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Governor's Office Awards Grant to Oglethorpe University

The school will receive $5,000 for peer education to help combat alcohol abuse.

 

For the fourth consecutive year, the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) awarded a $5,000 grant to continue its participation in the Georgia Young Adult Program, a statewide initiative to combat alcohol abuse.

Designed for colleges and universities in the state, the Georgia Young Adult Program focuses on peer education in order to promote and bring awareness to highway safety issues including alcohol education, alcohol abuse prevention, impaired driving, underage drinking, safety belts, speeding, risk reductions and other destructive decisions. The long-term goal of the program is to create safer and healthier campus environments.

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The grant runs through Sept. 30, 2012. Oglethorpe University will use this Peer Education grant to continue to educate its students about the detriments of drinking and driving and other alcohol misuse.

The grant will fund peer education training, safe spring break campaign activities, the administration the Core Alcohol and Drug Survey and the purchase of an interactive web survey, Alcohol e-CHECKUP TO GO, which allows students to enter information about their drinking patterns and receive feedback about their alcohol use. In addition, the Oglethorpe University BACCHUS Network chapter will send select members to a statewide leadership-training program hosted by the GOHS during the first week in February.

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For more information on the Georgia Young Adult Program, visit the Georgia Office of Highway Safety website http://www.gohs.state.ga.us/.

This article was contributed by Oglethorpe Univesity Department of Media Relations.


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