MOSAIC - Making Over Substance Abuse Interventions on Campus

MOSAIC presents a unique opportunity for University of Delaware students to contribute to the growing body of research about alcohol use among college-aged persons.

All students are important pieces of the puzzle - FIND OUT about how you can participate!

Find out how MOSAIC fits into the University of Delaware’s comprehensive alcohol and drug education, intervention, counseling, and treatment programs. It helps US to help YOU!

Or how it fits into the National Research puzzle.

Once you better understand how MOSAIC works, use our regularly updated "What Else?" web page to further your knowledge base and to link up with opportunities.

One-stop surfing for Terminology, Links and Resources about screening and brief intervention and other alcohol and drug-related concepts.

Contact Information
Nancy Nutt, Project Director
University of Delaware
Center for Counseling and Student Development
209 Laurel Hall
Newark, DE 19716
(302) 831-1530

On-going support

On-going support can also be provided for students through individual counseling sessions and/or participation in an intervention group,“Taking Control of Substance Use: The Steps to Success.” It involves group discussions about real-world topics.

In the News...

Oct. 16, 2006 - All first-year students at UD are now required to take an online alcohol education program, AlcoholEdu for College. As announced at DelaWorld last summer, students who do not complete the course by Friday, Nov. 17, will not be able to register for spring semester 2007 classes.

The course is aimed at creating a learning experience that motivates behavior change, resets unrealistic expectations about the effects of alcohol, links choices about drinking to academic and personal success, and helps students practice healthier and safer decision-making.
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Washington, DC - Binge drinking among girls is growing at a faster rate than boys, according to a new status report on underage drinking in the United States released today by the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) at Georgetown University...
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Washington, DC - If alcohol companies had done a better job of following their voluntary standards, youth exposure to alcohol ads on the radio in the summer of 2004 would have been substantially reduced, according to data from the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) published today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publication, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
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On-going support

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