HUNGARY

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. If you would like to get more information about the ASAP project in Hungary (the result, ASAP training etc.) please contact our partners in Hungary:

Hungary - Reitox National Focal Point, Hungary. Ministry of Human Capacities Contact details of the institution (department/unit)
Address (street, postal code): 1139 Teve u. 4-6.
City/town: Budapest
Telephone number: 36-1-443-5500
Email: bunmeg@orfk.police.hu
Website: www.police.hu
MAIN ROLES:
National Headquarters of the Hungarian Police Department of Crime Prevention is a public institution. The Hungarian Police works at 3 levels:
  • National
  • Regional (county, and Budapest) (20)
  • Local (152 1st level Police office)
The national and regional centres coordinate and lead on drug prevention, which is implemented by the local level.
THE SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES:
Activities belong to the field of drug-demand reduction
  • school based drug prevention programmes implemented by specifically trained policemen – programmes are called „DADA” & „ELLEN-SZER” developed for primary- and secondary schools
  • consultancy on school-based crime prevention
Police is also member of the local Coordination Forums on Drug Affairs representing both drug-demand and drug-supply reduction fields in the local drug policy. For some years it is forbidden to develop close cooperation between the Police and various civil organisations, like human rights defender, social support organisations.
THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:
  • Decision-making in drug prevention (Including development of policies)
  • Advisory role
  • Developing drug prevention programmes and/or policies
  • Implementing drug prevention, e.g. family- and school-based programmes
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The National Child Care Service provides child-, youth and family care by its highly trained, specialized nurses supporting healthy physical and mental development. It also implements health promotion and disease prevention initiatives both at community and school level, and specifically supports health education for mothers, children, youths and families. It supports culturally the quality of life. The Service also provides screening for a wider public (e.g. cancer screening for women).

The Association of Child Care Nurses is an NGO representing the child care nurses and their interests who are employed by the National Child Care Service. As an interest representative, it supports the professional development of the nurses, it provides legal advice and gives recommendations for the National Service on legal affairs.

THE SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES:

The Service

  • Child, youth and family care supporting healthy physical and mental development both at community and school level

The Association

  • It facilitates information sharing, ensures study visits, and supports methodological development and dissemination of new methods
  • It organises workshops, conferences, round tables, prepares health education publicity materials, provides counselling for the wider public
  • It supports:
    • • achieving the recognition of child care activity as a service at all levels in the society. It builds relations with different public bodies, other NGOs, professional organisations both nationally and internationally to achieve its aims and objectives
    • scientific work and development in the child care field
    • research projects
    • equity among men and women by information sharing about these issues
    • charitable work
    • the use of national child care service in all groups of the society
    • organisation of in service training events for child care nurses on drug prevention
    • publishing on drugs issues for training and education of nurses
    • publishing for the wider public, but mainly youths on drug prevention issues
  • It provides in service training courses
THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:
  • Advisory role
  • Contribution to the development of drug prevention programmes and/or policies (School based/community based prevention
  • Implementing drug prevention e.g. family- and school-based programmes
  • Providing training on substance use prevention

    • The National Service

    • The childcare nurses can also work in schools where they implement drug prevention programmes (this is mainly health education)
    • They can also provide counselling at community level on drugs issues, and they are also part of the early warning system.
    • Participating in the work of the Local Coordination Forums on drug affairs (both organizations) - contribution to the development and implementation of the local drug strategy
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Family and Child Protection Service (at municipality level)

Family and Child Protection Centres (at regional level)

Special primary child welfare care institutes regulated by the 1997/XXXI. Legal act on child protection (Safe Start Child Homes and special education centres “Tanoda”)

MAIN ROLES:

Information sharing, early warning system, referral, system, implementation of prevention initiatives.(1997./XXXI. Legal act)

Primary care at municipal level

  • Information sharing, education
  • Counselling on healthy lifestyle and risk behaviours, ensuring access to these services
  • Information sharing for pregnant women in crises situation, referral to other specialized institutes (e.g. Getting drug user pregnant women to gynecologist trained also in the field of addictions)
  • Help pregnant women in crises situation, in housing
  • Community-based leisure time prevention programmes for children and their families
  • Running workshops, groups for young people at risk (deviancies, drug use) (skill development)

Care at regional level

  • There is less preventive work at this level, rater early intervention.
  • The objective here is “correction”: measures taken by authorities, e.g. mandatory referral to other health and social services if necessary, (e.g. problematic drug use)
  • Legal protection
  • Screening, monitoring, information sharing, coordination between the children, families and practitioners at municipal level
  • Outreach work for youth on the street, in hospital wards e.g. maternity ward
  • 24 hours crisis telephone line
  • Counselling (psychosocial, legal), family therapy
  • Since 2018 new scope of work – there are social workers in schools and kindergartens with the aim to build and keep relationships with the schools, to strengthen early warning systems, and take a bigger part in drug prevention.
• Tasks: participation in drug prevention, strengthening cooperation between school staff (child care nurse, doctor, school psychologist, teachers, as well as the practitioners of the Social and Child Protection Institutes).
THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

Implementing drug prevention e.g. family- and school-based programmes

  • Community-based leisure activities as prevention initiatives for children and families (screening, activities, games etc)
  • Running workshops, groups for young people at risk (deviancies, drug use) (skill development)
THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

Other tasks: coordination between local organisations, member of the KEF (Coordination Forums on Drug Affairs)

  • Building relationship with various organisations/agencies of a municipality (social, educational, welfare, health, governing, administrative, law enforcement).
THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

Other tasks: protection of pregnant women at risk

  • information sharing
  • counselling on healthy lifestyle
  • information sharing with mothers/pregnant women in crisis
  • referral to specialized health and/or social care
  • providing help in housing for mothers in crisis situation
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The activities of these organisations can cover a small region (a town or a city) or also can cover a larger region e.g. a county, but they can also work nationwide.

  • The non-governmental, non-profit organisations have a fundamental role in the drug prevention field.
  • Traditionally drug prevention programmes are mostly owned, developed and run by these organisations.
    • • This central role and the related responsibilities have not been articulated by the government, but the opposite: the civic organisations articulated themselves according to the needs of the target population and to their perceptions of the drug problem
    • These organisations are close to the target group and are embedded into the local community;

    NGOs are responsible for:

    • Promoting the drug prevention work by emphasising and facilitating healthy, productive alternatives to using legal and illegal drugs
    • Developing effective partnerships with the educational- and social sector as well as with the local and national governments to increase the presence of drug prevention programmes and services for the target population
    • Developing drug prevention programmes (universal and/or selective and/or indicative)
    • Implementing drug prevention programmes for various target groups
    • Participating in the local coordination forums on drug affairs and being a consultant in local drug prevention policy and actions
    • Representing the civil society in a governmental body on drug coordination
    THE SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES:

    NGOs cooperate with: schools, local social institutions, municipalities, universities, other organisations dealing with drug users

    THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:
    • Coordinating drug prevention
    • Advisory role
    • Developing drug prevention programmes and/or policies
      • Drug prevention programmes are developed or adapted in Hungary in most cases by non-governmental organisations.
    • Implementing drug prevention e.g. family- and school-based programmes
      • Most of the drug prevention programmes and services in Hungary are implemented by non-governmental civil organisations.
    • Providing training on substance use prevention
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MAIN ROLES:
  • The task of the Commission on Interdepartmental Drug Coordination is to coordinate the work and strengthen the cooperation between governmental agencies whose work is connected to drug prevention.
  • The task of the Council of Drug Issues is to strengthen the cooperation between governmental agencies and civil organizations who work in the drug prevention field.
THE SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES:
  • The Commission on Interdepartmental Drug Coordination and the Council of Drug Issues has a proposer and advisory role towards the Minister who is responsible for drug prevention.
THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

Advisory role

Address (street, postal code): Kazinczy u. 23-27
City/town: Budapest
Telephone number: +36 1 461 4500
Eamil: dekani.hivatal@ppk.elte.hu
Website: https://www.ppk.elte.hu/
MAIN ROLES:
  • Training of the future generation of the DPP (psychologists and teachers)
  • Research in the field of drug use and
  • Providing accredited in-service training on drug prevention
  • R&D work as part of international projects
THE SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES:
  • Drug prevention science is part of the bachelor, master and doctoral training of students at the psychology and education field
  • Drug prevention science is thought in the framework of both compulsory and elective courses
  • Leading on and participating in research projects in relation to the drug prevention field (commissioned by the responsible ministry, or funded via grant schemes) (mainly evaluation research)
  • Being responsible for several epidemiological research, HBSC, National Data Collection on Addictive problems in the adult population, participation in the ESPAD study
  • Being responsible for smaller scale research activities related to NPS use
  • Involvement in research and intervention development related to behavioural addictions
  • Providing accredited in-service training (30 hours long) on drug prevention for professionals from the health and social fields
  • Participating in R&D European/international projects, e.g. EDPQS, ASAP Training
THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:
  • Advisory role

    The Faculty is having expertise related to policy issues and is ready to contribute to policy documents and to provide policy related advice if requested by the relevant ministerial bodies.

  • Developing drug prevention programmes and/or policies
  • Monitoring substance related problems in order to apply the results to improve drug prevention work
  • Monitoring drug prevention interventions or programmes
  • Conducting prevention research e.g. evaluation of drug prevention programmes, epidemiological studies in the general and student population

    • The Faculty is involved in quite a few research programmes aiming at getting a better understanding of the roots of substance use and behavioural addictions.

  • Providing training on substance use prevention

    • The Faculty is involved in providing in-service training courses for professionals active in the prevention field: teachers, social workers, health professionals.

    The Faculty provides compulsory courses for MA students on how to develop high quality prevention work. During these courses an adapted version of the EDPQS training course is utilised.

    The Faculty puts a great emphasis on behavioural addictions and a special service was developed for those who perceive their situation problematic due to gaming. Those who draw on in this service (indicated prevention) are provided with training and supervision.

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The Drug Coordination Forums on Drug Affairs (KEFs) and their drug prevention teams are linked to the local municipalities. They are public or self-governmental (municipal) organizations, working on local/regional levels. In Hungary the local drug related activities, including drug prevention (in towns, cities, counties, sub regions, regions) are coordinated by these bodies.

MAIN ROLES:
  • Their work supports the idea of “Community & co-operation, i.e. societies should become sensitive to th e efficient management of the drug issue and local communities should improve their problem-solving capabilities in countering the drug problem
  • The KEFs

• help to handle the drug problem within the local community where the problem itself occurs

• are the keys of the National Strategy, are the „engine” of the local drug policy, and help in putting the strategical concepts into practice

• coordinate, initiate work as a resource alliance at different administrative levels within the community

• work as a consulting body of professionals for the municipality

• in most cases have a drug prevention team coordinating local drug prevention activities

• members are: Local governments; Organizations, institutions run by the local governments related to different sectors (educational, health, social, youth), organizations, institutions working at the supply reduction field, NGOs, Churches, Media.

THE SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES:
  • Carry out local needs assessment
  • Develop the local drug policy, including the drug prevention pillar of the local drug strategy
  • Give advice to the municipalities on drug prevention issues:

• local needs on drug prevention,

• right drug prevention approach,

• potential service providers,

• available and potential drug prevention programmes/services,

• funding opportunities.

The local KEFs are also part of a network both nationally and regionally. In recent years Health Development Offices were established in the framework of projects funded from EU Structural Funds. These Health Development Offices (EFI) are having a bit similar roles to KEFs, but their professional profile is much less articulated and grounded. These bodies are supposed to meet the public health needs of local communities and they are supposed to provide services. These bodies are representing a wide public health oriented scope in their activities.
THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:
  • Coordinating drug prevention

    Local/regional KEFs are supposed to develop local/regional strategies related to substance use issues. These strategies are expected to reflect the national priorities and also the knowledge of local problems/needs. In the framework of local strategies it is expected that prevention related issues are addressed.

  • Advisory role

    • These bodies are supposed to be used by the local municipalities as principle advisors on drugs related issues.

  • Developing drug prevention programmes and/or policies
  • Monitoring substance related problems in order to apply the results to improve drug prevention
  • cMonitoring drug prevention interventions or programmes
  • Conducting prevention research e.g. evaluation of drug prevention programmes, epidemiological studies in the general and student population

    • Local KEFs are encouraged to initiate local research to assess the local/regional specificities of substance use problems. Within the framework of this type of research activity prevention related needs assessment is also an important activity. They are also supposed to do evaluation research but this type of activity is implemented scarcely partly because they lack the sufficient expertise or the necessary financial resources.

  • Providing training on substance use prevention
Address (street, postal code): Akadémia u. 3
City/town: Budapest
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The National Drug Coordination is a national governmental organization. It is the part of the Department of Mental Health Issues, Ministry of Human Resources.

MAIN ROLES:
  • In Hungary the National Drug Coordination Unit is responsible for drug policy making, including drug prevention policy. Present policy making processes are based on the priorities of National Drug Strategy which highlight the importance of drug prevention; one of the four pillars of the Strategy is prevention and health promotion.
  • The task of this unit is to:

    • • offer financial and methodological support to the drug prevention programmes which are usually embedded in the framework of health promotion

    • specify quality standards and ensure monitoring of prevention programmes based on the principles of international practice (e.g. based on EMCDDA’s guidelines)

    • strengthen cooperation between institutions which have important role in drug prevention

THE SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES:

The National Drug Coordination Unit coordinates the work on both drug demand and supply reduction within the drugs field.

  • carry out national needs assessment
  • develop national drug policy, including the drug prevention pillar of the drug strategy
  • offer financial and methodological support
  • ensure quality standards and monitoring
THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:
  • Coordinating drug prevention
  • Decision-making in drug prevention (Including development of policies)
  • Advisory role
  • Funding drug and alcohol prevention
  • 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
THE SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES:

The Specialized Pedagogical Services among others are responsible for school psychology. The school psychologists provide help and support for the educational institutions’ (primary & secondary schools) staff and children, and parents in drug prevention:

  • Conflict resolution
  • Aggression prevention
  • Mental health promotion
  • Family support
  • Counselling
THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:
  • Advisory role
  • Implementing drug prevention e.g. family- and school-based programmes
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