School-Based

Using educational settings to foster social-emotional learning and prevent the use of substances.

Empowering Communities Across Borders: Adapting School and Family Based Prevention for Global Impact

Video and audio recordings

17 September 2025

This presentation will explore how culturally adaptable, evidence-based prevention programs rooted in school and family setting can be scaled across borders to address substance use and mental health challenges in diverse, low resource communities.

Massive Study Flips Our Story of Addiction and the Brain

Website

7 July 2025

A large U.S. study has found that some children and teens who start using alcohol, cannabis, or nicotine at an early age already show differences in their brains before they ever try any substance. This challenges the common belief that...

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Improving reach and access to health promotion and preventive services for vulnerable children and adolescents

Booklet

Across Europe, one in four children faces poverty or social exclusion, with vulnerable groups—such as migrants, refugees, and children from disadvantaged families—bearing the greatest burden. These disparities were worsened by the COVID-19...

MEET-UP EVENT - CONNECT & PROTECT NETWORK ACTIVITY, INTRODUCING ISSUP VIETNAM

Community update

29 March 2025

Hanoi, March 28, 2025 — In a significant step forward for the field of substance use prevention and care in Vietnam, the WECARE Center and the Center for Training and Research on Substance Abuse – HIV (CREATA-H) co-hosted a national...

School-Based Prevention

20 May 2025

- Online

Join us as for an informative webinar on school-based prevention featuring Dr. Dorothy Joann Lei Rabajante, Universal Prevention Curriculum Global Master Trainer and Dean of the School of Education, Ateneo de Zamboanga University.

Dr. Dorothy Joann Lei Rabajante Dr. Rabajante will provide an in-depth look at the science behind prevention strategies.

Attendees will learn to:

National Training Program on Prevention in Schools: The Paraguayan Experience

News

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In 2024, a public call from the Ministry of Education and Science for the contracting of a higher education institution to design and implement a training programme in strategies for preventing psychoactive substance use...

Money Matters: Time for Prevention and Early Intervention to Address Family Economic Circumstances

Scientific article

14 March 2025

Background Child poverty is linked to poorer physical and mental health, negative educational outcomes, and long-term social and psychological issues, all of which increase service demand and costs. Traditionally, prevention and early...

Rapid Adaptation to Prevent Drug Use (RAPD): protocol of a pilot randomized trial to enhance the impact of an evidence-based intervention for youth

Scientific article

21 January 2025

Background Drug use trends among youth change rapidly, making it difficult for experts to respond quickly. Delays in addressing these issues can lead to preventable health problems and deaths. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for...

Rapid Adaptation to Prevent Drug Use (RAPD): protocol of a pilot randomized trial to enhance the impact of an evidence-based intervention for youth.

Teacher Training Program Series - Collage of Teacher Training, Sariputta

News

13 December 2024

Preventive Education and Training Division of National Dangerous Drugs Control Board collaborate with Collage of Teacher Training – Sariputta has Conducted three one day training programs on 09th ,10th and 11th of December 2024 at...

Teacher Training Program Series - Collage of Teacher Training, Sariputta

News

13 December 2024