Campus and Communities can Come Together to Ensure
Safer Party Environments
Reducing Harmful Alcohol Use among College Students through Safer Campuses and Communities Interventions

Students at risk for harm due to dangerous drinking
at off-campus parties?
Neighborhood disruptions and strained town gown relationships?
Do you want to make a change?

Campuses and surrounding communities have long grappled with student drinking and related problems. University life affords students many opportunities and choices-both academically and socially. A common feature of student life is off-campus parties. While these parties can be a great opportunity to meet others and to socialize with friends, they can also be occasions of too much drinking, too much rowdiness, neighborhood disruption, and even injury and death. But highly visible cooperative projects, in which colleges and their surrounding communities target off-campus drinking settings, can reduce harmful alcohol use among college students, according to research supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).