Dr Rachele Donini, MSC PSY, Psychologist and Psychotherapist, is based since 1995 in the Public Local Health Agency (ASL 2-Savona, Italy), Department of Mental health and addiction.
After many years in both the clinical and prevention field, since 2007 she is at the head of the Drug Prevention Unit. Her current work is about drug prevention planning and implementation, project management, and European project planning.
In the last 12 years, she's been involved in several European projects aimed to improve and to disseminate the science of prevention, such as the EDPQS (European drug prevention quality standards) project, the EUPC (European prevention curriculum) project and she currently is the Scientific Coordinator of the ASAP-Training project, funded by the European Commission.
She's a member of the EMCDDA’s (European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction) Advisory Board for the implementation and dissemination of the EUPC. She is certified by EMCDDA as a European trainer for EUPC.
Since 2019 she’s in EUSPR’s board of directors. In 2020 she's been awarded by EUSPR (European Society for Prevention Research) with the “Leading European Prevention Science Practitioner” Honour.
In 2021 she has been a consultant for ISSUP global in the development of the INEP Plus course and in the training of the course facilitators.
Abstract
Quality of training modules in prevention – INEP, INEP Plus
The Universal Prevention Curriculum – UPC was created globally, led by Zili Sloboda, with a team of highly qualified scientists and prevention experts, Applied Prevention Science International (APSI). UPC is a combination of essential information in the field of prevention with a focus on evidence-based programs. The International Consortium of Universities for Drug Demand Reduction – ICUDDR supports this curriculum. Another international institution supporting UPC dissemination and its partial outputs is The International Society of Substance Use Prevention and Treatment Professionals – ISSUP. Under the leadership of Roman Gabrhelík (Department of Addictology, Charles University) an online course INEP - Introduction to Evidence-Base Prevention was established based on the European adaptation of UPC Adapt project. The INEP course is already in several language versions and has its INEP Plus extensions. The INEP Plus version consists of a number of sessions, alternated with the self-administered INEP lectures, facilitated by a trainer that helps trainees to deepen the contents of the INEP course. Prevention education is a priority worldwide. Nowadays, online teaching is becoming an essential part of education systems. One of the foundations of evidence-based practices is the art of combining the expertise and interactivity of a course environment.