Welcome to CHC
Resiliency...Critical thinking...Strong character
Everyone needs these personal assets to face the changes and challenges of life in the 21st century. We use them everyday to help us make positive decisions about how we live and act.
Helping people-especially children-build these assets is the foundation of everything we do at Center for Humanistic Change.
CHC's mission: To engage community members in opportunities to prepare for life's challenges through prevention education and life skills training, and programs that encourage healthy decision-making, positive choices, and peaceful living.
CHC provides prevention education programs for children and teenagers that teach them about self-esteem, respecting themselves, taking responsibility for their choices, and the impact of ATOD (alcohol, tobacco & other drug) use
CHC programs also teach children and youth how to find alternatives to violence and conflict, and prevent and respond to bullying.
CHC also presents life skills programs that train people of all ages in ways to develop their personal assets and resiliency, and make positive choices in their personal, social, and work lives.
Our programs engage the whole person, head, heart, and hands, in the learning process; we believe people learn better by doing.
Prevention Saves!
It's far less expensive to help young people build character and learn how to make healthy choices than it is to pay the financial and social costs of violence, crime, and addiction.
Research shows every dollar invested in prevention saves $5-10 worth of drug and alcohol treatment (National Institute on Drug Abuse)
CHC has been serving residents of the Lehigh Valley for more than 30 years. During the 2008-09 program year, we reached more than 22,000 people.
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