Prevention

Drug prevention and healthy development of children: Caring for your child in a crisis situation

Book

19 October 2021

Crisis situations, such as security incidents, earthquakes and floods, are on the increase and often leave families very vulnerable. Parents that have lived through crisis situations have reported how concerned they are about their children...

Identifying NGOs working on drug treatment in humanitarian settings

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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and specifically the Prevention Treatment and Rehabilitation Section (PTRS) are working on addressing substance use and substance use disorders in humanitarian settings. In this context...

SPR 2022 Call for Submissions Now Open! Deadline: 11/15/2021

Please send submissions for all calls (Papers, Preconference Workshops, NIDA International Posters, Special Interest Groups) by November 15, 2021.

SPR International Early Career Funding to attend EUSPR 2021 Conference online, 29/09/21-1/10/21

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The SPR Board of Directors has allocated $3,000 in funds to support early-career prevention researchers to attend the EUSPR. The purpose of the travel funds is to enable ECPNers to attend EUSPR and network on behalf of SPR, especially with...

New Free Evaluation Tools from Prevention Plus Wellness

Website

17 September 2021

Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) has updated their free program Pretest and Posttest Surveys and Fidelity Checklist for use by prevention providers to ensure their programs are being implement reliably and result in positive outcomes for...

Evaluating Substance Use Prevention Plus Wellness Programs: Free Webinar

22 September 2021

St. Augustine/Florida

United States

Objectives:

1. Identify purposes for evaluating substance use prevention programs.
2. Describe measurement tools and measures to assess substance use Prevention Plus
Wellness (PPW) programs.
3. Examine evaluation designs for determining risk/protective factor and behavior effects of prevention programs.
4. Explore case studies of PPW program evaluations.

Alcohol and substance use prevention in Africa

Scientific article

Substance use continues to be a key public health concern in Africa. Despite this, there have been few reviews that have examined the current research on the subject. This study examines the existing research on the prevention of alcohol...

INEP-Plus National Chapter pilot course (an introduction to evidence-based practice/INEP)

19 September 2021

Islamabad

Pakistan

TRAINING NAME: INEP Plus, an Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice (INEP)

LOCATION (COUNTRY & REGIONS): Pakistan

STAKE HOLDER/IMPLEMENTING AGENCY: ISSUP Pakistan Chapter

ISSUP continues to support Listen First

Listen First is a UNODC initiative to support science-based drug use prevention. This feature on ISSUP's support for the initiative was published in the September 2021 edition of the Listen First Newsletter (Number 8)

Monitoring and evaluation for community based prevention systems

News

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) are essential in strengthening Community-Based Prevention Implementation Systems, through this process organizations collect and analyze data, and determine if the Substance use prevention- intervention (EBIs...