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YADAPP Benefits

Benefits to Schools and Communities

YADAPP benefits your school and community by:

  • Providing a platform and strategies to proactively address prevention and wellness.
  • Giving the opportunity to connect with other student and professional leaders across the commonwealth.
  • Increasing motivation and drive among youth.
  • Giving information and resources (including grants) needed to prevent substance use.

Benefits to Participants

  • Gain real world leadership experience working within YADAPP and their school and community.
  • Change their school or community by promoting positive, alcohol- and drug-free behavior.
  • Develop healthy relationships with peers and adults.
  • Build their resume.
  • Experience staying on a university campus for a week with a diverse group of peers in a supportive environment that embraces making positive choices.
  • Reaffirm their commitment to stay alcohol and drug free.

Benefits to Adult Sponsors

  • Gain strategies you can implement to strengthen your Team's connection to their school and community.
  • Earn CEU credit from Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Earn Department of Criminal Justice Services Partial In-Service Credit for law enforcement officers.
  • Network with fellow Adult Sponsors from across the Commonwealth to share ideas and gain support.
  • Prevention planning for the year
  • Get reinvigorated for the coming year.
  • Interact with and advocate for students. 

Contact Us

 

Community Health & Engagement
Virginia ABC
804-977-7440
[email protected]