This session took place during plenary at the 2016 Healthy Minds | Healthy Campuses Summit in Vancouver, BC. The session explored, "What is culture? How do we raise consciousness of culture? How do we identify cultures around substance use in the campus context? In what ways does culture influence individual attitudes toward and patterns of substance use? How do we shift collective thinking and common practices in regard to substance use? Members of the CCSU community within HM|HC related with project support personnel about the journey of wrestling with such questions, issues that have been present, challenges that have been faced, approaches and processes that have been followed and lessons learned.

1. What have we been learning?
Additional names or info
Changing the Culture of
Substance Use on Campus

2. The CCSU project

3. CCSU is about learning together

4. CCSU is about supporting each
other

5. CCSU is about relationships

6.  An HM|HC project funded by BC’s Ministry of Health,
2012ff.
 Overall funding to CARBC & CMHA-BC
 Intended to build local and collective capacity
province-wide to collaboratively address substance
use on campus in appropriate ways through
sustainable mechanisms
The CCSU project in short

7.  A community of practice with 11 campuses
formally involved
 Specific funds allocated responsively to
campus CoPs after joint consultation and
determination of needs and opportunities
 For more, check the healthycampuses.ca
website
The CCSU project in short

8. A focus on culture

9. The goal of a cultural approach is
 Not primarily about selling individuals on any particular
behavioural pattern (social marketing),
 Nor primarily about controlling individual behaviour
(policy and regulation),
 But about building functional community in which all
members have a voice and in which all members can
pursue happy, healthy lives.

10. What have our campus colleagues
found distinctive, different than
expected,
 when coming into, and
 while working within the project?
What is CCSU about?

11. What does a cultural approach to
substance use look for, and
what sorts of things might it go about
doing in addressing substance use on
campus?
What does the approach look like?

12. What have been the greatest
challenges and encouragements
 in being part of CCSU, and
 in pursuing a CCSU initiative on your
campus?
How has it gone so far?

13. What questions do you want to ask us,
 about the project and,
 about its endeavor?
Summit participants

14. Questions?
healthycampuses.ca
community.healthycampuses.ca