New Mexico Tech

Alcohol Safety Awareness Program

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About Us

The New Mexico Tech’s Alcohol Safety and Awareness Program (NMT ASAP) is dedicated to preventing alcohol and opioid abuse in our community through education, especially focused on underage drinking, and using prescription opioids.

Our Vision

We aim to increase protective behaviors and decrease negative consequences associated with alcohol and drug use in our community as well as promote life-long healthy attitudes and behaviors regarding alcohol, illicit drugs and prescription drugs in an effort to make academic retention, success, and graduation the norm.

Our Goals

Our goal is to educate the NMT and Socorro Communities about alcohol and drug issues that affect local communities aa well as our campus by:

Increasing the capacity of the coalition to address the prevention of underage drinking and prescription painkiller misuse among youth and young adults at NMT and the Socorro Community.
Strengthening the coalition structure and membership through outreach programs, activity committees, and orientation packets.
Increasing the readiness of New Mexico Tech and Socorro community members to address the prevention of underage drinking and prescription painkiller misuse among youth and young adults.
Identifying and resolving obstacles of substance abuse prevention and increase support for substance abuse prevention efforts by collaborating with other agencies, leveraging resources, and sharing successful outcomes.

Our Strategies

Our strategies include such effort as: publicizing law enforcement activities and enforcement of laws related to alcohol misuse, creating media that advertises the legal consequences of providing alcohol to a minor (fourth degree felony), increasing awareness of the harm associated with prescription drug misuse, developing and coordinating party patrols, educating on proper storage and disposal of prescription drugs, and strengthening policies on campus related to alcohol tobacco and other drug (ATOD) misuse.

Action Teams

Action Teams do the hands on work required to meet the goals of the grant. They are made up of coalition members who lend their specific skills to the team they feel best suits them.

Party Patrol

The Party Patrol Action Team works to raise the perception of risk when it comes to underage drinking. It is a police entity tasked with breaking up parties and deterring parties in the future. This is accomplished through a police-led party patrol active on likely “party dates” in the community to target and break up large parties. The party patrol action team compiles lists of likely dates and locations where/when parties may occur and advertises police activity to increase awareness.

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Media/Communications

The Media/Communications Action Team uses media resources to accomplish various grant strategies such as: increasing awareness of prescription painkiller harm & potential for addiction, increasing awareness of dangers of sharing prescription painkillers, educating on how to store and dispose of prescription drugs safely, raising awareness of enforcement activities (checkpoints, party patrols, etc), increasing awareness of 4th degree felony and social host ordinances, etc.

They also collaborate with community organizations to promote community forums and data presentations on substance abuse and mental health in Socorro.

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ASAP Core Team

The NMT ASAP Core Team meets monthly to discuss ways to make the ASAP coalition more efficient and organized.

They uncover and address roadblocks to prevention in the community, raise awareness for prevention efforts, and work to make the community more receptive to prevention at large.

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Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug (ATOD) Policy Team

The Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drugs (ATOD) Policy and Compliance Action Team meets to discuss gaps in NMT’s current Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs (ATOD) policy, creates policies that will address those gaps, and holds meetings with key stakeholders (Administration, Campus Police, Student groups, Residential life, etc.) to discuss policy changes on campus

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ASAP Team

NAME	TITLE	PHONE	DEPARTMENT	LOCATION	EMAIL
Theresa Kappel	Grant PI; Disabilities Case Manager; Alcohol Safety Awareness Coordinator	575-835-6209	Office for Disability Services; ASAP	Brown Hall- Lower Level, Suite 20	theresa.kappel@nmt.edu nmt.asap@npe.nmt.edu