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Despite knowing that strategy is more valuable, and a prevention field which has embraced evidence-based and evidence-informed practice, the funding and operation of prevention remains too stilted by the original framing of response that founded early prevention efforts from the 1980s and early 1990s. This is the main cause of why we as a field are so prone to distraction - that?s how we?re built!?
But there?s too much on the line to ?do things like they?ve always been done.? With mental health discussed at all echelons of higher education, prevention needs to be represented since there are shared outcomes when it comes to our communities? ultimate well-being.
"Most of my work in prevention has been about?unlearning. Unlearning the easy solutions, the pull for prevention to be about ?flash? and ?fun,? and unlearning the notion that there is a one-size-fits-all solution."
~David Arnold
David Arnold is winding up his tenure as NASPA's assistant vice president of health, safety, and well-being initiatives, having joined the organization in 2014 after 10 years working in college substance misuse prevention. He has spoken at dozens of conferences regarding peer education, college substance misuse prevention, and health promotion. David has administered two statewide coalitions for chronic disease and substance misuse prevention in Colorado and Montana. He chaired the Coalition of Higher Education Associations for Substance Abuse Prevention and coordinated the NASPA Strategies Conferences focused on substance misuse prevention, sexual violence prevention, mental health, and well-being.?Visit the Campus Drug Prevention website to read David's article, or browse others like it.?
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