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Naples, Fl – The David Lawrence Centers, Collier County’s only comprehensive, not-for-profit mental health and substance use treatment facility serving children, adults and families, is pleased to announce registration is now being accepted for the Making Positive Choices Youth Prevention Group.

Making Positive Choices is a psycho-educational series that helps adolescents (14-18) who are experiencing difficulties making choices that support a healthy lifestyle take their life in the right direction. Whether they’re having problems with their peers, disregarding rules or experimenting with substance use, the Making Positive Choices group can help guide adolescents toward making the right decisions.

Making Positive Choices educates participants on the value of good health, positive decision making, recognizing risk-taking and substance use, understanding how the media impacts personal health, improving family communication, building healthy relationships and managing stress, anger and other emotions.

The program is covered in eight bi-weekly sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. at David Lawrence Center’s Horseshoe Satellite Services Office located at 2806 Horseshoe Drive. The cost is $75 and the next series of classes begins on Tuesday, September 6, 2016. For more information or to sign up, please call 239-263-4013.

David Lawrence Centers is the Southwest Florida-based, not-for-profit leading provider of behavioral health solutions dedicated to inspiring and creating life-changing wellness for every individual. The Center provides innovative, comprehensive inpatient, outpatient, residential and community based prevention and treatment services for the one in four local children and adults who experience mental health, emotional, psychological and substance use challenges. David Lawrence Centers has seven locations in Collier County and touches the lives of more than 50,000 people each year. For more information about David Lawrence Centers call (239) 491-7602 or visit www.DavidLawrenceCenter.org.

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