{"id":94,"date":"2019-08-30T19:39:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T19:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/student-life\/?page_id=94"},"modified":"2025-06-13T18:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T18:09:06","slug":"education-outreach-programs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/student-life\/alcohol-drug-education\/education-outreach-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Education &amp; Outreach Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>PRIME For Life<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.primeforlife.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PRIME For Life<\/a> is a program designed to gently but powerfully challenge common beliefs and attitudes that directly contribute to high-risk alcohol and drug use. The content, process and sequence of PRIME For Life are carefully developed to achieve both prevention and intervention goals. The program goals are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to reduce problems caused by high-risk drinking or drug use;<\/li>\n<li>to reduce the risk for long-term health problems and short-term impairment problems;<\/li>\n<li>to help people successfully protect the things they value.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Using persuasion-based teaching, instructors use a variety of teaching approaches, including interactive presentation and small group discussion. Participants use workbooks throughout the course to complete a number of individual and group activities. Material is presented using a DVD platform with animation, full-motion video clips, and audio clips to enhance the presentation. Furman&#8217;s judicial officers may sanction students found responsible for violating Furman&#8217;s alcohol and\/or drug policies to attend this six-hour workshop. This workshop is also excellent as a preventive educational tool for student organizations (athletes, fraternities, sororities, etc.).<\/p>\n<h2>Risk Management<\/h2>\n<p>The Risk Management program is a specialized program dedicated to the prevention, remediation and treatment of problems associated with the illegal or harmful use of alcohol and\/or other drugs. The program validates the student\u2019s right to choose and gain maturity while facing the positive or negative consequences of their choices. The goals are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand the effect of Alcohol &amp; Drugs.<\/li>\n<li>Discuss Furman\u2019s Alcohol &amp; Drug Policy.<\/li>\n<li>Understand SC Alcohol &amp; Drug laws.<\/li>\n<li>Learn how to manage confrontational situations.<\/li>\n<li>General Risk Management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Student Organization Risk Management<\/h2>\n<p>Furman requires all student organizations that host events with alcohol adhere to university risk management policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRIME For Life PRIME For Life is a program designed to gently but powerfully challenge common beliefs and attitudes that directly contribute to high-risk alcohol and drug use. The content, process and sequence of PRIME For Life are carefully developed to achieve both prevention and intervention goals. The program goals are: to reduce problems caused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":95,"parent":48,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-94","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions\/658"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}