Long-form description and mission statement

Action for Personal Choice

This description page mentions Galle Ed Inc. It also includes a mission statement. I believe this is a fairly recent version. Galle Educational Services, Inc. is a private, not-for-profit corporation which was incorporated on June 1,1992. Chester S. Galle, the president of Galle Educational Services, developed and facilitates the Action for Personal Choice (APC) program, a structured, flexible, readiness program originally designed for adults but also effective with young people.

APC is a 120-hour program in which learners gain the social and behavioral skills needed to participate fully in education and training courses, make informed life decisions, secure employment, and build healthy personal and professional relationships The focus of the program is on the students' attitudes, thinking and behavior. The curriculum stresses process over content and is designed to be continually responsive to the particular needs of the group. Presentations are included on addictions, compulsions and family systems, with optional units on family violence and sexual abuse. As one student put it, :APC is "an intensive course to find out who you really are and how to change your ways for the better."

In Action for Personal Choice, students learn to overcome barriers in their lives and to take responsibility for their own thinking and behavior. They realize, often for the first time, that they can choose the kind of life they want for themselves and achieve that life by setting and working toward realistic goals. As a result of Action for Personal Choice, learners can move from dependence to independence, from self-doubt to self-confidence, from a negative to a positive way of life.

The mission of the Action for Personal Choice program is to provide an opportunity for individuals who are on public assistance to learn how to:

identify and remove barriers to their success in life;
develop positive thinking and behavior patterns;
increase their self-esteem;
set goals for their lives and make plans to reach them;
make responsible choices;
describe themselves in an essay entitled, "Who Am I?"
examine their current behaviors to determine if there are changes they wish to make in order to develop and maintain more healthy relationships with others;
review their lives to see if a compulsion or an addiction needs to be dealt with;
use a computer;
apply Action for Personal Choice principles in their work and in their personal lives.