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Students participating in DAPA Training receive 18-20 hours of training,
typically broken down into 2 hour, weekly sessions spanning eight weeks of the
ten-week term. DAPA Training is usually offered during the Fall and Spring
terms. The focus of training is to educate students about drug and alcohol use
on a broad scale (e.g. social, physiological, etiological, familial, and legal
aspects), as well as peer-specific components of use, such as listening and
advising skills, so that students will be adequately prepared to serve as a
resource and referral-point for their peers. Through a series of connections
with campus administrators and student leaders, specific information about
alcohol and other drugs at Dartmouth is covered, in addition to exploring the
interaction between symbol and substance.
Once the training requirements have been met, students receive a certificate
and may offer themselves as a resource to their peers by posting a biography
with contact information on the DAPA Blitz Bulletin, and by facilitating
outreach and educational programming to the larger Dartmouth Community.
DAPA Frank Fucile '05 provides information about other drugs at Dartmouth
and beyond in this useful Web site:
For more information, contact DAPA@dartmouth.edu.
If you are interested in applying for DAPA training, fill-out and submit the
application form.
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