Founded in the fall of 2010, the Drug and Alcohol Awareness Program (DAAP) Team has a simple yet positive mission statement: To keep students at Hocking College safe, legal and informed. The DAAP Team, under the direction of Student Rights Responsibilities and Judicial Affairs, is staffed and operated by interns in the Choices Drug and Alcohol diversion program. The Team achieves these objectives with students by making clear to them the fundamental differences between use, abuse and dependence, thus enhancing the reward potential and personal satisfaction gained for making safe and positive choices when it comes to drug and alcohol consumption.

Since its inception, DAAP has participated in various co-curricular and community activities centered on its positive ideology. Activities include multicultural events, such as Cross-Cultural Night; relevant theme based contests at local schools, including the Poster Contest at Nelsonville-York Elementary School; fun, inclusive social activities, such as College Feud; open forum question and answer sessions with students; and presentations in collaboration with campus residency advisors at student residence halls.

The DAAP Team looks beyond the present and into the future, and continues to seek and achieve both positive and measurable progress by continuing its commitment to keep the student body of Hocking College, and the community that surrounds it, safe, legal and informed.