volume 4: IPAD system design

The computing system design of IPAD is described and the requirements which form the basis for the system design are discussed. The system is presented in terms of a functional design description and technical design specifications. The functional design specifications give the detailed description of the system design using top-down structured programming methodology. Human behavioral characteristics, which specify the system design at the user interface, security considerations, and standards for system design, implementation, and maintenance are also part of the technical design specifications. Detailed specifications of the two most common computing system types in use by the major aerospace companies which could support the IPAD system design are presented. The report of a study to investigate migration of IPAD software between the two candidate 3rd generation host computing systems and from these systems to a 4th generation system is included

Self Selection Does Not Increase Other-Regarding Preferences among Adult Laboratory Subjects, but Student Subjects May Be More Self-Regarding than Adults

We use a sequential prisoner's dilemma game to measure the other-regarding behavior in samples from three related populations in the upper Midwest of the United States: 100 college students, 94 non-student adults from the community surrounding the college and 1,069 adult trainee truckers in a residential training program. Both of the first two groups were recruited according to procedures commonly used in experimental economics (i.e., via e-mail and bulletin-board advertisements) and therefore subjects self-selected into the experiment. Because the structure of their training program reduced the opportunity cost of participating dramatically, 91% of the solicited trainees participated in the third group, so there was little scope for self-selection in this sample. We find no differences in the elicited other-regarding preferences between the self-selected adults and the adult trainees, suggesting that selection into this type of experiment is unlikely to bias inferences with respect to non-student adult subjects. We also test (and reject) the more specific hypothesis that approval-seeking subjects are the ones most likely to select into experiments. At the same time, we find a large difference between the self-selected students and the self-selected adults from the surrounding community: the students appear considerably less pro-social. Regression results controlling for demographic factors confirm these basic findings.methodology, selection bias, laboratory experiment, field experiment, other-regarding behavior, social preferences, truckload, trucker

Water testing : what to test for (1995)

"WQ100, Reviewed April 30, 1995.""University of Missouri Extension.""Reviewed and adapted for Missouri by Wanda Eubank, Jerry D. Carpenter and Beverly A. Maltsberger, University of Missouri-Columbia, and Nix Anderson, Missouri Department of Health, from Water Testing by Karen Mancl, Water Quality Specialist, The Ohio State University.

Bacteria in drinking water

"New 7/93, Reprinted 4/95/5M.""Water Quality.""Focus area : drinking water.""Published by University Extension. University of Missouri-Columbia.""Reviewed and adapted for Missouri by Wanda Eubank, Jerry Carpenter, Bev Maltsberger, University of Missouri-Columbia, and Nix Anderson, Missouri Department of Health, From Bacteria in Drinking Water by Karen Mancl, Water Quality Specialist, The Ohio State University.

Improving community readiness for change through coalition capacity building: Evidence from a multisite intervention

Often, community coalitions are facilitators of community-level changes when addressing underage drinking. Although studies have shown that enhancing coalition capacity is related to improved internal functioning, the relationship between enhanced capacity and community readiness for change is not well established. The present study used a pretest–posttest design to examine whether enhancing coalition capacity through training and technical assistance was associated with improved community readiness and coalition-facilitated community-level changes. Seven Kansas communities engaged in an intensive capacity building intervention through implementation of the Strategic Prevention Framework. The results indicated strong correlations between increased coalition capacity, changes in community readiness stages, and the number of community changes facilitated. The results suggest that strengthening coalition capacity through training and technical assistance may improve community readiness for change and enable the implementation of community-wide program and environmental changes

Understanding home water treatment systems (1995)

"New 7/93, Reprinted 6/95/5M.""Water Quality.""Focus area : drinking water.""Published by University Extension. University of Missouri-Columbia.""Reviewed and adapted for Missouri by Wanda Eubank, Jerry Carpenter, Bev Maltsberger, University of Missouri-Columbia, and Nix Anderson, Missouri Department of Health. From Buying Home Water Treatment Equipment by Adel L. Pfeil, Department of Consumer Sciences and Retailing, Purdue University.