National Conferences
  Bibliographies
  Data
  Funding
  The Main Frame
  Social Norms Model & Evaluation Tool
  Web Sites
  Guide Book

 

  A wide variety of resources are available for those who are currently engaged in, or investigating the implementation of, a social norms project. Here you will find more specific information as well as links to important web-based resources. These are divided into six topical areas:


National Conferences

Information about the upcoming or a past National Social Norms Conferences.; information is readily accessible by year in the navigation panel to the left.

The 2008 National Conference on the Social Norms Approach is scheduled for
July 20 - 22, 2008, in Burlingame, California at the Hyatt Regency, San Francisco Airport. Please see the Call for Programs for details; the submission deadline was March 21, 2008.

The conference schedule, and registration information, is now available here.


Topical Bibliographies

In order to make searching for references on social norms topics easier for you, we have created this new section. In it, you will find eleven topic areas, each with a bibliography that includes selected references with abstracts, as well as website links to case studies. In general, articles chosen for inclusion reflect current research and best practices.
Information about and links to:

  • The National College Health Assessment
  • Social Norms Surveys
  • High School Surveys
  • The College Campus Survey of Alcohol and other Drug Norms
  • Monitoring the Future
  • Others

Data
Information about and links to:
  • The National College Health Assessment
  • Social Norms Surveys
  • High School Surveys
  • The College Campus Survey of Alcohol and other Drug Norms
  • Monitoring the Future
  • Others

Funding
Links to a number of web sites that provide information about possible funding sources. They include:

  • Centers for Disease Control
  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program

Guide Book
A guide for practitioners who are implementing social norms projects, with resources and advice on generating news coverage and shifting the public debate on issues of health and safety


The Main Frame
This comprehensive, step-by-step manual was designed specifically for those who want to use the social norms approach to address school-age and community-wide issues, and it provides both the theoretical and practical information to do so effectively, and with fidelity to the model. As such, it will be a valuable resource for anyone involved in such an effort —be they community members, school administrators and staff, or health promotion professionals.


Social Norms Model and Evaluation Tool
These materials were developed at NSNI as a working tool, primarily to assist colleges and universities which are conducting social norms marketing interventions to reduce the adverse consequences associated with high risk alcohol consumption. Since many colleges and universities participate in the National College Health Assessment (NCHA), this document uses questions in the NCHA as examples of available relevant information.

The model and the assessment tool, although both written in terms of social norms marketing campaigns directed toward alcohol consumption, can be adapted for other issues. Please contact us at NSNI if you would like assistance in adapting this material for other social norms marketing interventions.


Web Sites
A number of web-based resources with useful information for those using the social norms approach. They include:

  • The Alcohol Education Project
  • The BACCHUS and GAMMA Peer Education Network
  • Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
  • The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
  • The Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention: Social Norms and Social Marketing
  • Inter-Association Task Force
  • Montana Most of Us
  • Social Norms Research UK
  • Social Norms Surveys Online
  • Youth Health and Safety: the Social Norms Approach