Transcript Our work in prevention - United Nations Office on Drugs

Session 1
Our work in prevention
Preventing Amphetamine-Type-Stimulant
(ATS) Use Among Young People
A UNODC Training Workshop
Our mission
 Identify and disseminate good
practices (what works and what
doesn’t work) on the prevention of
substance abuse
Preventing ATS use among youth
A UNODC Training Workshop
Identify good practices
 We bring together experts,
practitioners and youth to identify
‘what works’ and ‘what doesn’t work’
on the basis of their experience and
academic literature
Preventing ATS use among youth
A UNODC Training Workshop
Identify good practices
Our publications
Preventing ATS use among youth
A UNODC Training Workshop
Disseminate good practices (1)
Training
 Training workshops on different issues for
different audiences
 Community-based organisations and youth
groups: e.g. needs assessment and programme
planning, drug abuse prevention good practices,
and COMING SOON! monitoring & evaluation
 Sport coaches: how to include health promotion
messages in sports training
 Journalists: reporting on drug issues
 Policy makers: Preventing ATS use among young
people (welcome!)
Preventing ATS use among youth
A UNODC Training Workshop
Disseminate good practices (2)
Email listserv, website & newsletter
 Newsletter ‘Connekt’
 Email listserv – we send messages on
trends, good practices and new
initiatives
 Our website includes all our
publications as well as details to
contact us and links to other
organisations • visit us!
www.unodc.org/youthnet
Preventing ATS use among youth
A UNODC Training Workshop
Why a programme on ATS
prevention?
 More people use ATS than heroin and
cocaine together
 Long term consequences of some ATS
unknown
 Treatment less available than for
opiates and/ or cocaine
 Some efforts on preventing the
negative health consequences of ATS
use, but very little on prevention
Preventing ATS use among youth
A UNODC Training Workshop
Activities so far
 Identify good practices in ATS prevention
with the assistance of academic
researchers, practitioners and youth –
December 2005
 Publish guidelines on ATS prevention for
policy makers and NGOs – Both available in
final draft, publication forthcoming
 Develop and test training on ATS
prevention for policy makers and NGOs –
July 2006 in the Philippines and in India
Preventing ATS use among youth
A UNODC Training Workshop
Activities planned
 Series of national/ regional training
workshops for NGOs and/or policy makers
> THIS IS ONE OF THEM! WELCOME!
 Support financially and technically a few
programmes
 Based on a needs assessment
 Addressing two or more risk/protective factors
 Strong monitoring and evaluation
 Disseminate results of programmes
Preventing ATS use among youth
A UNODC Training Workshop