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A comprehensive approach works across all aspects of the entire campus-community, and works at every population level:
- individual
- group
- campus
- community
What makes the approach comprehensive is that multiple levels of prevention strategy are applied across the campus-community. These include:
- Alcohol education for the individual students and groups who violate campus/community alcohol policies
- Intervention and treatment for individual students who show signs of pre-dependency
- Group-specific education and intervention for specific high-risk populations
- Campus-wide policies that discourage high-risk drinking for all students
- Campus-wide programs that support low-risk drinking or abstinence for all students
- Community-wide policies that discourage high-risk drinking for all citizens
- Community-wide policies that encourage low-risk drinking or abstinence for all citizens
A study by the Harvard School of Public Health evaluating this approach showed that those campus-communities that applied a comprehensive environmental approach showed greater reductions in student drinking rates and related harms. Other studies about the NU Directions coalition at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln (such as the Newman, et al study), which employed the comprehensive environmental model, also show the model leads to significant change.
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