Staff and Faculty

Helping Students Succeed: Navigating Through Problematic Substance Use

This guide provides online training and resources to help staff and faculty become more familiar with harm reduction and how they can support students and contribute to a healthier, safer campus. Harm reduction is an umbrella term for policies and practices focused on reducing the problematic effects of alcohol and other drug use. Each module takes approximately 15 minutes.

Full day trainings are held at the Ottawa and Pembroke campuses. Continuing Education Credits available.

Understanding Substance Use & Harm Reduction Training

This training would be useful for anyone interested in learning more about how substance use can impact students and how harm reduction can effectively reduce possible risks.

The training will cover:

• The continuum from substance use to substance-use disorders
• Impacts on the brain and neurobiological development
• Biopsychosocial factors
• Risk factors and denial/defence systems
• What harm reduction is and how it can be utilized

Training advertised on My AC, PD, this website. Don’t see any upcoming training? Email umbrellaproject@algonquincollege.com to request an email with the next training date.

Motivational Interviewing Training

This training provides further learning and understanding of substance use and ways to reach different populations.

This training will:

• Provide participants with skills to promote internal motivation to move forward through the stages of change.
• Address ways of coping with clients’ feelings of transference and counter-transference (common in clients with addictions).
• Offer experiential activities, including role play and case studies for working with clients through the stages of change.

Training advertised on My AC, PD, this website.  Don’t see any upcoming training?  Email umbrellaproject@algonquincollege.com to request an email with the next training date.

Interested in having someone from the AC Umbrella Project offer a presentation in your class?

Have questions about how your students can participate in this exciting project?

Please contact the Umbrella Project at umbrellaproject@algonquincollege.com

If you have concerns about a student, employee, or anyone in your life, please contact umbrellaproject@algonquincollege.com, and our team will be happy to consult with you about a student who may or may not be struggling with substance abuse.