Columbus Urban League

www.cul.org

788 Mt. Vernon Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43203-1408, Phone: 257-6300, Fax: 257-6327

Email: info@cul.org

The Columbus Urban League promotes the full participation of African Americans and other disadvantaged citizens in the economic and social fabric of our society. Individual dignity and family stability are the League's ultimate goals. Through education, job training and placement, public policy development and family health programs, the League focuses on securing economic and social independence for African Americans and other disadvantaged people.

The Columbus Urban League's Project Survival is designed to address a wide range of risk and protective factors by teaching general personal and social skills in combination with drug resistance skills and normative education during a 9-week grading period during which, three major content areas are covered including:

• Drug resistance skills and information provide material that deals directly with social factors promoting drug and tobacco use;
• The self-management skills content area provides students with skills for increasing independence, personal control, and a sense of self-mastery; and
• General social skills enhance students social competence with a variety of general social skills, including skills for communicating effectively, overcoming shyness, learning to meet new people, and developing healthy relationships.

Project Survival serves students at Beery, Southmoor Middle School, Barrett, Monroe, Champion Middle Schools as well as the Africentric Middle School.