Youth work
This research explored the delivery of drugs prevention through youth work. Youth workers are well placed to deliver drugs prevention interventions because of their privileged access to young people.
Esta guia enmarca y describe el fenómeno del consumo de drogas en los adolescentes, revisa los nuevos patrones de consumo entre los menores, describe los factores de riesgo y los factores de protección y sugiere posibles estrategias para abordar dificultades.
This evaluation guide considers how to plan an evaluation and concentrates on identifying appropriate evaluation questions and outcome measures.
The available study aimed at the analysis of the risk and/or protection factors for problematic drug consumption with young people as well as the requirements in view to target-group-specific prevention measures.
The objective is it to analyse the possibilities and borders of a conversion of the integrative beginnings in the except-school young final work and an intensified co-operation and cross-linking recommended in the report of the previous year.
Double impact youth prevention
Belgium
The project recruits young people -at risk- who are looking for employment, and trains them in order to offer them employment as youth prevention workers in their local areas.
Frontline Community Drugs Project
Ireland
The Frontline Project was developed to provide a co-ordinated and integrated contact for young people between the ages of 12 and 21 who are involved in drug misuse and experiencing social exclusion because of their drug use and socio-economic background.
Ferrybank drug prevention project
Ireland
The project aims to divert 12-20 year olds in Ferrybank, Waterford from drug and alcohol misuse, specifically targeting young people that have been identified as being at risk of engaging in substance misuse. To achieve the aims and objectives the project uses youth work models to involve young people in constructive developmental activity and drug education programmes.
Making kids strong through sport
Austria
An extensive programme promoting physical activities in sports clubs. The concept of the programme is that sport clubs and their staff have an important role to play in prevention activities, and that sports activities should be about personal development and not competitive performance.
Youth counselling centre wagon
Austria
Stuated in a railway carriage in the front of Modling railway station. 1000s of young people pass though the station everyday commuting to and from school. The centre offers various activities, support and counselling to young people aged between 13-23, with a focus on 18-20 year olds. The centre receives an average of 50 visits per day and in 1999 provided 513 counselling session.
Urban Vienna Gurtel plus
Austria
The main objective of the project was to prevent the development of addiction problems among ‘at risk’ young people and to support their social integration. It focussed in particular on the encouragement of regional networking between youth work in schools and non-school institutions.
Youth addiction and counselling centre Auftrieb
Austria
The centre, which is located in the industrial city of Wiener Neustadt, targets young people providing a confidential, easy to reach free service.
Street work mobile youth work Rumtrieb Wiener Neustadt
Austria
An outreach project that aims to prevent the development of problematic drug abuse patterns, this achieved through contacting problematic young people.