Community Advisory Committee

• Ottawa Public Health
• Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse See Appendix 14.0

We had regular meetings every three or four months to discuss the work done at the College and the community level.

The AC Umbrella Project joined the Canadian Collaborative on High Risk Drinking (now The Postsecondary Education Partnership – Alcohol Harms)

The Postsecondary Education Partnership – Alcohol Harms (PEP–AH) is a partnership with universities and colleges across Canada and the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA). This group is collaborating to build an evidence-based framework for action to reduce harms related to alcohol consumption on campus. Member postsecondary institutions support campus team (made up of students, staff and faculty) that aim to implement the PEP–AH framework.

PEP–AH members share strategies, producing a collection of best practices for reducing alcohol harms on Canadian university and college campuses, and will pull together research to help member institutions better understand the underlying issues. PEP–AH works against an alarming backdrop. A survey of 43,780 students from 41 Canadian campuses, conducted by the Canadian Consortium of the American College Health Association — National College Health Assessment in 2016, identified many of the challenges faced by institutions: binge drinking with its associated harms is becoming more prevalent (Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, 2017). See Appendix 15.0