Healthy Campus

In Fall quarter 2018, The Well’s Golden ARCHES student peer health education group, in collaboration with Healthy Campus, launched a campus-wide sobriety campaign. This campaign was created to shift the narrative of alcohol and drug use as part of campus culture to building a campus community with sober activities. It pulls from several philosophies, including the importance of building a community on campus, supporting students in sobriety or recovery, and clarifying social norms on alcohol and substance use.

Posters and electronic materials were created that highlight movie nights, outdoor adventures and getting involved in community service and other sober pastimes, as well as providing social norming data on AOD use, sobriety and recovery from AOD problems.

IASPB and other campus partners, in collaboration with Healthy Campus, launched the first-ever, mandatory, online alcohol education module for students who attended UCR’s Spring Splash concert. The team developed evidence-informed content for the module based on UC San Diego’s similar program and partnered with San Diego State University’s e-Checkup To-go Team to create the module. Over 10,000 students completed the module and nearly 2,000 students completed a post-survey to provide data on student behavior and attitudes.

This module is part of a campus-wide effort to reduce the number of students who are taken to medical facilities or in custody of UCPD during these concerts and to create a culture of sobriety and safe drinking. Concerts put on by ASPB are part of a tradition and culture of UCR. We are hoping to use events that are already part of the culture of UCR to create a culture of sobriety and safe drinking.

R'Collegiate Recovery

UCR Collegiate Recovery provides a community for students in recovery from alcohol and drug use problems and other addictions through fellowship, community, and a safe space.  

Zoom Recovery Meetings

A confidential space to seek recovery or harm reduction from alcohol, marijuana, and other addictive substances and activities. Allies and those who are affected by loved ones with addictions are welcome! We're students working through varies stages of our lives, with a common goal to make positive changes.

• Mondays at 3:00 p.m.
• Tuesdays at 2:00 p.m.

Voicing Collegiate Recovery

This project was funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. The Principal Investigator is Ann Cheney, PhD, Department of Social Medicine, Population, and Public Health and the Center for Healthy Communities, School of Medicine, University of CA at Riverside, ann.cheney@medsch.ucr.edu. The project is a pre-research engagement project.

Pre-research means it aims to gather necessary information in order to propose and conduct research. Engagement means it aims to gather input from students in recovery, other university community members, community practitioners who serve people in recovery, and scholars who study addiction and recovery. The project aims to identify research needs and methods in the area of collegiate recovery with the ultimate goal of proposing research on how best to serve students in recovery in the UC system.

Behind the Lens: Voicing collegiate Recovery

The Health Promotion Kit for Events with Alcohol is for organizers of events at UCR that involve alcohol. It provides practical tips and information about existing resources for promoting a culture of health at events with alcohol.