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Harm Reduction with College Students: Lessons Learned

Harm Reduction with College Students: Lessons Learned

Recorded On: 03/20/2024

Join us for this webinar that will explore the foundations and nuances of implementing harm reduction approaches on campus from three experts in the field of substance misuse prevention. The webinar will help you to understand the impact of "action stage" messaging and gain insights into practical strategies to minimize risk among students. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your the toolkit for the work you do on campus! 

Featuring

  • Rebecca L. Harrington, MA, Assistant Director of Student Rights and Responsibilities, SUNY-Delhi
  • Jennifer J. Jacobsen, MPH, MA, Executive Director, Laurie Hamre Center for Health & Wellness, Macalester College
  • Jason R. Kilmer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Adjunct Associate Professor, Psychology, University of Washington

 Learning Outcomes

  • Participants will be able to describe what it means to “do” harm reduction approaches on campus.
  • Participants will understand the limitations of “action stage” messages to people not yet thinking about change.
  • Participants will be able to identify at least one harm reduction strategy associated with lower risk by students.

Jason R. Kilmer, Ph.D.

Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; Adjunct Associate Professor, Psychology

University of Washington

Dr. Jason Kilmer is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine and an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at UW. Throughout his career, Jason has worked in both the student affairs world and the research world. In each professional position he has held, he has split his time between research related to reducing harms associated with substance use by college students and directly serving and supporting students and colleagues in divisions of Students Affairs or Student Life.

At UW’s Center for the Study of Health & Risk Behaviors (CSHRB), Jason serves as an investigator on several studies evaluating prevention and intervention efforts for alcohol, cannabis, and other drug use by college students. In addition to research and teaching, Jason has worked extensively with college students and campus professionals around alcohol and other drug prevention programming both at UW and on over 150 campuses nationwide. 

Jason has been project faculty for several international learning collaboratives, including Dartmouth’s National College Health Improvement Program, the NCAA’s (later NASPA’s) 360 Proof program, and, to support campuses in their implementation of the Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS) program, the International Town and Gown Association’s (ITGA’s) partnership with UW’s BASICS Innovations Group. Jason was part of the development team for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s College Alcohol Intervention Matrix (CollegeAIM).

Jason was the 2014 recipient of the National Prevention Network’s Award of Excellence for outstanding contributions to the prevention field and was the 2017 recipient of the Washington State Prevention Professional Award of Excellence. Jason was the 2024 recipient of The Montana Institute’s Science of the Positive National Leadership Award and the 2025 recipient of NASPA’s George D. Kuh Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature and/or Research.

Jen Jacobsen, MA, MPH

Executive Director of Health & Wellness

Macalester College

Jen Jacobsen, MA, MPH serves as the Executive Director of Health & Wellness at Macalester College; previously, she was in the role of Director of Health Promotion and Sexual Respect.  Prior to this, she was the Director of Wellness & Prevention and deputy Title IX coordinator at Grinnell College for over a decade.  Jen has participated in the NCAA Step UP! advisory board (writing the alcohol curriculum), the Division III Alcohol and Other Drug advisory group (including the revision of 360proof), and currently serves on NASPA’s Culture of Respect and the NIAAA College Working Group.  Jen’s primary areas of research and practice include active bystanderism, the role of alcohol in both sex and sexual assault, mental health promotion, the intersection of student affairs and athletics, and leveraging a public health approach to work on college campuses.  She is currently pursuing a DrPH with concentrations in implementation science and adolescent & emerging adult behavioral health.  As a Jeopardy! contestant in 2009, Jen's first correct answer was "drinks like a fish."

Rebecca Harrington, MA

Assistant Director of Student Rights and Responsibilities

SUNY Delhi

Rebecca Harrington, MA is the Assistant Director of Student Rights and Responsibilities at SUNY Delhi where she balances Title IX and prevention efforts for both sexual violence and substance use. She has worked in direct student prevention roles for over two decades. A key developer of the SUNY SPARC program has led to many service hours to the SUNY system’s sexual violence prevention resources which led to receiving the SUNY system Chancellor’s award in 2018 for Professional service to the system. Rebecca has also contributed to online wellbeing educational projects for the American College Health Association and Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative. Her most recent bucket list check off was a Fall 2023 interview for NPR’s morning edition on  the importance of fentanyl test strip education on college campuses.

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Recorded 03/20/2024  |  60 minutes
Recorded 03/20/2024  |  60 minutes
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