Objectives of GOT

1. Train youth on skills required to educate, motivate, mobilize, and act on issues such as alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

2. Provide youth with lifelong skills needed to create positive change on any public health, safety, or social change issue.

3. Train adults on how to support, guide, and assist youth.

Anticipated Outcomes

The desired short term outcome is groups of youth working with adults to encourage positive change in their communities using proven, research based strategies that focus on changing the environment, thus impacting a large group of people with each effort.

The desired long-term outcomes are as follows:

1. A reduction in ATOD use by youth and adults in Louisiana.

2. Policies, laws, and enforcement that reduce underage drinking, irresponsible drinking by adults, and drug use.

3. A change in attitude about underage drinking in Louisiana to where citizens of the state clearly oppose underage drinking and work to prevent youth access and consumption of alcohol.