Tools & FAQ
The Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project (WisAPP) focuses on preventing excessive alcohol use, to improve public health, safety, and our state鈥檚 economy. WisAPP provides training, tools, and technical assistance via email, telephone, video conference, and in-person.
What do you want to learn?
Tools
WisAPP provides tools in the form of data, information, and strategies to help communities to work together to prevent excessive alcohol use.
Training
Training can be requested on a variety of topics. We are happy to customize training to fit your needs! Please contact us with any questions or to request specific training. Trainings include:
- Alcohol Age Compliance Checks (AACC)
- Place of Last Drink (POLD)
- Understanding alcohol data
- Recent alcohol beverage trends
- Preventing underage drinking
- Alcohol licensing process
- Alcohol and injury
- Women and alcohol
- Understanding the municipal alcohol licensing process
- Festivals and picnic licenses
- Understanding the brewery permit process
- Conducting an inventory of municipal alcohol policies
- General information about the impact of excessive alcohol use
- Potential policies or practices that can reduce or prevent excessive use
- How to use the SCAODA report
Technical Assistance
Technical assistance is provided to support communities as they work on alcohol related issues in their communities. Recent questions have been around alcohol licenses, AACC, Place of Last Drink, underage drinking, social host laws, festivals, and density. WisAPP will gladly provide research and information on alcohol in Wisconsin. We welcome opportunities to share information and provide you with facts and data.
WisAPP is a regular presenter at a variety of conferences, including in 2022 at the Wisconsin Public Health Association, American Public Health Association, AP-19, National Alcohol Policy Conference, and for many organizations and coalitions.
Please email us at mbusalacchi@mcw.edu or fborisyrudin@mcw.edu to discuss your request and schedule a time!
WisAPP Resources
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Frequently Asked Questions
Useful information about WisAPP services and resources
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Infographics
Visuals to communicate about community action
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Municipal Inventory of Alcohol Policies
Existing community resources for preventing excessive alcohol use
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