pspanThis month’s guest on emPrevention Profiles: Take Five/em is Joan Masters, Senior Coordinator of Partners in Prevention. During the interview, Joan discusses challenges and successes with coordinating efforts across an entire state, advice for campus- and community-based staff on how they can prepare for the unexpected and maintain momentum with their prevention efforts during times of disruption, advice for new professionals on where to start with prevention efforts so it doesn’t feel so overwhelming, and more!/span/p

pspanThis month’s guest on emPrevention Profiles: Take Five/em is Stevan Veldkamp, Ed.D., Executive Director of Penn State’s Timothy J. Piazza Center for Fraternity and Sorority Research. During the interview, Dr./span/p

pspanThis month’s guest on emPrevention Profiles: Take Five/em is Dr. Whitney O’Regan, Director of Prevention and Safety Initiatives on the Health, Safety, and Well-being team at NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. During the interview, Dr. O’Regan discusses how upper-level administrators can provide leadership in preventing drug use and misuse among college students, how a sense of belonging and engagement connects to a campus’ prevention efforts, benefits to entering the DEA’s and SAMHSA’s Red Ribbon Week Campus Video PSA Contest, and more!/span/p

pspanThis month’s guest on emPrevention Profiles: Take Five/em is Dr. Rebecca Caldwell, Director for Residential Well-being at Virginia Tech. During the interview, Dr. Caldwell discusses her role on campus and her vision for the students’ well-being, how to ensure issues such as alcohol and drug misuse do not get lost in conversations about overall wellness and well-being, what was top of mind for her as she transitioned to new campuses in new roles, and more!/span/p

pspanThis month’s guests on emPrevention Profiles: Take Five/em are/spanspanHaley Farrell-Kissun, a senior majoring in media and entertainment at Kennesaw State University; Jose Vallejo, Assistant Director of Collegiate Recovery, Baylor University; and Sydney Holcomb, Content Specialist in the Center for Campus Wellness, University of Utah. These guests represent the three winning campuses of the 2024 Red Ribbon Week Campus Video PSA Contest sponsored by DEA and SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention./span/p

pThis month’s guest on emPrevention Profiles: Take Five/em is Pat Zuber-Wilson, Associate Commissioner, Division of Prevention and Gambling Services at the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports./p

pThis month’s guest on emPrevention Profiles: Take Five/em is Sherrá Watkins, Ph.D., Vice President for Health and Wellness at The University of Utah. During the interview, Dr./p

pThis month’s guest on Prevention Profiles: Take Five is Luoluo Hong, Ph.D., Vice President for Student Engagement and Well-Being at Georgia Institute of Technology. During the interview, Dr. Hong discusses how to help ensure preventing drug use does not get overlooked in conversations about overall health and well-being, ways in which upper-level administrators in student affairs can provide leadership in preventing drug use among college students, how the work of inclusion intersects with well-being in general and specifically in preventing drug use, and more!/p

pThis month’s guest on emPrevention Profiles: Take Five/em is Dessa Bergen-Cico, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Public Health and Coordinator of the Addiction Studies Program, at Syracuse University. During the interview, Dr. Bergen-Cico discusses how prevention in the higher education space has evolved since the early 1990s, how preventing drug use among college students can transcend being seen solely as a student affairs issue to a broader public health issue, some of the challenges faculty members face when it comes to drug use among college students, and more!/p

pspanThis month’s episode of emPrevention Profiles: Take Five/em is an encore episode of Rich Lucey’s interview with Oliver Tacto, Ph.D., Dean of Student Wellness at Maryville University. During the interview, Dr. Tacto discusses the university’s Eight Dimensions of Wellness and how they align with preventing drug use among the university’s students; how to ensure issues such as drug use, prescription drug misuse, and impaired driving do not get lost in overall wellness and well-being efforts; and more!/span/p