Hydrate Campus Tours is making a stop in Selma on Sept. 1 to initiate a positive change in the community, starting with students.

The group is committed to touring the state and going to different schools to share a message of hope and to get students thinking about life choices.

“We’re just really trying to get people to think — think about what’s going on, think about the power of choices, actions, reactions, consequences,” said Tim Beck, founder and director of Hydrate Campus Tours. “It’s a character education, character development. We leave no rock unturned.”

Beck said his group talks to the students about depression, drugs and alcohol, teen pregnancy and more.

“Our mission for Selma is the same for any community, city that we go into it. It really is to empower young people to take a stand and to rise above all the negative influences that try to rob them of their destiny, their potential and their future,” Beck said. “We believe that we can help provide just healing and insight and empowerment to young people.”

Shelby High, a member of the group Apostolic Council Transformation Selma, said she wanted the tour to come to Selma.

“We’re hoping to accomplish [bringing] a positive change into the atmosphere of the schools,” High said. “Really reaching out and touching these kids lives and bringing them hope and encouragement. It takes a big effort from the city as a whole to come together and do this.”

According to High, Beck and his team have been in more than 50 public schools in Alabama and have seen major transformations.

“He’s just had extraordinary results from going into schools,” High said. “We’re just expecting to see the same results from all the other schools he’s gone into and that’s just a community shift and change in the atmosphere in the schools.”

Beck said it’s not just about getting the community involved during the tour but about a lasting impression.

“We can have a moment, but we want it to lead to a movement,” Beck said. “We don’t want something temporal, we want something permanent.”

The tour will take place at Selma High School and R.B. Hudson Middle School during school on Sept. 1, with a community-wide event at the high school at 6:30 p.m. The main event that night will consist of live bands, giveaways and more.