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Why Alcohol and Drugprevention Among Youth – ADPY?

The ADPY initiative aims to create a sustainable infrastructure for alcohol and drug prevention among youth, focusing on various indicators such as health status, lifestyle activities, family influence, substance use, and more. By conducting school and community surveys, measuring consumption trends, and evaluating risk factors, local recommendations are tailored for each municipality to address specific needs effectively.

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Why Alcohol and Drugprevention Among Youth – ADPY?

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  1. Why Alcohol and Drugprevention Among Youth – ADPY? Convention on the Rights of the Child Article 33 States Parties shall take all appropriate measures, including legislative, administrative, social and educational measures, to protect children from the illicit use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances as defined in the relevant international treaties, and to prevent the use of children in the illicit production and trafficking of such substances.

  2. Aim To build an effective suistainable infrastructure for alcohol- and drugprevention among youth

  3. Indicators Health status indicators, anxiety, depressive symptoms, physical health status, lifestyle and leisure time activities, local community networks, negative life events and strain, parents and family, peer groupeconomic and psychological issues, studies and school, substance use, values and attitudes, violence and delinquency, and more…

  4. How to do it? • School-survey among 15-16 years old • Community readiness survey • Measuring alcohol, drug, tobacco concumption • Looking at risk- and protective factors • Measuring how prepared a municipality is to change their way to work

  5. What’s in it? Local recommendations for each municipality Every school, every parent, every prevention worker can see the current situation in their close community and can act accordingly.

  6. Example City X

  7. TartuMay 2013 Thank you!

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