Our group has identified three major categories of safety and security issues that residents in the halls may encounter. The three major categories are Drug and Alcohol Safety, Protection from Vagrancy and Theft, and Personal Safety.

Drugs and alcohol are two of the most common offenses that the average college student will experience. Education will focus on: the residents learning the residence hall policies on drugs and alcohol, knowing how to respond appropriately when a peer has overdosed on drugs or alcohol, warning of the negative side affects of drugs and alcohol, and guiding to where they can get help if they have a drug or alcohol problem. The likelihood of students experimenting or even consistently using drugs and alcohol is recognized, and because of this, learning and understand the physiological and psychological effects of drugs and alcohol will be used to make informed decisions. This will lead to knowing how to make encounters where residents are using drugs or alcohol less physically damaging. If students are given information about the norms of student drinking they will judge and hopefully moderate their own drinking. Finally, if a basic understanding of all types or drugs and the effects that these drugs can have on their bodies is given, accidents or experimentation can be prevented.