Aug 4, 2026 01:00 PM
Charge for Change: From Insight to Action
Below are webinars to assist in your NHPW educational efforts. (We are continuing to add to the available webinars.)
Tuesday, September 1 Noon ET
The Lonely Dog: The Impact of Hazing on Mental Health
Presenters: Jill Maurer, Assistant Director of the University of Virginia Gordie Center and Kathleen Russell, mother of Alasdair Russell
This interactive program explores the impact of hazing on student mental health. We will view The Lonely Dog, a free, 15-minute hazing prevention film inspired by the experience of Alasdair Russell, who died by suicide after his first semester in college. Following the film, we will hear from Kathleen Russell, the film’s producer and Alasdair’s mother. We will discuss the hidden harm (mental health) impacts of hazing and how you can incorporate the film into your prevention and education efforts.
Participants will be able to:
- identify how hazing impacts mental health
- explain the concept of the “Hidden Harms of Hazing”
- incorporate hazing education into mental health promotion efforts
Wednesday, September 9 at 1:00 PM ET
It’s not just your undergrads: D9 Hazing Prevention for Alumni Chapters
Presented by Rasheed Ali Cromwell, Esq., The Harbor Institute
Many hazing prevention efforts focus on undergraduate members and chapters. Black Greek Letter Organizations (also known as the Divine Nine (D9)) operationally function with significant alumni influence and presence. Learn how to reframe and refine hazing prevention strategies to increase safety and awareness in your grad chapter, community, and local area. This interactive and engaging educational experience is open to all, and especially useful for D9 graduate chapter, state/area/regional director leadership.
Tuesday, September 15 at 3:00 PM ET
Okay…if we stop hazing, what do we replace it with?
Presented by Dr. Michael Ayalon, Greek University
The goal isn’t to eliminate challenge. It’s to eliminate unnecessary harm. Sometimes chapters don’t know another way to create commitment, unity, accountability, resilience, and lifelong friendships.
Unfortunately, hazing often produces fear instead of trust, secrecy instead of leadership, and trauma instead of belonging.
This program helps chapters completely rethink what a great new member experience should accomplish. Rather than simply eliminating hazing, participants learn how to intentionally design rites of passage, traditions, challenges, leadership opportunities, service projects, and shared experiences that create stronger brotherhood or sisterhood than hazing ever could.
Students will leave with a practical framework for rebuilding their chapter culture and creating a membership experience that future generations will actually be proud to inherit.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will:
• Discover what members are actually trying to accomplish through hazing.
• Separate healthy challenge from harmful hazing.
• Learn the five psychological needs every new member program should satisfy.
• Evaluate which traditions build culture and which quietly destroy it.
• Develop meaningful alternatives that strengthen commitment and belonging.
• Create a roadmap for rebuilding their chapter’s new member experience.
Thursday, September 24 at 2:00 PM ET
National Gordie Day :: Liquid Courage: The Role of Alcohol in Hazing
Presenters: Susie Bruce, Director and Kristen Morris, Robert Tipton Jr. Hazing Prevention Coordinator, University of Virginia Gordie Center
National Gordie Day is held on the Thursday of National Hazing Prevention Week to remember Gordie Bailey ‘s death from alcohol overdose due to hazing and prevent future tragedies. This interactive program educates students on the relationship between alcohol and hazing, demonstrates how to measure a standard drink in our “bartender school,” and teaches students to identify the signs of alcohol overdose using “PUBS.” Students will leave the program motivated to be engaged bystanders by monitoring impaired peers for signs of overdose, never leaving anyone alone to sleep it off, and intervening when they are concerned about hazing. Administrators will learn new tools for student engagement in hazing and alcohol overdose prevention.
Participants will be able to:
• Identify the 4 PUBS signs of alcohol overdose
• List the ways that alcohol use increases the risks of hazing
• Discuss ways to incorporate hazing education into substance misuse prevention efforts
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