Search Among the Stars
November 9 - 12, 2006
Anaheim, California

Award winner list
Thank you to exhibitors
A special thank you to our sponsors
Thank you to speakers

Take advantage of a tremendous selection of learning opportunities during the conference at 70+ educational sessions, 2 keynotes, and 6 featured health issue presentations. If you feel like you need some specialized trainings, you can also take advantage of the pre-conference CPE (Certified Peer Educator) Training, Motivational Interviewing Training, or the free Advisor’s College sessions on Thursday.

There are many great opportunities for professionals and students. At the Assembly, peer educators gain new ideas and strategies for their programming and awareness events. Advisors learn how to make prevention efforts stronger on their campuses while supporting the students who make it happen. Our advisors come from many different areas of the campus but all join together to network and to learn from each other. As a student peer educator, whether your emphasis is alcohol abuse prevention, drug education, sexual responsibility, sexual assault, violence prevention, tobacco prevention, or other health and safety issues, you will find program offerings and other peer education groups similar to yours to gain and share new ideas.

You can bring several students and your advisor to learn and to share successes at your own campus. You can submit a program for presenting a breakout session at the conference. You can apply for national awards for a great program or to recognize the yearround efforts of your affiliate group, advisor, or an outstanding student. You can showcase your campus program in the exhibit area. You can share resources and recipes in the mocktail “BAC-tail” contest. You can learn of speakers and prevention resources in the exhibit area.

We all come from different places and backgrounds, we all have our own campus idiosyncrasies and issues, but what we share is powerful...the passion to create and support healthy decision-making. For more than three decades now we have searched among the stars of our network to find the best and brightest in terms of leadership, education and healthy decision-making. In 1975, we started on one college campus because students, with the support of their advisors, wanted to make a difference in educating on alcohol abuse issues. This important issue still stands at the core of our mission as an organization, and continues to be one of the key topics our peer educators address in their campus communities. We have grown to be the largest student organization focusing on campus health and safety issues.

For those of you who are educators in the student health field, whether as campus professionals or as student leaders, you know that there is not just one way to make our campus environments safe. It takes a combination of policy, educational programs, working on the environment and with the students themselves, trying new things and evaluating what works and what needs improvement. The BACCHUS Network General Assembly offers information and networking on all of this and more.

We want you to know that we keep our costs as low as possible for this annual event. Your registration fee covers the cost of several hotel meals, printed materials, and audiovisual support for the educational program.

For those of you who have attended other national conferences, you will notice how low our registration fees are for a two and a half day conference that includes several meals. We have excellent room rates of $129 plus tax per night for a single/double/triple/quad. We have done everything possible to make this an affordable, quality conference.

This website gives you everything you need to register and arrive on site prepared, so keep it handy. Advisors, it’s important to SHARE THIS COMPLETE INFORMATION WITH YOUR STUDENTS so that they are aware of the experience and can take full advantage of all that is offered. For practical purposes, pay special attention to things like deadlines and process for payment of registration fees and hotel reservations, vegetarian or special meal requests, and other special needs.

Enjoy reading more about the educational offerings, awards, student leadership and special events of the Assembly. It’s impossible to leave without new ideas, new ways of thinking, new information, and new friends. This conference experience is perfect to energize students, motivate advisors, and re-commit to making peer education and student health a campus priority. Please let us know how we might assist you further in making the General Assembly part of your training for the year.

Join us as we Search Among the Stars during our Conference in Anaheim!