How can the City’s Public Health Services encourage healthier relationships with alcohol and cannabis among Hamilton post-secondary students??
Project Description: The City’s Public Health Services Division is interested in developing innovative health promotion programing to increase knowledge, change attitudes and beliefs, and promote healthier relationships with alcohol and cannabis among post-secondary students. This project will engage with post-secondary students since they are familiar with the matters that affect their lifestyles, what factors resonates with youth, and what should be considered towards potential solutions.
Through this project, students will review the literature on effective and innovative strategies that may encourage post-secondary students to develop healthier relationships with alcohol and cannabis, gather data from their fellow students to learn more about the local context and needs, and develop content which will help inform a communications strategy. Hamilton Public Health’s goal for the project results is to develop better alcohol- and cannabis-focused programming in the future that meet the needs of the City’s post-secondary communities.
City Staff: Malcolm Scott, Healthy and Safe Communities Department
Deliverables: Primary research, Secondary research,, workshop/event
Project Start Date/ Availability: Fall 2025
Location: City Wide
City Strategy Priority: Healthy and Safe Communities