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Project Choice is a program designed to educate elementary-school children about alcohol, tobacco and drug addiction, and the life skills necessary to make healthy decisions about these substances. Our educators have worked in the San Francisco public school system since 1983, and in the area's private schools since 1998.
This innovative program is designed to reach students age 9-12 before they have begun experimenting with addictive substances and before their attitudes have become fixed and thus difficult to change.
The program aims to provide youth with:
objective information about alcoholism and other drug addictionsrealistic consequences of drug use on the mind and bodysocial skills to assist youth in handling peer pressureThe Project Choice curriculum:
empowers youth to make their own decisions inspired through building self-esteemprovides information about the short- and long-term consequences of using alcohol, drugs and tobacco assists youth in understanding the disease of addiction, and that alcoholics are ill -- rather than bad or weakteaches refusal skills to resist peer pressure and pressures that come from social influences such as advertisingSchools interested in Project Choice education and individual consultations offered by the Youth Services Department of NCADA-BA are invited to contact us at 415-296-9921. You may also Email us at yals@ncadaba.com.
National Council on Alcoholism and Other Drug Addictions--Bay Area
944 Market St., 3rd Fl., San Francisco, CA 94102
Tel: 415-296-9900 FAX: 415-296-0626 TDD: 415-296-1108
Email: info@ncadaba.com
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