ASAP History
The Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention (ASAP) Program is a community based service project that was developed at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine with the aim to teach grade school students about their bodies and to make informed choices about drug use. ASAP's primary goal is to provide information to the children in an entertaining and interesting method that allows them to make an informed choice not to start using drugs.
The Indiana University affiliate of ASAP was first organized in the spring of 2001 as a volunteer community service program initiated and run by medical students under the auspices of the Office of Medical Service-Learning (OMSL). In the spring of 2002, the IU Department of Public Health received a two year Clarian Values Fund Grant to develop the ASAP program into a multi-disciplinary program that included student volunteers and faculty mentors from the schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing and the IU Department of Public Health.
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