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Improving
School- and Community-Based Substance Abuse Prevention
Programs (COM HL
604)
Course
Summary
This is an experimental, interdisciplinary, community
service learning course. As a community service learning
course, the primary goals are: 1) to provide students and
faculty with substantive practical experience in working
within the values, norms, institutional constraints, and
political dynamics of actual community life, in this case,
the Amherst community; 2) to provide a concrete, tangible
contribution to Amherst school and community efforts to
reduce problems associated with substance abuse; and, 3) to
undertake actions that address data gaps, the development of
conceptual models to guide intervention activities, and the
identification of measurable variables to assess progress in
primary prevention.
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