This week the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has released the European Prevention Curriculum - a handbook designed for decision, opinion and policy makers in science-based prevention of substance use. The aim of the EUPC initiative is to implement a standardised prevention training curriculum in Europe and improve the overall effectiveness of prevention.

Adapted from the Universal Prevention Curriculum by the EU-funded UPC-Adapt group, the handbook is based on the International Standards on Drug Use Prevention and the European Drug Prevention Quality...

Si Standar Kualitas Pencegahan Obat Eropa  telah ditetapkan untuk menyediakan seperangkat kriteria komprehensif untuk membantu pengguna mempelajari cara mengenali kegiatan pencegahan 'berkualitas tinggi', menguraikan aspek struktural dan prosedural yang diperlukan dari pencegahan berkualitas tinggi, dan mendukung strategi untuk mengembangkan, menerapkan, dan meninjau praktik berbasis bukti yang efektif.

 Toolkit EDPQS telah disesuaikan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan berbagai kelompok profesional yang bekerja di bidang pencegahan.

Perangkat EDPQS 1: Pendanaan dan Pengambilan Keputusan

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The European Drug Prevention Quality Standards have been established to provide a comprehensive set of criteria to help users learn how to recognise 'high quality' prevention activities, outline the necessary structurally and procedural aspects of high-quality prevention, and support strategies to develop implement, and review effective evidence-based practice.

This Toolkit will be of use to everyone working within the drug prevention community. It will be of particular interest to those involved in planning or implementing a drug prevention activity, programme or initiative. Practitioners...

The European Drug Prevention Quality Standards have been established to provide a comprehensive set of criteria to help users learn how to recognise 'high quality' prevention activities, outline the necessary structurally and procedural aspects of high-quality prevention, and support strategies to develop implement, and review effective evidence-based practice.

EDPQS Toolkit 3 is intended for those wishing to provide training on quality standards in prevention. The Toolkit allows trainers to utilise existing knowledge and materials relating to training on EDPQS, instead of having to develop...

Standar Kualitas Pencegahan Obat Eropa telah ditetapkan untuk memberikan seperangkat kriteria komprehensif untuk membantu pengguna mempelajari cara mengenali kegiatan pencegahan 'berkualitas tinggi', menguraikan aspek struktural dan prosedural yang diperlukan dari pencegahan berkualitas tinggi, dan mendukung strategi untuk mengembangkan, menerapkan, dan meninjau praktik berbasis bukti yang efektif.

EDPQS Toolkit 4 bertujuan untuk membantu mempromosikan standar kualitas, dan khususnya EDPQS, dalam pencegahan narkoba. Ini berbagi pengalaman praktis dari pembuat kebijakan, praktisi dan peneliti...

The European Drug Prevention Quality Standards have been established to provide a comprehensive set of criteria to help users learn how to recognise 'high quality' prevention activities, outline the necessary structurally and procedural aspects of high-quality prevention, and support strategies to develop implement, and review effective evidence-based practice.

This toolkit has been developed especially for decision-makers (including policy-makers, policy-managers, policy-officers, commissioners and funders) working in the field of drug prevention or health promotion at national, regional...

This year's conference theme, Why Context Matters: Towards a Place-Based Prevention Science, challenges prevention scientists to explicitly recognize the central role that geographical concepts such as location, distance, distribution, connectivity, place, neighbourhood, and activity space (routine locations of individuals) have on health outcomes.

This call for papers seeks to stimulate creative spatial thinking to advance prevention science by further integrating place into existing behavioural theories, testing new theories and research designs, using technologies such as Geographic...

The Get Connected drug use prevention programme for 12-14 year old school children started in Mauritius in January 2019. This skills-based programme is inspired and adapted from the European Union Unplugged Programme. It is in line with the UNODC International Standards on Drug Use Prevention and implemented with the support of UNODC. The start was preceded by the sensitization of top leadership of the Ministry of Education, Human Resources, Tertiary Education and Scientific Research (MoEHRTESR) and Rectors and Managers of Secondary Schools on the programme. The prevention package was...

The Society for Prevention Research offers various opportunities for our members to help advance the mission and the strategic plan of the Society by getting involved in our committees.

SPR is now in the process of convening our committees for the 2019-2020 term.

The majority of committee work is handled through monthly conference calls. Committee members then volunteer to work on specific projects to advance the goals and objectives of each committee. The chair of each committee will invite prospective volunteers to join committees based on the needs of each committee, space available and...