Anthony Rossi speaks at the National Collegiate EMS Foundation, "Changing culture, changing lives"
The focus of the lecture was the necessity of a program developed for students by students.
Praise from parents and students
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The SEMS Foundation in the media
We have been featured in several news articles. We have been featured on the front page of The Denver Post, Westword, and the Boulder Business Journal.
University endorsements:
“As Chairman of our long-time campus-community coalition addressing substance abuse issues, which is known as the Standing Committee of Substance Abuse (SCOSA), I have seen many well-meaning student initiatives come and go that were intended to reduce the high-risk use of alcohol by students. The short lived nature of these groups can usually be traced to the fact that the initiatives were tied to a few very committed student leaders and not to a larger organization with clear and specifically articulated set of goals and a plan as to how they expect to achieve these goals. SEMS has overcome all of these well known weaknesses. It also now has a track record of translating its goals into 'real world' situations. I believe that if we had more groups of student leaders like those that have been cultivated by SEMS then the administrators at many higher education institutions that are charged with dealing with 'alcohol issues' could possibly relax a little and maybe even be reassigned to other duties.”
-Robert Maust
Chairman
Standing Committee of Substance Abuse
University of Colorado at Boulder
“I am writing to you in 2006. I want to ground my quote in time because I expect that the people associated with the SEMS organization will have done even more and better things since I became aware of their work at CU-Boulder during the academic year 2005-06. However, what they have done for our students and the larger community in this fairly brief period has been impressive. For these reasons I will only try to highlight a few of their accomplishments, such as the fact that they have
- Created a student-based organization with a credentialed advisor that has a clear set of professional goals and standards and assessment methods to assure they are meeting their goals.
- Secured a funding base for their work in very competitive annual campus-wide student referendum whereby students may agree to tax themselves to support a limited number of student groups and initiatives.
- Provided trained and committed student “monitors” that have been invited to several off campus parties where they have potentially helped reduce the risks to individuals and the group where students have gathered and some of them have chosen to consume alcohol.
As a Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs I know how important it is to have “grassroots” student groups take up issues that are important to our students, the entire university and the larger community. SEMS has done this and, as a result, I believe they have made our many different communities safer. For all of these reasons I thank them.”
-Dr. Ron Stump
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
University of Colorado at Boulder
