Every Choice Has Opportunity (ECHO)

Many of the biggest risks to young people in the U.S. – criminal justice involvement, violence, drug use, car crashes, school dropout – stem from in-the-moment decisions people often go on to regret. The good news is that it’s possible to teach young people to avoid predictable decision-making traps in ways that make their lives better through cognitive behavioral interventions.

But those programs are often hard to scale because they require additional or specialized staff and resources that can be hard to come by.

To fill this gap, we’ve created Every Choice Has Opportunity (ECHO), a free, open-source curriculum that any organization can deliver with their existing staff. Created by the University of Chicago in partnership with youth and non-profit providers, ECHO is modularized so that programs can incorporate it into what they’re already doing or use it as a new, standalone programming component.

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