What kind of plan do you think schools should develop? What specifically do you recommend that they do?

Every campus is different, and faces a unique set of problems and assets to address them. Schools can start by assessing what environmental factors contribute to their problem and by developing a strategic plan to address these factors. This plan should include:

• A comprehensive approach
• Strong presidential leadership
• Campus and community coalitions (broad-based, diverse)
• A focus on five environmental strategies for prevention: promoting alcohol-free options, creating a healthy normative environment, restricting alcohol marketing and promotion, limiting alcohol availability, and developing campus polciies and enforcing laws.

Regional prevention initiatives to address the issue and to stimulate formation of coalitions can also be very effective.