Project Choice: Students For Substance Abuse Prevention is a training program designed to prepare college students for outreach immersion into their surrounding community as trained Peer Health Advocates. Project Choice Program Description
Project Choice: Students For Substance Abuse Prevention is a training program designed to prepare college students for outreach immersion into their surrounding
community as trained Peer Health Advocates. Special emphasis is placed on academic retention through health-based promotion to reduce the consequences associated with alcohol and other drug misuse/abuse, provide service learning experiences, and promote CSUDH and community resources. Project Choice History
AADAP, Inc. established and facilitated Project Choice at California State University, Long Beach and California State University, Los Angeles from 2003 - 2016 through a Federal grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services of SAMHSA’s Minority AIDS Initiative. AADAP, Inc., a community-based organization, provides comprehensive drug abuse prevention and treatment services in Los Angeles County. actively supports the movement of youth and young adult advocacy in the prevention of substance abuse and high-risk sexual behaviors. Project Choice, under the guidance of AADAP, Inc., coordinated partnerships with key student services and organizations both on and off campus to successfully reach over 1300 students annually at CSULB. Project Choice promotes peer-to-peer education through the training of college student volunteers and interns as ‘Peer Health Advocates’. Project Choice provides prevention education to college students through campus-wide presentations, interactive events, media campaigns, policy work, and referrals to HIV testing and other health services.
