Blackman is chief executive officer of the Century Council, an Arlington-based distiller-run group that fights drunken driving and underage drinking. The council recently held a showcase of student anti-binge-drinking campaigns. What initiatives has the Century Council done to curb binge-drinking among college students?
For students, our CD-ROM (now online) called Alcohol 101 and 101Plus was one of the first educational tools to incorporate technology and real-life scenarios; millions of our “Parents, You’re Not Done Yet” brochures have been distributed by colleges to parents … and the Promising Practices initiative led the way in helping identify opportunities for faculty and administrators to focus on the issue of alcohol abuse on campus.
