Minnesota Institute of Public Health

Benefits of Positive Response:

• Outside agency conducts an objective assessment.
• Information collected can be used to:

• validate work that has been done
• support internal funding of prevention programs
• apply for various grant opportunities on prevention (e.g. Higher Education Center)
• help save time, money, and resources by helping to specifically target prevention strategies

• The P.R. Assessment can pay for itself by helping to retain one college student.

• The P.R. Assessment shows the local community that the college is concerned about alcohol abuse by its students, and wants to collaborate to address these issues.