Standing for drugs, alcohol, and tobacco education, D.A.T.E. at the Beach is a new award-winning program at Cal-State Long Beach that takes place on Wednesday evening. The program is not an intervention but a proactive presentation in hopes of exposing the ATOD Program to the campus community, and provide information and resources to all students. However, this is not only peer education, but groups of student-to-student interaction where they exercise their communication on the issue.
Ralph Davis is the ATOD coordinator and one of the Health Beat editors. He says that ATOD peer educators conduct the outreach to usually a classroom size of 30 students in Residence Halls, fraternities and sororities, athletics, various classrooms, and during annual events and activities; whomever requests the location.
D.A.T.E. at the Beach covers a variety of topics such as the dangers of drinking and driving, sexual assault, date-rape, and other sensitive topics about alcohol, tobacco and other drug issues. But its overall goal is to promote overall safe and healthy choices.
It's not rehab!
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