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CTYF Enters Grant Contest To Expand Peer-to-Peer Leadership Groups in 15 High Schools in the Northeast

Please vote and spread the word this month as we need your support to help win the grant!

We all know that today’s youth face tremendous pressures and risks every day for developing alcohol and other drug problems. By connecting youth-to-youth and offering positive peer-to-peer support in school, we can play a key role in helping young people make connections with new people, places, and things to rebuild their lives.

CTYF’s plan is to cross-fertilize what has happened at Central High School of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Their peer-to-peer prevention and recovery support program called “The Leadership Group,” now has over 500 students supporting each other to stay clean. This program creates positive culture changes in public schools by empowering students to help other students live drug and alcohol free, and creating an attitude of “it’s cool to be sober.”