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Health promotion and addiction prevention in children‘s and youth organizations

Health promotion and addiction prevention in children‘s and youth organizations. Voilà is a health promotion and addiction prevention program focused on children‘s and youth organizations in Switzerland a network of 16 cantonal programs in 19 cantons

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Health promotion and addiction prevention in children‘s and youth organizations

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  1. Health promotion and addiction prevention in children‘s and youth organizations

  2. Voilà is • a health promotion and addiction prevention program focused on children‘s and youth organizations in Switzerland • a network of 16 cantonal programs in 19 cantons • a program of the Swiss National Youth Council (SNYC)

  3. PROphyl TG Rüeblichrut AG Spoiz ZH Ganzheitlichkeit SO Kaktus SG/AI/AR Voilà ZG oase LU Voilà SZ Me Voilà NE fäischter OW / NW Voilà BE Momänt UR Voila-Viva GR JV VD Voilà VS Voilà FR

  4. Basic focus • Voilà aims to support children and youth as they develop into healthy adults. • «Health» is understood as holistic well-being. • Goals • Increasing the • mental • physical • and social • well-being of children and youth

  5. Target group • Voilà is aimed at the youth organizations in Switzerland. • The target groups are: • Girls and boys taking part in youth organizations‘ summer camps. • young women and men organizing summer camps as leaders of a youth organization. • young women and men working for Voilà as multipliers (cantonal program leaders).

  6. Yearly plenary meeting: One delegate from each cantonal program Voilà coordination office Training and continuing education section Network section Finances section Voilà in French-speaking Switzerland section Visions section One representative from each cantonal program in each section 16 cantonal Voilà programs in 19 cantons Target group: Summer camps organized by youth organizations such as Pfadi, Blauring/Jungwacht, CEVI etc. (both the youth leading the camps and camp participants 6-16 years old) Steering committee: One representative from each section And the coordination office as moderator of the steering committee

  7. Projects • The projects expand on and substantiate Voilà‘s goals • Project length: 2 years each • Examples: • «Voilà in motion – Nutrition and exercise in children‘s and youth camps» • Project seeking to sensitize leaders to designing a gender-sensitive camp atmosphere and activities • «Mental well-being – self-efficacy 2007/2008» • Skills for communication and achievement – 2009/2010 • Preventing intoxication and promoting risk management skills – 2011/2012

  8. Project implementation • Training and continuing education • for cantonal program leaders • for camp leaders • for camp coaches • based on each project topic.

  9. Training and continuing education section & national steering committee train Cantonal program leaders Cantonal program leaders Camp coaches train train coach Camp leaders train Children and youth

  10. Project implementation • 2) Making resources available • for planning and implementing training events for camp leaders and coaches • for designing camp activities (planning and preparation) • for running camps • Examples: • Checklist for planning and running summer camps on the topic „Self-efficacy“ • Guidelines for nutrition and exercise: „Healthy at camp“ • Ideas for designing camp activity blocks around the project theme

  11. Project implementation • 3) Running summer camps on each project theme: • camp activity blocks focused on the theme • making specific camp rules • designing camp conditions around the theme • other canton-specific features

  12. Project implementation 4) Camp supervision 5) Evaluation

  13. Basic principles • Participation: children, youth and young adults help design activities • Empowerment: Encouraging and empowering children, youth and young adults to tackle challenges and take on responsibility • Leading by example: sensitizing camp leaders to their role as role models • Gender sensitivity: helping children and youth develop a good attitude toward their gender and the opposite gender • Further development: openness for new topics and methods, evaluation and optimization, participatory working methods

  14. Key dates and figures • First cantonal program founded (SO): 1989 • Voilà founded: 1993 • Number of Voilà accredited summer camps run every year: ca. 350 • Number of children and youth reached every year: ca. 15‘000 • Number of leaders trained per year: ca. 1000 • Yearly revenue: ca. CHF 600‘000.- • Cost per child/youth reached: CHF 37 • Accolades: • 2001: from the Mentor Foundation • 2004: 1st European Prevention Prize of the Council of Europe • 2004: Aeberhardt Prize for Health Promotion on behalf of the Eduard Aeberhardt Foundation

  15. Contact Voilà SAJV / CSAJ Gerechtigkeitsgasse 12 P.O. Box 3000 Bern 8 www.voila.ch or info@voila.ch

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