My Sister, My Responsibility®
Behind Happy Faces is a cutting-edge mental health program that includes a two-pronged approach—a series of lessons for collegians and a series of online workshops for advisors and volunteers. The collegiate program is five lessons designed to better understand mental health, create effective coping mechanisms, approach a friend who may need help and support suicide prevention. Workshops are available to ZTA chapters only by going to Z-Learning through a partnership with Ross Szabo.
Generation Rx focuses on raising awareness about the dangers of prescription drug misuse and the potential it has to derail a student's college career and beyond. Workshops will include a general program about safe medication practices for life and specific educational resources focusing on the dangers of misusing opioid pain medications, prescription stimulants and sedatives. Find the latest workshops here.
Preventing and Confronting Hazing educates members about hazing and the negative impact it can have on individuals, chapters, and the organization as a whole. It empowers chapter members to prevent and confront hazing and other destructive behaviors, while reinforcing friendship, sisterhood and ZTA values.
Seeking Understanding is a program focused on ZTA’s commitment to inclusion and belonging. We want to ensure all members feel seen, heard and celebrated in their chapter. These peer-facilitated workshops consist of topics like personal and social identities, genuine conversations, microaggressions, cultural appropriation, power and privilege, and how to support your sisters of all different backgrounds.
Teaching Social Responsibility teaches members how to prevent and confront problematic drinking and hold themselves and others accountable for their actions while showing care and concern for their sisters. It empowers chapter members to avoid incident by embracing positive prevention strategy and the values of ZTA.
ZTA designed the My Sister, My Responsibility® program to create conversation around risk, educate members about the duty of care for themselves and others, and emphasize the mission and purpose of Zeta Tau Alpha. In an effort to enhance our goals, we share these programs with other fraternities and sororities and university professionals.
Experts in the fields of hazing, alcohol education and drug abuse prevention developed 19 workshops for the program’s six components: Behind Happy Faces; Generation Rx; Hazing Prevention and Confrontation; Seeking Understanding; and Teaching Social Responsibility. Workshops address the topics from a wide variety of angles, helping women learn how to prevent problematic behavior, hold themselves and others accountable, and reinforce friendship and sisterhood.