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- The best way to cheer yourself up
is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark
Twain
- There is no cosmetic for beauty like
happiness. ~Lady Blessington
- There are
only two ways to live your life. One is as though
nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything
is a miracle. ~Albert
Einstein
Click here
for a good laugh (Ok, so this doesn't really fall into
the category of 'words', but I figure it is worthy
enough to go in this section
=)
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Save the Date!
Advisors!
The 2008
National Conference of Advisors for Peer Education
Groups is coming up, and will be taking place during
June 15-18, 2008
in Denver, Colorado.
Click
here
to register online.
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Hello Area 1!
I hope you are enjoying your semester or
quarter as the year begins to wind down to a close
and as spring is peeking through. Hopefully, you
have been able to take advantage of any
spring-like weather that has come your way. (I
know I have with the weather that Seattle has been
randomly having lately from snow to freezing rain
to sun to wind. Quite the variety!) Don't forget
to take a nice breather as you are studying hard
for midterms or finals and juggling a busy
schedule as a peer health educator.
In this
issue, I want to highlight the article "Signs for
Safety" as we will need as many signatures as we
can throughout the upcoming month. You can read
more about this campaign below.
Remember,
you are encouraged to send me pictures and stories
of what goes on in your campus peer health
education group to be highlighted in the upcoming
Area 1 newsletters. Advisors, also remember to
forward this newlsetter on to your peer health
educating students or anyone who may be interested
in health related issues. Feel free to email me at
area1sac@bacchusgamma.org with any questions,
comments or suggestions.
Happy
reading!
Lisa Vu
Student Advisory Committee, Area
1
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Greetings from
the Area 1 Consultant Mark Shaw - University of
Washington
Hello Northwest peer
educators; 2007-08 has been a good year, and I
wanted to take this chance to share the most
notable achievements with you.
On April
4-5, there was a GREAT Area 1 conference organized
by Jill Royston, Karen Contardo, and the G+ team
at Gonzaga University. The number of
students and advisors attending (80) was the most
in quite some time!
The 4 BACCHUS State
Coordinators (Jamie Patterson, OR; Cheri Marshall,
ID; Cheryl Loudermilk, AK; and Jill Royston, WA)
sought to improve connections with existing
BACCHUS chapters at colleges in their state (as
well as contact schools who don't currently have a
peer education program), and hopefully by next
spring, we'll have some new chapters join us for
the Area 1 conference.
A new development,
just set up this spring, is to have Student State
Representatives chosen, to network with SAC Lisa
Vu on important issues facing peer educators in
the region. Thanks to the following 4 peer
educators for being willing to take part:
AK: Laura Miko (Univ. AK Southeast)
ID: Jenny Odell (Northwest Nazarene)
OR:
Lindsey Stone (Southern OR Univ.)
WA: Megan
Pribble (Gonzaga Univ.)
Before 'signing
off,' let me remind you about the National BACCHUS
conference, called the General Assembly, which
will be held on from November 13-16 in Columbus,
OH.
Hope to see you there!
Mark Shaw
Area 1
Consultant, The BACCHUS Network
Director,
Health Promotion Department
University of
Washington
Telephone: (206) 616-8476
Email: <mshaw@u.washington.edu>
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A Word from the Student
Trustees
By
Tara Daniel and Chance
Dorland
Student
Trustees
Whew! The end of
school is fast approaching, and the time is right
to begin planning for next year's peer education
program. This process can be as exciting and
dynamic as implementing your programs throughout
the school year, and BACCHUS facilitates effective
planning.
To
look ahead, we must look back. What worked on your
campus this year? What didn't
work? Do you have any evaluations of programs you
can review? What can you do differently? Check out
the Starting a Peer Group section under Group
Support on the BACCHUS homepage to review ideas
for all around success, such as keeping peer
educators motivated and gathering a large turnout
at your events.
Secondly, find out
what works at other campuses. BACCHUS publishes
The Peer Educator and the programming
booklets with each campaign mailing to highlight
effective programs, and this very newsletter, the
Facebook group, and the listserv provide forums
for inquiry about what works for others. Connect
with other campuses to ask more, and also check
out the programming resources on the other BACCHUS
websites-FriendsDriveSober.org, TobaccoFreeU.org,
and SmarterSex.org-for ideas on designing and
promoting your topic specific program.
One
of the most challenging yet most rewarding
processes of creating your vision for the fall is
facilitating an effective leadership transition.
In an activity where we consider each of our
students to be leaders, bringing students together
to entrust knowledge to the next generation may
seem superfluous. In fact, this process can only
serve to strengthen your program. Asking students
come to together throughout this month invites
them to not only share knowledge, but indeed
prompts them to reflect upon what they have
learned and conceptualize these lessons in an
applicable way. Not only what we do as peer
educators, but how we do it, is significant, and
the people we become along the way is part of the
benefit.
Gearing up for this
fall includes taking advantage of the BACCHUS
opportunities and recognizing the impact of what
you do on your campus. Use the print and online
sources for guidance, and use your other
affiliates for more ideas.
Contact your SAC or AC with any question
that can help you get more from your BACCHUS
affiliation. Last but not least, secure funding to
attend General Assembly in Columbus Ohio this
November, and we will see you this fall!
Tara Daniel and Chance
Dorland
Student
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The Area 1 Conference Review
Lisa
Vu - Student Advisory
Committee
I must say
that this year's Area 1 conference was a great
success. A wonderful job done by Jill Royston and
the G+ peer health education group for putting
together this conference hosted at Gonzaga
University in Spokane, WA. As the area 1
consultant, Mark, had mentioned we had our biggest
conference turnout yet with about 80 attendees!
There were a variety of interesting
breakout sessions and we had the pleasure of
having having Dr. Leslie Bonci, RD, MPH,
LDN, as the keynot speaker. Dr Bonci is the
director of Sports Medicine Nutrition for the
Department of Orthopedic Surgery and the Center
for Sports Medicine at the University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center. She was an incredibile
speaker and had very fascinating facts about
nutrition to share.
A "congratulations" goes out to this
year's conference award winners. Great
job! Outstanding
Advisors:
Jill
Royston - Gonzaga University Linda Green -
University of Montana Joshua O'Donnell -
Western Washington University Sharon Aliza -
Univeristy of Washington
Outstanding
Peer Health Educators:
Nic
Mather, Andy Logue, and Erin Packard -
Gonzaga University Kathryn McCarron,
Michelle Robertson, Stacy Ordenio and Larkin
O'Dell - Seattle University Nikki
Desgroselier - Western Washington
University Emily Manahan - University of
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Signs for Safety
 More than
300,000 teenagers are injured in car crashes and
more than 3500 are killed each year in the US.
This is an extreme number of tragedies for such a
preventable cause of death and injury.
The BACCHUS Network is a proud affiliate
of the National Organization for Youth Safety
(NOYS) and is commited to promoting the success
and awareness of National Youth Traffic Safety
Month. Traffic fatality and injury is something
that can affect anyone and is a large cause of
death, yet takes place in driving settings we are
all familiar with and can easily bypass routinely.
Want to make a difference? Just go to www.signforsafety.org to learn more
about this campaign, how to raise awareness about
traffic safety in your community and sign
the petition to recognize May as National
Youth Traffic Safety Month by the governer of your
state. This is a great opportunity to promote the
issue of traffic safety on your campus. So sign
that petition if you haven't done so already and
get others to sign, sign, sign as well.
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How the World Thinks About
AIDS
By ALICE
PARK
(CNN)--Twenty five years into the AIDS
epidemic, how much have the public's attitudes
toward the disease and toward HIV-positive
patients changed?
That's the question that
the MAC AIDS Fund, a philanthropic organization
that supports HIV awareness and prevention
programs around the world, was after. So the
organization conducted the first global survey of
people's perceptions of AIDS, polling people in
nine different countries, including the U.S. The
results were unexpected: Nearly half of the survey
respondents thought that AIDS was not fatal. In
India, where rates of HIV are rising, 59% of
respondents believed that HIV is a curable
disease. And 50% of people overall believed that
most patients diagnosed with HIV are currently
receiving treatment, when in fact only one in five
of such patients received antiretroviral therapy
last year.
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Thanks for taking the time to read this issue
of the Area 1 Newsletter. Remember to email me if
you have any questions or concerns. Also, don't
forget the sunblock!
Sincerely,
Lisa
Vu
Student Advisory Committee, Area
1
The BACCHUS
Network
area1sac@bacchusgamma.org
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