
NASPA Strategies Conferences
In-Person Conferences Health, Safety, and Well-being Alcohol and Other Drug Sexual and Relationship Violence Prevention, Education, and Response Wellness and Health Promotion AVP or "Number Two" Faculty Mid-Level New Professional Senior Level
January 12 - January 15, 2022 Boston, MA
The 2022 NASPA Strategies Conferences provide student affairs practitioners with the knowledge and skills to effectively address collegiate alcohol and drug abuse prevention, mental health, sexual violence prevention and response, and well-being through a variety of comprehensive and integrative approaches.
Your registration allows you to customize your program track even if your interests cover more than one topic – NASPA Strategies converges four conferences in one!
Check back often - as details are finalized our website will be updated on a rolling basis.
Registration will be open soon!
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The convergence of the NASPA Alcohol, Other Drug, and Violence Prevention, Mental Health, Sexual Violence Prevention and Response, and the Well-Being and Health Promotion Leadership conferences allows campus practitioners a unique opportunity to learn, network and engage.
Call for Proposals
The 2022 NASPA Strategies Conferences invite program proposals from higher education professionals who are part of the essential systems addressing college student safety, health, and well-being. These functions are irreplaceable components of an environment conducive to learning and development, and the field of student affairs prevention professionals passionately dedicated to this work need your expertise. We welcome you to submit a program for this dynamic series of conferences and join us in January to optimize your own programs and services in the company of the largest student affairs health and wellness event in the field.
The conference planning committees encourage program proposals regarding proven practices with content that will engage participants in fruitful discussions and provide meaningful content to bring back to their campuses.
Please note: all presenters must register to attend the 2022 NASPA Strategies Conferences.
The Call for Proposals will open in late spring.
Conference Themes & Learning Outcomes
Alcohol and Other Drug and Violence Prevention
Each proposal will select one theme that most aligns with program content.
Campus or Community Coalitions and Partnerships
- Understand the ways in which diverse stakeholders across the campus and the larger community can work collaboratively to address substance misuse or violence prevention and best serve the needs of campus community members
- Analyze models of collaboration, case studies from integrated systems, successful partnerships, and efforts to engage all stakeholders in prevention efforts, including individual and environmental level strategies
- Identify and evaluate health promotion efforts
Current Trends and Emerging Issues
- Analyze ongoing data and research surrounding substance misuse or campus violence prevention efforts, especially those addressing use patterns and implications for college students
- Evaluate the scope of alcohol and other drug misuse on campus as well as its relationship to academic attainment
- Explore considerations for health equity on prevention efforts
- Amplify the voices and experiences around substance misuse and campus violence of underrepresented populations
Evidence-Based and Evidence Informed Practices
- Examine how evidence-based prevention strategies can be modified to fit varying institutions, communities, populations, and resource levels
- Identify sources and repositories for identifying evidence-based programs and strategies
- Explore replicable and adaptable evidence-based policies, programs, and practices
- Identify best practices for campus policies surrounding alcohol and other drugs
Innovative Solutions and Changing Practices
- Evaluate the efficacy and fidelity of prevention strategies led online/virtually
- Identify changes in prevention strategies due to COVID-19 and the long term impact for students and staff
- Articulate how to support students who choose not to use substances and those in recovery communities, using innovative strategies, based on a foundational theory, model, or adaptation
The Strategic Prevention Framework
- Create sustainability into all efforts in the spectrum of prevention and health promotion
- Discuss an understanding of cultural competency and its importance in evidence-based prevention efforts
- Discuss efforts to build capacity to implement prevention strategies on campus
Mental Health
Each proposal will select one theme that most aligns with program content.
Access to Services
- Explore new modalities addressing growing waiting lists and stagnant or reduced provider capacity
- Discuss administrative successes and barriers to expand student access
- Discover and compare solutions to promote increased access and awareness of mental health services for students
Cross- Campus Collaboration and Coordination
- Discuss models of collaboration, case studies from integrated systems, successful partnerships, and work with student affairs leadership
- Understand collaboration with local, state, and national organizations to promote mental health on campus
- Understand the keys to successful cross-campus collaboration in mental health services
- Explore ways in which mental health intersects with both violence prevention and response and substance misuse on campus to develop and enhance prevention, intervention and response
Cultural and Identity Considerations
- Identify barriers to mental well-being for campus sub-populations, the strategies to address social justice and identity-related stress, providing inclusive services, and the recruitment, hiring, and retention of diverse staff who provide mental health services
- Discuss both the strategic and the practical aspects of these considerations on mental health services and the creation of a mentally healthy campus environment
- Discuss mental health needs of students within a context of power and privilege
Current Trends and Emerging Issues
- Discover new or ongoing data and research surrounding college mental health, and what inferences that has for practitioners and administrators in providing services and planning for a mentally healthier campus
- Discuss issues at a clinical/individual level and a campus/environmental level
- Examine current trends and issues to better evaluate the scope of student mental health on campus
Successful and Innovative Solutions
- Describe specifically transitional student populations’ mental health (e.g. first-year students, veteran students, etc.)
- Engage in conversations about innovative and effective programming to support student mental health
- Discuss implemented strategies, programs, and policies which have been successful - or which are innovative, based on a foundational theory, model, or adaptation
Sexual Violence Prevention and Response
Each proposal will select one theme that most aligns with program content.
Evidence-based Policy and Practice
- Identify evidence-based approaches to sexual violence prevention and response
- Demonstrate strategic use of assessment and data to inform and influence policies, programs, systems, infrastructure, and other higher order change that helps build a culture in which sexual violence is eliminated
- Discuss best practices in: implementing sustainable, evidence-based prevention programs; improving campus response to violence and victims; and evaluating the impact of these efforts
- Describe strategies for developing or revising comprehensive campus sexual misconduct policies, including how they are impacted by the latest federal and state legislative policy changes
Innovative or Promising Approaches to Prevention and Response
- Identify strategies, programs, and policies which are innovative and whose grounding in foundational theories, models, or frameworks make them promising in their efficacy
- Describe project implementation and program evaluation associated with these initiatives
- Discuss innovative/promising approaches to the prevention of and response to sexual violence in higher education, including discussions of lessons learned, assessment and evaluation, and replicability
Disruption of Dominant Social Narratives
- Examine and interrupt the problematic dominant narratives of sexual violence (e.g. racism, sexism, heteronormativity, gender identity, ableism), including narratives around those who experience sexual violence; those who perpetrate sexual violence; as well the ways in which those who work to prevent and respond to sexual violence participate in these dominant narratives
- Create and propose new perspectives, approaches, and strategies to honor all identities in sexual violence work
- Examine societal and institutional systems and structures that contribute to, are complicit in, or perpetuate violence, and identify practices that foster inclusive, intersectional efforts to address sexual violence
Developing or Expanding Campus and Community Partnerships
- Discuss the ways in which diverse stakeholders from within and across the campus and the larger community can work collaboratively to address sexual violence and best serve the needs of campus community members
- Describe models of collaboration, case studies from integrated systems, successful partnerships, and efforts to engage all stakeholders in sexual violence prevention and response
- Describe collaboration with local, state, and national organizations to prevent and respond to campus sexual violence
- Identify strategies to expand and strengthen relationships among and between campuses and community service providers, in an effort to augment support for reporting and responding parties and increase communication around and collaboration in prevention and response
Well-being and Health Promotion Leadership
Each proposal will select one theme that most aligns with program content.
Foundations and Essential References in the Field of Health Promotion
- Identify foundational principles for effective health promotion in higher education as a public health setting
- Describe the evolution of health promotion practice in higher education leading to a clear understanding of current industry standards
- Discuss core knowledge and relevant case studies of quality health promotion practice
- Discuss the ways in which power differentials operate, are experienced, and are reinforced in the Health Promotion process at individual, group, community, institutional, and global levels
Research and Data that Informs Our Work
- Discover how data is gathered, contextualized, and utilized by campus community members for health promotion actions
- Describe the complexity of data and its use in building the narrative of well-being on campus
- Compare and contrast key terminology and the impact of the language we use
- Discuss implications for Health Promotion with Historically Underrepresented Populations
- Building Infrastructure and Evolving Systems to Create a Culture of Well-being
Articulate how to develop and maintain meaningful partnerships
- Discover ways to synergize environmental factors using settings approaches
- Describe how to lead coalition building to collectively strive for a flourishing campus community
- Discuss how social, political, and historical movements within Public Health have shaped and created systems of power, privilege, and oppression
- Identify opportunities to impact system change within an institution
Leadership Development for Health & Well-being
- Compare and contrast leadership models and their impact on well-being
- Describe the characteristics of leadership styles that are effective for non-linear, communal outcomes
- Discuss the role of restorative practice in change management
- Discover leadership and supervision skills that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion
Promising Practices, Innovations and Emerging Trends
- Discuss the practices that campuses have utilized, integrating new guidance from the field, to create healthy and well communities
- Identify promising practices that are theoretically grounded
- Discover policy changes that are showing promise in their proposal or implementation stage
- Describe future trends in systemic well-being on University campuses
- Discuss innovative practices that are addressing issues of health equity
Additional Information
Successful Proposals:
Successful proposals should include:
- Lengthy description about session content that you will present.
- Relationship of the program to the conference themes outlined on the website.
- Identification of the program format (e.g., lecture, panel, debate) including methods for participant involvement (e.g., discussion, effective practice sharing, case study analysis).
- Evidence of the conceptual foundation for proposal content including ways the program content is grounded in research, relevant experience, a cogent model, or appropriate theory.
- Integration of equity, inclusion, and social justice for identified subpopulations (students of color, LGBTQIA+ students, international students, students with ability differences, undocumented students, etc.) or at a systems level (e.g. colonization, racial oppression and trauma, restrictive statewide policy for trans students' rights, etc.).
General Proposal Writing Tips:
Looking for tips on writing an effective general NASPA proposal? See sample submissions and formatting tips in our Program Submission Guidelines.
Registration
Registration as a member is based on individual membership status. If you are employed by a college or university that is an institutional member, you can join as an individual member at the $75 rate. This gives you the conference registration and a year of membership for less than the non-member registration fee. If your institution is NOT a member, then you will need to join at the associate affiliate rate of $242 and then you can pay the individual member rate for conference registration. Visit the Membership section of the NASPA website to learn about membership types.
The Strategies Conferences converge four events into one. Please select the conference which is most applicable to you, though you are welcome to attend sessions and presentations selected by any of the conference committees.
REGISTRATION FEES |
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Early Registration 03/01/2021 to 10/27/2021 |
Regular Registration 10/28/2021 to 12/08/2021 |
Late Registration 12/09/2021 to 01/12/2022 |
NASPA Member |
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$450 | $500 | $575 |
Non Member |
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$650 | $700 | $775 |
NASPA Student Member |
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$175 | $225 | $300 |
HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEES |
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Early Registration 03/01/2021 to 10/27/2021 |
Regular Registration 10/28/2021 to 12/08/2021 |
Late Registration 12/09/2021 to 01/12/2022 |
NASPA Member |
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$75 | $95 | $140 |
Non Member |
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$175 | $195 | $240 |
FULL-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEES |
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Early Registration 03/01/2021 to 10/27/2021 |
Regular Registration 10/28/2021 to 12/08/2021 |
Late Registration 12/09/2021 to 01/12/2022 |
NASPA Member |
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$125 | $145 | $190 |
Non Member |
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$225 | $245 | $290 |
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Registration Policies
Refunds will be given for cancellations, received in writing by October 27, 2021, less a $50.00 processing fee. In addition, a processing fee of $50.00 per registration will be charged for credit cards declined.
For a comprehensive listing of NASPA registration policies, please visit this page.
Questions?
NASPA Events Event Registration Support Email: events@naspa.org Phone: (202) 265-7500 |
Allison Tombros Korman Senior Director, Culture of Respect Email: akorman@naspa.org Phone: 202-903-0653 |
Mallory Jordan Director, Health & Well-being Initiatives Email: mjordan@naspa.org Phone: 202-903-0642 |
Schedule
The schedule will be designed to provide participants with interactive and engaging programming, opportunities for deeper discussion, and networking. As details are finalized, this schedule will be updated. Registration to one conference, grants access to content over all four conferences.
Take a look at the 2020 In-Person and 2021 Virtual NASPA Strategies Conferences Program Books to get a feel for the event:
2020 NASPA Strategies Conferences Program Book
2021 NASPA Strategies Conferences Program Book
Tentative 2022 NASPA Strategies Conferences Schedule
All times are Eastern Standard Time and are subject to change
January 12
January 13
January 14
January 15
7:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Registration
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Pre-Conference Institute (Full Day)
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Pre-Conference Session (Half Day)
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Opening Session & Keynote Speaker
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Breakout Sessions
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Breakout Sessions
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Conference Break (Lunch on own)
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Breakout Sessions
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Alcohol, Other Drug, and Violence Prevention Conference Plenary
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Breakout Sessions
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Breakout Sessions
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Opening Reception & Poster Sessions
Please join our poster session presenters for networking and continued learning. Planning Committee members from each conference will also be hosting tables; join them for networking and to learn about future conference planning opportunities. Heavy appetizers will be served.
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Registration
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Breakout Sessions
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Conference Plenary
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Breakout Sessions
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Well-being and Health Promotion Leadership Conference Plenary Speaker
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Breakout Sessions
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Conference Break (Lunch on own)
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Breakout Sessions
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Mental Health Conference Plenary
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Breakout Sessions
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Breakout Sessions
7:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Registration
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Breakout Sessions
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Breakout Sessions
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Closing Session
Venue

Boston Marriott Copley Place
Boston, Massachusetts
All conference activities will take place at the Boston Marriott Copley Place.
NASPA has arranged special room rates for conference attendees at the Boston Copley Marriott Place at $159/night (not including 14.95% state and local taxes). The cut-off date to receive the conference room rate is Monday, December 22, 2021. Rooms in the conference block may sell out prior to the cut-off date, so please make your reservation as soon as possible.
Reserving a room within our block by using the hotel's dedicated meeting website or toll-free telephone number not only benefits you; it also helps to support the conference. When you book within our conference block, you help NASPA keep meeting costs as low as possible and enable us to provide some of the important features meeting attendees have come to enjoy, such as networking receptions, exhibit area coffee breaks, and off-site transportation.
Boston Marriott Reservation Link Coming Soon!
Hotel booking information:
Hotel | Room Rate / Night |
Boston Marriott Copley Place 110 Huntington Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02116 1-877-901-2079 Group Name: *Coming Soon* |
$159 - Single/ Double $179 - Triple |
Continuing Education
CEU FAQ's
The 2022 NASPA Strategies Conferences will offer continuing education credits for NBCC, CHES/MCHES, NASW, and APA. NASPA is an approved continuing education provider for NBCC and NCHEC, and will be submitting for approval from NASW in Fall 2021. NASPA is approved to offer APA credit through a partnership with the Association of University College Counseling Center Directors. NASPA is also able to provide a general certificate of attendance to document hours for other licenses or credentials not listed above.
The total number of hours that will be available for this conference will depend upon the eligibility of individual sessions, as well as the overall conference schedule. In the past, continuing education credits have been available during every breakout session block for the entirety of the conference. The full schedule and continuing education qualifications will be available in January 2022.
For more information about each continuing education credit and offerings, please read through the descriptions below. Credit may be requested by completing the appropriate paperwork for the type of continuing education needed (NBCC, CHES/MCHES, NASW, APA). Forms will be made available only on-site.
National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
NASPA has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5120. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit will be clearly identified. NASPA is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Participants can receive a maximum number of clock hours for this event.
To receive NBCC credit, be sure to complete the assoicated reporting forms. Forms will be available to all attendees on-site. In addition, attendees must complete an online evaluation of individual sessions, which will be emailed to you shortly after the conference. A PDF certificate will be sent via email after the form has been processed and approved.
National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. (NCHEC))
NASPA is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program will designate the opportunity for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) Category 1 continuing education contact hours.
To receive CHES or MCHES credit, complete an evaluation of each individual session that you attend. Forms will be available to all attendees on-site. In addition, attendees must complete an online evaluation of individual sessions, which will be emailed to you shortly after the conference. A PDF certificate will be sent via email after the form has been processed and approved, and individual hours will be reported to NCHEC in April 2022.
National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
NASPA will be submitting for approval from the National Association of Social Workers in Fall 2021.
To receive NASW credit, complete the assoicated reporting form. Forms will be available on-site. In addition, attendees must complete an online evaluation of individual sessions, which will be emailed to you shortly after the conference. A PDF certificate will be sent via email after the form has been processed and approved.
Continuing Education for Psychologists (APA)
NASPA thanks the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors for sponsoring this continuing education opportunity for psychologists. The Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. AUCCCD maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Not all sessions are available for continuing education (CE) credit. Sessions which are eligible for APA credit will be identified within the program book and conference platform.
A maximum number of continuing education hours will be available for this program. To receive APA credit, participants must evaluate sessions using the APA Reporting Packet. The packet will be available on-site. A PDF certificate will be sent via email after the form has been processed and approved.
All APA Reporting Packets must have been submitted in-person to the registration desk before leaving the conference. APA packets will not be accepted electronically.
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Sponsors
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The 2022 NASPA Strategies Conferences are your opportunity to take a cross-functional approach to student success when it has never been more important.
If you would like to exhibit or sponsor the 2022 NASPA Strategies Conferences you can do so by reaching out to Kristie Jacobsen Jerde at kjerde@naspa.org.
Have questions? You can call Kristie Jacobsen Jerde at 218-280-7578.
Engagement Opportunities

The 2022 NASPA Strategies Conferences invite participants, co-sponsors, and constituency groups to request virtual meeting space for the upcoming conference.
If you are interested in convening an established group, looking to meet and connect with others from the same profession, or simply wishing to socialize with those who share common interests, please contact NASPA Staff at strategies@naspa.org.