Changing the Culture of Risky Drinking Behavior: Policy Change

Project Overview

7th Funding Cycle Impact Award
     Project Start Date: 7/1/2012
     Project End Date: 6/30/2017

Project Goal Statement: To create a sustainably safe environment for alcohol consumption through changes in local alcohol licensing policies; practices on college campuses, in taverns, and at festivals; and by educating current and future leaders in community collaboration.

Award Amount: $750,000

Community Partners:
Primary Community Partner: Catherine Kolkmeier, La Crosse Medical Health Science Consortium
Additional community partner organization names:

• Cooperative Educational Service Agency (CESA) #4
• Coulee Council on Addictions
• Gundersen Health System
• University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Academic Partners:
Primary Academic Partner: Stephen Hargarten, MD, MPH, Injury Research Center
Additional academic partners: Ann Christiansen, Injury Research Center

Project Progress Summary Reports:
     Project Progress Report Summary 7/1/2012 - 2/28/2013

Affiliated Web Pages:
     CESA #4
     La Crosse County Health Department
     La Crosse Medical Health Science Consortium
     University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Project Dissemination Efforts (as reported by project partners)

• Outreach Materials/Events
  • Developed a fact sheet for the coalition
  • Displayed project materials at a community awareness event
  • Hosted a candidate forum for State Senate and State Assembly races in partnership with two other health coalitions
• Reports
  • Developed a Burden of Risky Drinking report (update to the 2008 report)
• Posters
  • Presented poster on festival assessment project and its relationship to policy change work at the APHA national meeting
• Presentations
  • Hosted press conferences to announce the burden report release and addition of new coalition chair
  • Presented on a CDC-sponsored panel discussion about injury prevention at the APHA national meeting