Germany
Drug Prevention Stakeholder Map
In the framework of the project “Building effective drug prevention results across Europe based on prevention systems analysis and widespread professional training – ASAP training” had been identified the key stakeholders in drug prevention in the different EU Member States. More information about the ASAP you will find on the project webpage: http://asap-training.eu. If you would like to know more about the institution, please, click on its name.
FEDERAL CENTRE FOR HEALTH EDUCATION (BZGA)
- Address: Maarweg 149-161, Germany
- City/town: D-50825 Cologne
- Website: https://www.bzga.de/
- Email: poststelle@bzga.de
THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:
- Elaboration of principles and guidelines relating to the content and methods of practical health education
- Vocational training and continuing education of persons working in the field of health education
- Coordination and intensification of health education in Germany
- International collaboration
Prevention of subtance abuse, Addiction prevention are (Department 1, Topic and Target Group-Specific Health Education: Unit 1-13, Prevention of substance abuse, addiction prevention
The main:
- 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)
- iConducting 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
- contribution to the development and implementation of national action plans and programmes, e.g. for drug and addiction prevention (focusing on tobacco and alcohol prevention)
- performance of statutory tasks
- performance of national joint tasks with a population-wide impact that are necessary for implementing the key fields of education (evaluation and quality assurance, coordination and cooperation)
OTHER INFORMATION:
principal elements of BZgA are currently as follows:
