The use of alcohol and tobacco is widespread in most countries and this has been the case for centuries. The age, at which young people begin to smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol varies across the countries, but young adolescence and adulthood is a period in life when this is likely to occur. In this period in life young people are also at the greatest risk of trying other psychoactive substances as well. The spread of illicit drugs in the western world resulted in an increasing number of young people experimenting with drugs. In many industrialized societies, drug use has become one of the most serious problems. Youth / peer workers are an important part of youth work in prevention for young people, because they can approach their peers more easily than adult experts. The main purpose of our proposal is promote educational program with an anon formal methodology to prevent alcohol and drug abuse among the young people. Specific Objectives: - to enhance key competences of the youth peer workers, included in the project. Evaluation team performed a systematic evaluation of gained knowledge and skills in two different groups; - Exchange Best practices concerning education paths for prevention: participants of the exchange will take part of the international training in Portugal , which will be performed by different project partners, who are specialized in specific aspects of the intervention and has the goal to sharing experiences and methodologies; Organization Partners: 6 organization from Italy, Turkish, Greece, France, Romania and Portugal involved in the youth field. Output: Created an intervention guidelines for youth worker. The idea is to develop an informational booklet on how to do good intervention work in an international team. Target: Youth, Youth workers, students,educators Impact: to actively contributed to the development of social innovation in the field of drug prevention through the promotion of new, more effective and cost-effective educational models.
The use of alcohol and tobacco is widespread in most countries and this has been the case for centuries. The age, at which young people begin to smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol varies across the countries, but young adolescence and adulthood is a period in life when this is likely to occur. In this period in life young people are also at the greatest risk of trying other psychoactive substances as well. The spread of illicit drugs in the western world resulted in an increasing number of young people experimenting with drugs. In many industrialized societies, drug use has become one of the most serious problems. The "Towards no drug abuse" project started from this premise and lasted 2 years and involved 6 European countries involved in the topic of drug addiction and non-formal education with young people. The project had a dual objective, namely: 1) Adapt and transfer the identified best practices relating to prevention methodologies based on non-formal education to the 6 partner countries; 2) Spread these best practices at local, regional, national and European level by involving a multi-actor partnership that starts from youth organizations, to schools. The project led to the creation of a Tangible Output, That is: The creation of an Intervention Guidelines for educators and Youth workers in the field of drug prevention (Peer Exchange Guidance) within which the Good Practices cataloged and tested are explained. Main Activities: 1.6 TPM 2.1 Training Activity in Braga; 3.Catalogation of Best Practices; 4.Analysis and evaluation; 5.Testing of the Cataloged Best Practices; 6. Booklet creation; 7.Dissemination activities. Impact: - encourage the spread of prevention methods through non-formal education in schools and youth sectors; - help to provide adequate information to different target groups of the population, in particular teachers, youth workers, parents, students and adolescents; - provide youth workers with teaching tools to be used in their association activities to promote prevention activities.