What have we been learning?

Additional names or info

Changing the Culture of Substance Use on Campus

The CCSU project

CCSU is about learning together

CCSU is about supporting each other

CCSU is about relationships

An HM|HC project funded by BC’s Ministry of Health, 2012ff.

Overall funding to CARBC & CMHA-BC Intended to build local and collective capacity

province-wide to collaboratively address substance use on campus in appropriate ways through sustainable mechanisms

The CCSU project in short

A community of practice with 11 campuses formally involved

Specific funds allocated responsively to campus CoPs after joint consultation and determination of needs and opportunities

For more, check the healthycampuses.ca website

The CCSU project in short

A focus on culture

Culture is transparent to those

within it – it is the software

that drives our social autopilot

systems. Glass

Culture is a fuzzy/complex concept that both shapes us and

is shaped by us connected to history, politics, economics and

social factors. Eckersley

Culture is the context of understanding that we unwittingly carry over unchallenged and that

both enables and impedes our ability to effectively work together. Gadamer

The goal of a cultural approach is

Not primarily about selling individuals on any particular behavioural pattern (social marketing),

Nor primarily about controlling individual behaviour (policy and regulation),

But about building functional community in which all members have a voice and in which all members can pursue happy, healthy lives.

What have our campus colleagues found distinctive, different than expected, when coming into, and while working within the project?

What is CCSU about?

What does a cultural approach to substance use look for, and what sorts of things might it go about doing in addressing substance use on campus?

What does the approach look like?

What have been the greatest challenges and encouragements in being part of CCSU, and in pursuing a CCSU initiative on your

campus?

How has it gone so far?

What questions do you want to ask us, about the project and, about its endeavor?

Summit participants

Questions?

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