STEP UP! Blog

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FREE Train the Trainer Webinar Available!

For those of you that may want to facilitate the STEP UP! training with your group in the spring (or anytime!) there is a TRAIN THE TRAINER webinar on the website under Facilitators; Training and Presentations; Train the Trainer. It’s FREE and you can watch it at your convenience. This, along with your step by [...]

Preliminary Evaluation Data is in (and looks good!)

Some preliminary training evaluation results are in and they are very positive – STEP UP! appears to be working!  Attached are some key findings (n= 49 student-athletes). We hope to add to this data soon from other universities that have done the training. For those that are interested, both the pilot study as well as the [...]

STEP UP! Featured in UA Visitor’s Guide

The STEP UP! program got a nice feature article in the Fall Edition of The University of Arizona’s Visitor’s guide. Check it out! STEP UP! was also introduced to all the new Greek members this recently – over 1,400 new students heard the message with plans to follow up at other chapter meetings throughout the [...]

STEP UP! DAY coming this spring!

The University of Arizona will be hosting a campus wide STEP UP! Day this spring! On March 1, 2010, it will be co-sponsored with Athletics by Greek Life, Residence Life, Campus Health and Student Affairs. It will be 2 weeks before Spring break and a chance to reinforce the idea of intervening during this critical [...]

Welcome to the STEP UP! Blog

Welcome to the STEP UP! Blog! Thank you for visiting our site. A little over three years ago a group of caring professionals had a dream: create one program (initially developed for student-athletes) that could systematically address the issues that we see on campuses – alcohol abuse, hazing, sexual assault, eating disorders, depression, and discrimination, [...]