Healthy Choices Program
How do you cope?
Alcohol and/or other drugs may impact college students. Healthy Choices is designed to offer prevention and wellness education as well as tips and tools for navigating a variety of real-life situations in a judgment-free and empathetic way.
Students will meet with a Health Educator on a one-on-one or small group basis.
Students who go through the University of Kansas Student Conduct process may be recommended to complete one of the programs below. While these programs may be recommended for some, students may also opt-in for any of these educational programs. Everything discussed during these sessions is strictly confidential.
If you have questions about the program, please contact Samuel Beecher at scbeecher@ku.edu.
CHOICES SESSIONS
CHOICES I is an educational program about alcohol and/or other drugs done in a small group setting. This session lasts approximately two hours and includes topics such as:
- Why a person choose to use
- Understanding the effects of alcohol and other drugs within the body
- What steps a person can take to make safer and healthier decisions regarding use
CHOICES II is an educational program about alcohol and/or other drugs done one-on-one over three sessions. The first two sessions last approximately one hour and the third is a short follow-up session and include topics such as:
- Why a person choose to use
- Understanding the effects of alcohol or other drugs within the body
- What steps a person can take to make safer and healthier decisions regarding use
- Family history
- Patterns of behavior
- Academic life
- Social skills and behavior
- Connection to other resources