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EDUCATIONAL
COMMUNITY
Prevalence studies conducted
with elementary school children prove that the starting
age of legal drug use is getting lower; the current age
is 9. Likewise, the consumption of legal and illegal drugs
among high school adolescents has also increased. A variety
of factors including personal, social, family or educational
aspects have contributed to this situation.
With regards to education,
the school must apply prevention policies to guarantee the
integral development of the students, offering drug abuse
prevention programs that can be transversely developed throughout
the curricula, the school year and the different grades.
The contents should refer to specific and unspecific factors
related to drug abuse. It is important that the teachers
be trained and have all the work materials required for
their job.
On the other hand, it is
necessary to involve parents or the nearest of kin, in the
school's prevention effort, to maximize the efficacy of
this endeavor. Families facing crises may become dysfunctional
or problematic, causing their members to become vulnerable
to drug abuse. But then again, the family is an agent of
change, and, thus, an indispensable intervention group.
The Program also expresses
the need to train of teachers and promoters in the application
of conceptual and preventive methodological tools to conduct
preventive programs and activities with the students, their
families and the community as a whole.
OBJECTIVES
GENERAL OBJECTIVE
Provide the members of the
educational community with conceptual and methodological
tools required to prevent risk behaviors in the schools.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
· Promote the implementation of drug-abuse prevention
programs in schools.
· Involve the educational community in prevention
programs.
· Train teachers to design and implement prevention
programs for students and parents.
· Design educational materials (handbooks, guides,
posters, videos, etc) for drug-abuse prevention in schools.
· Develop information activities with all agents
of the educational community.
BENEFICIARIES
This program is addressed to school children and adolescents,
education, health and social welfare professionals, family
members of schools and other organizations.
STRATEGIES
EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY COALITIONS
Strategic coalitions are
formed with institutions involved in education nationwide,
including regional governments, municipalities, the Ministry
of Education, and others. A strategy has been developed
to train trainers and other multiplying agents to guarantee
an extended and sustainable development of the programs
addressed to students and parents.
SCOPE
Nationwide
IMPACT
QUANTITATIVE
· 45,151 students
trained nationwide.
· 8,000 teachers from 2, 500 primary and secondary
schools trained nationwide.
· 13,000 family members trained.
QUALITATIVE
· Increased interest
of family members on prevention and family issues. Influence
on prevention policies and guidelines in the education authorities
(Educational Units [USES], the Ministry).
· Greater demand for drug prevention training courses
in schools.
· Implementation of drug-abuse prevention programs
throughout the school year.
· Greater demand for technical assistance to for
prevention programs in schools.
· Greater demand for complementary drug-related reinforcement
activities and their protection factors.
· Treatment of cases of experimental drug use in
schools; these cases are referred to the CEDRO Hotline Program
("Lugar de Escucha").
MATERIALES
· Prevention Handbook
for elementary education: "Miska Siembra Temprana II".
This is a primary prevention
handbook of an integral and educational nature designed
for children of grades 1st. through 6th, that promotes a
positive self-image and the development of life skills,
and teaches them to care for their health, allowing them
to develop as individuals and a healthy social coexistence.
· Prevention Handbook
for Schools
· Handbook for Natural Leaders
· Handbook for the Parents School
· Handbook of Social Skills
· Handbook to promote a Culture of Peace
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