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StateWays - July/August 2017

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StateWays | www.stateways.com | July/August 2017 15 FOCUSING ON EDUCATION Along with focusing on informing licensees about new legisla- tion, the Division is also working on other educational initiatives for the upcoming fi scal year. Two grants awarded by the Na- tional Alcohol Beverage Control Division (NABCA) will allow the Division to partner with the University of Wyoming on multiple initiatives focusing on alcohol awareness, training, and responsibility. The fi rst grant is set to provide additional funding to a program originally launched by the Division in Fall 2016 in partnership with the University of Wyoming's Alcohol Well- ness, Alternatives, Research and Education (AWARE) Program. The initiative, known as Step Up!, is a bystander intervention training program designed to give students the knowledge and information needed to identify a potentially dangerous situation and prevent it from becoming worse. "Last year the program was incredibly successful," Montoya says. "The University of Wyoming adapted the Step Up! Pro- gram from another great program that had been implemented at the University of Arizona. A coalition of students, staff, local law enforcement, community members and other organizations all stepped up to train people on campus how to intervene be- fore a tragedy occurs. So far, hundreds of people have been trained, and this new grant will keep the program going for at least the next year." The second grant is also being used to develop a program in conjunction with the University of Wyoming. When the institution's athletics department asked to start selling beer and wine at football and basketball games, the University of Wyoming's Board of Trustees granted its permission. However, like many other organizations across the state, the university has been faced with major budget cuts over the past several years and asked the Division for help in ensuring that all the proper precautions for this new venture were in place. In response, the NABCA grant allowed the Division to purchase 24 scanners, which will be used to identify any fake IDs that individuals may present at games in an attempt to purchase al- cohol illegally. An educational initiative unrelated to the two NABCA grants is Wyoming's Training for Intervention Procedures (TIPS) program, which marks its twentieth anniversary this year. This alcohol server training program is generally offered in the form of a class run by the WSLA in conjunction with the Division. To date, more than 30,000 people throughout the state have received TIPS training--a statistic that becomes even more impressive when recognizing that the state's largest city, Cheyenne, has a population of less than 60,000 people. "We're extremely proud of the quality and longevity of the TIPS program," says Mike Moser, Executive Director of the The division is working on a number of educational initiatives for the upcoming fiscal year.

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