© 2011 Department of Addiction Prevention, ISP/SDW Young People and Prevention A Main Focus of the Viennese Addiction Prevention ENSA/General Assembly.

© 2011 Department of Addiction Prevention, ISP/SDW

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)