The center fosters healthy lifestyles in Northern Virginia and delivers services to individuals, businesses, schools, agencies, and health care organizations.
Programs emphasize alcohol and other drug abuse prevention.
CAPH provides in-service training courses and workshops for school personnel, community leaders, local service providers, policy makers, and citizens. The center also assists in preparing needs assessments, program evaluations, data analyses, and research in health issues, and houses an extensive reference library of print and audiovisual materials, primarily on alcohol and drugs. The center is coordinated with the Departments of English and Modern and Classical Languages. Assistive and instructional technology, inclusion, and multicultural and early childhood special education are common elements of many current CHd projects. The center provides cooperative education and overnight retreat facilities, as well as nature education programs and recreational opportunities to school systems, corporations, and church and community groups.