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Young People and Prevention A Main Focus of the Viennese Addiction Prevention ENSA/General Assembly Vienna, 09.06.2011. Sonja Geyer Department of Addiction Prevention, ISP/SDW. Overview. Role of addiction prevention within the Viennese Drug Policy Programme - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Young People and Prevention
A Main Focus of the Viennese
Addiction Prevention
ENSA/General Assembly Vienna, 09.06.2011
Sonja Geyer
Department of Addiction Prevention, ISP/SDW
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Overview
1. Role of addiction prevention within the Viennese Drug Policy Programme
2. Selected measures in reference to children and families
3. Selected measures in reference to young people
4. Forecast to thematic topic of „World Café“
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Role of addiction prevention withinthe Viennese drug policy programme
Topic 1
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The Four Pillars Of Drug Policy In Vienna
selected goals and spheres of activity
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Vienna Drug Policy Programme 1999
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Addiction Prevention – Main Goals
to promote health and to prevent addiction
Goal 1:
Goal 2:
to identify addiction related problems in time, to intervene soon
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Department Of Addiction Prevention ISP
• Division of the „Vienna Agency for Coordination of Drug Affairs“
• directly responsible to the City Councillor for Public Health
• local center of excellence for addiction prevention
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Main Responsibilities
• to plan, coordinate and implement prevention in Vienna on a strategic level
- sensibilisation for addiction prevention as a cross-social topic
- development of pilot projects- development of information material- networking - quality management
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Main Strategic Approaches
• „Setting-Approach“implement basic prevention knowledge in the vocational training of relevant multipliers and professionals in different settings, based on specific needs and conditions
• „Multiplier-Approach“multiply prevention knowledge by training relevant multipliers and professionals or by organising professional meetings and events
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Main Professional Focuses (I)
• „Life Skills“
Advancement, development and improvement of personal and social skills of individuals (e.g. problem solving, critical thinking, self-awareness)
• „Early Intervention“Early intervention for special target groups which are on the barrier between risky and problematic consumtion patterns but without a manifestation of addiction
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Main Professional Focuses (II)
• „Prevention of Alcohol Related Problems“Supporting/promoting a self-reflexive and critical attitude towards alcohol consumption
• „Risky Behaviour“Supporting/promoting a self-reflexive and critical attidude towards risky behaviour or risky consumtion patterns
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Main Professional Focuses (III)
• „Digital Media“Supporting/promoting a self-reflexive and critical attitude towards using mobile phones, computer and internet
• „Prevention of Problematic Gambling“ Supporting/promoting a self-reflexive and critical attidude towards risky patterns by gambling
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Prevention AttitudeDemocratic-emancipatory
idea of man/woman
Paternalistic-controlled
idea of man/woman
• Prohibition
• Determent
• Strictly decrease of range
• Responsibility for one‘s life• Promoting special skills • Promoting early recognition• Regulation of range• Social Responsibility
Uhl, A. (2004): Wie viel Freiheit braucht Suchtprävention – wie viel Zwang verträgt sie?
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Way Of Working
• holistic view
• sustainability
• scientific experiences/standards
• methodical diversity
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Selected measures in reference to children & families
Topic 2
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Project Target Group Goal OutputWie schütze ich mein Kind vor Sucht?
Dorthin können Sie sich wenden
Parents of children under 12/14 years
Giving parents an overview about substances, addiction and prevention; supporting them with practical information how to foster individual and social skills of a child
Guide for parents
Guide with selected adresses of institutions giving support and counselling
Erziehung beginnt bei den Erziehenden – Suchtvorbeugung auch
Professionals working in kinder-garten, nursery, after-school care club etc.
Implementation of basic knowledge concerning addiction and addiction prevention in (early) childhood
Vocational training of relevant multipliers and professionals
BilderRausch Young people >14 years; parents; adults with educational responsibility
Sensibilisation and constitution of awareness about alcohol; enlarge preventive scope of action
DVD with 7 short films with thematic focus on „youth and alcohol“
Selected Measures – Children & Families
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Selected measures in reference toyoung people
Topic 3
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Selected Measures – Young PeopleProject Target Group Goal Output
Pocket-Info Alkohol
Young people > 12 years; key persons working with young people
Specific information about alcohol for target group
Information booklet
MOVE – MOtivierende KurzinterVEntion bei konsumierenden Jugendlichen
Multipliers working with young people which show risky consumption patterns
Improvement of the dialog between multipliers and young people consumung legal or illegal substances; consolidation of motivation to chance former behaviour
Vocational training of relevant multipliers and professionals
Forumtheater„Mit Maß und Ziel – Es kotzt mich an“
Young people > 12 years; key persons working with young people
Sensibilisation and animation to a public discussion about „youth and alcohol“
Participative plenary theatre according to Augusto Boal
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Forecast to thematic topic of “World Café”
Topic 4
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Thematic Topic Of „World Café“
„Drug prevention and the focus of alcohol prevention in Vienna“
- Alcohol consumption in Austria (facts & figures)
- Prevention of alcohol related problems on events (strategic background and transfer into practice)
- PartyFit! (the core elements of this project and discussion)