CGG Waas & Dender (Centre for Mental Health Care), team prevention tobacco, alcohol & other drugs.

There are 11 Centers for Mental Health Care with a prevention team in Flanders.

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MAIN ROLES:

• We implement prevention programs developed by VAD (the Flemisch centre of expertise on alcohol and other drugs) by:
• Conducting training to professionals/practitioners in multiple settings (school, workplace, recreational settings, criminal justice, local community, social work, health care…)
• Coaching organizations in developing a smoking, alcohol and drugs policy
• We support and coach the local drug prevention workers in our region to implement prevention methods and programs directly to the target population. We collaborate with them to assess the needs in our region. We support the local drug prevention workers in local meetings with stakeholders where we introduce prevention materials.
• We focus on legal (tobacco, alcohol medication) and illegal drugs; gaming and gambling

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THE SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES:

We focus on regional level. Together with the other Centers for Mental Health Care with a team prevention, we have a nationwide scope in Flanders.

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THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Coordinating drug prevention
• Advisory role
• Developing drug prevention programmes and/or policies
• Supervising the implementation of drug prevention (e.g. providing advice and guidance)
• Implementing drug prevention e.g. family- and school-based programmes
• Providing training on substance use prevention
• Other tasks: coaching organizations in developing a tobacco, alcohol & drug policy

HOWEST teaches at the bachelor degree of Applied Health and Lifestyle Sciences in the university of applied sciences, campus Bruges. The bachelor degree of applied health sciences tutors and coaches health/wellbeing promotion and substance misuse/addiction prevention professionals of the future. This new professional career/training is new (4 years) in Flanders. Students start their professional career with an internship as health promotor in enterprises, not for profit organizations, educational institutions, care and counseling organizations, leisure organizations (e.g. sports clubs/federations, scouting, etc), night time economy, etc.

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MAIN ROLES:

Education of future health promotion and prevention professionals, including prevention advisors as required by law for bigger enterprises.

Professional research and consult for work field partners: involvement in different types of projects in the broad domain of health and wellbeing promotion/ disease prevention.

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THE SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES:

Delivers professional training (bachelor degrees) and post graduate education for students in the Flemish community (as is for all higher education institutions in the Flemish region) on health promotion and disease prevention.

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THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Developing drug prevention programmes and/or policies
• Supervising the implementation of drug prevention (e.g. providing advice and guidance)
• Implementing drug prevention e.g. family- and school-based programmes
• Providing training on substance use prevention

De Sleutel is an institution embedded in a non-profit organisation of the Brothers of Charity. It is aimed at care, prevention, employment and research in the field of drugs and drug addiction problems and dependency. We help drug addicts to optimize self-realization and to reintegrate in our community. De Sleutel has several local departments each with their specific interventions (Antwerp, Bruges, Ghent, Eeklo, Mechelen). However, the prevention team works supra-regionally and covers the whole of Flanders, Brussels, Limburg.

The Prevention Team is financed by the government to train teachers in life skills (primary schools and nursery schools) and drug prevention in secondary schools.

De Sleutel has developed 3 methodologies:

• Hole in the hedge for Pre-school age (kindergarden) www.hetgatindehaag.be
• TOPspel for primary school (good behaviour game) www.hettopspel.be
• Unplugged for secondary school www.unplugged123.be

De Sleutel is being coordinated by the Flemish agency for care and health and works closely with VAD and Gezond Leven (partner organizations). We are an organization that connects as far as possible with our target audience (teachers) by giving workshops.

• The prevention projects mainly focus on training social skills from the infant class till the end of primary education. Social skills help build resistance to drug use.
• At the level of secondary education, we provide support for establishing and applying a policy of drug prevention.

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THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Implementing drug prevention e.g. family- and school-based programmes
• Providing training on substance use prevention

GIG (health promotion in Injecting Druguse – Gezondheidspromotie bij Injecterend Gebruik) combines the Flemish Needle exchange and HepC buddy project Antwerp. The GIG is part of ngo Free Clinic Antwerp.

MAIN ROLES:

Coordination of health promotion in Injecting druguse – Needle exchange in the Flemish part of Belgium

Coordinating the C-Buddy peer project (a hep C peer support system)

THE SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES:

Regional (Flemish) training in harm reduction, needle exchange, prevention of blood born viruses, prevention risk behavior in injecting druguse, overdoseprevention

Leaflets, posters, etc.

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THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Coordinating drug prevention
• Decision-making in drug prevention (Including development of policies)
• Advisory role
• Developing drug prevention programmes and/or policies
• Monitoring substance related problems in order to apply the results to improve drug prevention
• Monitoring drug prevention interventions or programmes
• Supervising the implementation of drug prevention (e.g. providing advice and guidance)
• Conducting prevention research e.g. evaluation of drug prevention programmes, epidemiological studies in the general and student population
• Providing training on substance use prevention

University – college Ghent. Departement of Social Work

MAIN ROLES:

Education of social workers who can be engaged as future prevention professionals.

Professional research and consult for work field partners: involvement in different types of projects in the broad domain of health and wellbeing promotion/prevention.

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THE SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES:

• Delivers bachelor’s degrees in social work (can work as future prevention workers)
• Coordination of the EU-Dap faculty: implementation and adaptation of the Unplugged school-based prevention program
• Coordinator of the UPC-adapt project (2016 – 2018)
• Service provider of Training in EB drug prevention programs on an international level, in cooperation with UNODC and other int’l organisations
• Service provider of Training in the EUPC, universal prevention curriculum, on int’l and national level

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THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Advisory role
• Developing drug prevention programmes and/or policies
• Monitoring drug prevention interventions or programmes
• Supervising the implementation of drug prevention (e.g. providing advice and guidance)
• Conducting prevention research e.g. evaluation of drug prevention programmes, epidemiological studies in the general and student population
• Implementing drug prevention e.g. family- and school-based programmes
• Providing training on substance use prevention
• Other tasks: coordination and participation in different drug prevention projects, in cooperation with European commission.

There are 15 Logo’s who do similar work :

Logo leieland, Logo Midden-West-Vlaanderen, Logo Gezond+, Logo Waasland, Logo Dender, Logo Antwerpen, Logo Kempen, Logo Mechelen, Logo Oost-brabant, Logo Zenneland, Logo Brussel, Logo Limburg (2)

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MAIN ROLES:

We are the local dispatchers of strategies, methods en materials who were developed by organisations at the regional level like the VAD. We inform and support local organisations to use these methods and materials. We coach them (Local government, schools, healthsector,…) to set up an health promoting and prevention police.

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THE SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES:

We inform and support local organisations to use these methods and materials. We coach them (Local government, schools, healthsector,…) to set up an health promoting and prevention police.

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THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Coordinating drug prevention
• Advisory role
• Supervising the implementation of drug prevention (e.g. providing advice and guidance)
• Implementing drug prevention e.g. family- and school-based programmes

MAIN ROLES:

• Advise on local drug prevention policy
• (Additional) funding of drug prevention activities
• Coordinate local drug prevention activities
• Stimulate the implementation of drug prevention activities

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THE SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES:

Drug prevention on local level

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THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Coordinating drug prevention
• Decision-making in drug prevention (Including development of policies)
• Advisory role
• Funding drug and alcohol prevention
• Developing drug prevention programmes and/or policies
• Monitoring substance related problems in order to apply the results to improve drug prevention
• Monitoring drug prevention interventions or programmes
• Supervising the implementation of drug prevention (e.g. providing advice and guidance)
• Implementing drug prevention e.g. family- and school-based programmes

There is one central institution active in the field of drugprevention; VAD that delivers expertise to 11 regional prevention centres in the Flamish region. Zorggroep Zin is one of these regional centres.

On the other hand you also have “Field” organisations like “De Sleutel” who develop interventions for certain settings like education.

In some cities and in some municipalities combined there’s also a local prevention service, sometimes in cooperation with the regional centres, sometimes operating independently.

For Brussels and the Wallonia there are other institutions active: Fedito BXL and Fedito Wallone.

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MAIN ROLES:

Zorggroep Zin delivers ambulatory drug counseling for people in Limburg. Besides the counseling service Zorggroep Zin also organizes a prevention service (14 coworkers) for the 42 municipalities combined in 8 first-line zones. Every first-line zone has dedicated prevention Expert. The 8 prevention Experts are supported by 5 colleagues. There is also one expert working in the project Safe ‘n Sound.

Every regional prevention expert coaches 4-7 municipalities in the local alcohol and drug prevention policy. They are also involved in the realization of the planned interventions regarding training, coaching, consult and low threshold information activities. The prevention experts also respond to local needs concerning alcohol and drug problems by addressing a suitable offer taking EB interventions in account. This offer can be an existing offer when there is one, or a new offer if non the existing suit the need formulated.

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THE SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES:

Drug counseling, online counseling, Drug prevention and streetcorenwork in Limburg Belgium.

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THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Coordinating drug prevention
• Decision-making in drug prevention (Including development of policies)
• Advisory role
• Funding drug and alcohol prevention
• Developing drug prevention programmes and/or policies
• Monitoring substance related problems in order to apply the results to improve drug prevention
• Monitoring drug prevention interventions or programmes
• Supervising the implementation of drug prevention (e.g. providing advice and guidance)
• Conducting prevention research e.g. evaluation of drug prevention programmes, epidemiological studies in the general and student population
• Implementing drug prevention e.g. family- and school-based programmes
• Providing training on substance use prevention
• Other tasks: Innovation in the field of drug prevention (projects: Mindyourtrip.eu - streetcorner nurse)