NYU Langone awarded $600,000 to expand substance abuse education in Brooklyn schools

NYU Langone Health’s Sunset Park Health Council received a $600,000 grant this month to expand anti-overdose educational programs in Brooklyn. The Blue Shield Foundation and Anthem Blue Cross awarded the grant to fund NYU Langone’s Prevention Education Partnership, a program in which health care providers come to schools and teach tactics in preventing and responding to substance abuse. Over the next three years, the fund will help sustain the program, which has partnered with over 400 public schools in the city and trained more than 500 people to become PEP instructors since 2015.

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