Your Partners for Transformative Change
Project AMP
Project Amp is a prevention and early intervention model that pairs near-age peers (young adults with lived/living experience) with adolescents in community and school settings. Project Amp mentors deliver a flexible, evidence-informed curriculum using a person-centered and youth-driven approach. Mentors support youth to work on strengths, interests, long- and short-term goals, wellness practices, community connections and relationships, and perceptions of alcohol, drugs, and mental health.
Sessions can be completed over 4-6 meetings:
- Session 0 (Optional): Rapport Building
- Establish schedule for meeting, build rapport, share more about the curriculum and what to expect
- Session 1: Getting to Know You
- Get to know each another, and explore what makes the participant happy, their strengths, and their goals and about any wellness concerns.
- Session 2: What Does it Mean to Be Well?
- Explore the concepts of health and wellness and ways to cope with stress.
- Session 3: Social Supports
- Help youth to understand their social influences and social support resources, and talk about alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
- Session 4: Wrap-up and Long-Term Planning
- Revisit conversations from past sessions and discuss a plan to help achieve goals and build supports.
- Closing Session (Optional):
- Check-in and revisit plans to reinforce continued focus on goals
Project Amp Mentors are:
- Near-age peers: They improve youth engagement by fostering trust, creating connections, and building relationships with healthy boundaries.
- Relatable: They understand the unique challenges of being a young person.
- Supportive: They can provide peer support and guidance based on their own experiences.
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Examples of Our Work
Project Amp Jumpstart: An Adaptation for Middle Schoolers
Project Amp Jumpstart was developed to respond to the growing need for prevention and early intervention services for pre-adolescents (aged 9-12) with funding from the MA Department of Public Health Bureau of Substance Addiction Services’ Office of Youth and Young Adult Services. Content was adapted to meet the developmental needs of younger adolescents, including changing language and reading levels of worksheets and activities, creating new interactive activities, focusing on age-appropriate protective and risk factors, and responding to the neurobiological stage of pre-adolescence. Email us for more info and to access the worksheets.
Group Project Amp
Since its inception, there has been an expressed need to adapt the Project Amp model for use in group settings as a way of being responsive to setting, community, and cultural needs. Our team developed a facilitation guide for mentors already trained and delivering Project Amp. Email us to access the guide.
Learn More
- Enhancing adolescent SBIRT with a peer-delivered intervention: An implementation study (Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, August 2019)
- A framework for integrating young peers in recovery into adolescent substance use prevention and early intervention (Addictive Behaviors, December 2019)