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MAIN ROLES:

Coordinate and financing of drug prevention activities

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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

The city is legally obliged to carry out tasks in the field of counteracting drug addiction

• Decision-making in drug prevention (Including development of policies)
• Funding drug and alcohol prevention

The city is legally obliged to finance tasks in the field of counteracting drug addiction

• Monitoring substance related problems in order to apply the results to improve drug prevention

The city is legally obliged to monitor the implementation of tasks in the field of counteracting drug addiction.

• Providing training on substance use prevention

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MAIN ROLES:

Its main task is to coordinate and funding drug prevention activities

It main activity is cooperation with NGO's in the field of counteracting drug addiction

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THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Decision-making in drug prevention (Including development of policies)
• Funding drug and alcohol prevention
• Developing drug prevention programmes and/or policies
• Implementing drug prevention e.g. family- and school-based programmes

MAIN ROLES:

The tasks of Department for Education and Prevention (WWP) are the following:

• Supporting teacher training centres, psychological and pedagogical counselling centres as well as pedagogical libraries in line with the state education policy and changes introduced into the education system in the field of promoting health, education and prevention
• Supporting teacher training centres, psychological and pedagogical counselling centres, pedagogical libraries as well as teachers-methodological advisors in organizing and conducting support actions for schools and educational units in the field of promoting health, education and prevention
• Supporting teacher training centres, psychological and pedagogical counselling centres, pedagogical libraries as well as teachers-methodological advisors in organizing and maintaining collaboration and self-education networks for teachers, educators, specialists and heads of schools and educational units in the field of promoting health, education and prevention
• Supporting schools and educational units in implementing their tasks in the field of in the field of promoting health, education and prevention, including:

-Providing training on substance use preventionDevelopment and publication of awareness and methodological materials

-Preparation of national programmes to support school and educational units as well as taking action to implement thereof

• Implementing tasks specified in government strategies for the promotion of health, education and prevention
• Initiating and disseminating new solutions in education and prevention
• Disseminating quality standards for prevention and education targeted on school-based children and adolescents
• Cooperation with national, European and international organizations concerned with education and prevention

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THE SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES:

Conducting training courses for education system personnel in evidence-based substance prevention, disseminating and training trainers in the Unplugged prevention programme and School-based preventive intervention.

Developing and disseminating educational materials on substance prevention.

The institution cooperates with National Bureau for Drug Prevention, Psychiatry and Neurology Institute.

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THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Decision-making in drug prevention (Including development of policies)
• 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

MAIN ROLES:

It provides evidences on what works on prevention, supports systematic changes in prevention system in Poland, conducts research that inform prevention, provide traningsfor specialists in prevention.

THE SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES:

Conducts research and expertise for all stakeholders in substance use prevention.

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THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Decision-making in drug prevention (Including development of policies)
• Advisory role
• Developing drug prevention programmes and/or policies (e.g. Program Domowych Detektywów)
• Monitoring substance related problems in order to apply the results to improve drug prevention (e.g. a survey conducted every 4 years since 1984 to assess trends in substance use among school children)
• 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 (risk/ protective factors that inform prevention programming))
• Implementing drug prevention e.g. family- and school-based programmes
• Providing training on substance use prevention

MAIN ROLES:

Department of Upbringing and Integrated Education of the Ministry of National Education is concerned with drug prevention among children and adolescents. The department is responsible for preparing and implementing legal regulations on drug prevention in schools and education system units. It provides conditions for training teachers in drug prevention, including providers of recommended prevention programmes listed in the Recommendation System. They are programmes which have been successfully evaluated in terms of their effectiveness.

Department monitors the implementation of drug prevention programmes in schools and education system units through an online questionnaire. The Department cooperates with such ministries as Ministry of Health, including its agency - the National Bureau for Drug Prevention, Chief Sanitary Inspectorate, Police. It designs recommendations for schools on how to cooperate with other institutions in order to implement evidence-based and coherent drug prevention policy among children and adolescents at local level.

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THE SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES:

• promulgating regulation on the scope and form of upbringing, educational, informational and preventive activity in schools and education system units in order to prevent drug addiction;
• incorporating in other acts of educational the aspects of drug prevention e.g. in regulations on the principles of organization and provision of psychological and pedagogical assistance in education system units, including psychological and pedagogical counselling centres;
• amending the law which falls within the jurisdiction of other ministries thus enabling implementing coherent drug prevention policy at local government level including the needs of schools as well as raising effectiveness of actions aimed at education system units;
• preparing drug prevention guidelines to be implemented in schools and education system units based on the collaboration of the head teacher with the police and county sanitary inspectors;
• developing the teacher training system in collaboration the Centre for Education Development (ORE, which is a central teacher training institution and improves teacher competences in the field of drug prevention and trains them to be providers of recommended evidence-based drug prevention programmes;
• implementing the system of support for schools and education system units through developing and disseminating, e.g. through websites such as www.ore.edu.pl www.bezpiecznaszkola.pl, awareness and educational materials on drug addiction and drug prevention for parents and teachers. A great deal of materials are also disseminated through school superintendents’ offices;
• monitoring actions taken by schools through online survey, which is part of the reporting and educational system;
• having meetings e.g. with the Parliamentary Committee on addictions in order to keep raising the effectiveness of drug prevention.

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THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• 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

The unit includes one department which is concerned with drug prevention: Addiction Prevention Department

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MAIN ROLES:

Regional Centre for Social Policy is responsible for developing and implementation of Provincial Drug Prevention Strategy in lodzkie province. The activities in the field of prevention (in lodzkie province) are the following:

- youth camps for students of secondary schools from lodzkie province (workshops on prevention of risky behaviours);

- Information and Consultation Points at the University of Lodz, Medical University and Technical University for students (counselling covers identification of the problem, diagnosis, support, information on the forms of therapy and motivation for entering it);

- training courses for pedagogues, psychologists and form teachers in primary and secondary schools of lodzkie province;

- training courses for police officers, court-appointed family guardians and staff at Special School and Education Centres in the scope of intervention towards binge-drinking or drug-experimenting students;

Prevention is also implemented through non-governmental organizations within the financial resources allocated by the Government of Lodzkie Province under open calls for tenders.

- lectures for parents and pedagogues on early identification of substance addictions;

- workshops on parenting skills for parents and educators;

- increasing availability and effectiveness of interventions towards problem drug users, co-dependents and individuals at risk of addiction, including individuals in a critical and traumatic situation through:

- training in critical intervention for the Interdisciplinary Team;

- workshops and meetings during lessons and extracurricular activities for secondary school students, such actions also included education system staff, who were prepared to run the programme independently in their workplace;

- workshops for children and field games for youth with the use of innovative work methods,

- actions targeted on children and adolescents aged 10 - 18, inmates of Youth Socio-therapeutic and Education Centres from lodzkie province;

- promoting alternative forms of spending leisure time in order to develop passions and interests

- running activities for schools to make them ready to implement tasks imposed by the Regulation of the Minister of National Education of 18 August 2015 on the scope and form of educational, informational and preventive activities in schools and education system units in order to prevent drug addiction. In the course of this activity, training courses were provided for teaching staff, school counsellors, form teachers. There were also supervisions for teachers, family counselling, Fred Goes Net early intervention programme

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THE SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES:

Activities are implemented exclusively in lodzkie province and for residents of the province only

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THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• 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
• 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

MAIN ROLES:

The tasks of the State Agency for the Prevention of Alcohol-Related Problems under Ministry of Health are as follows:

• preparation of a draft National Strategy for Preventing and Solving Alcohol-Related Problems and a draft allocation of funds for its implementation
• providing expert opinions and preparing alcohol and alcohol-related bills and action plans
• providing information and education, preparing expert opinions, and developing and implementing new methods of prevention and solving alcohol-related problems
• providing technical advice to local authorities, institutions, associations and individuals who implement tasks related to the prevention and solving of alcohol-related problems
• cooperating with municipal and regional authorities in the area of prevention and solving of alcohol-related problems
• commissioning and financing tasks regarding the solving of alcohol-related problems
• cooperating with international organizations and institutions that operate in the field of solving of alcohol-related problems

Particularly, the actions of the State Agency for the Prevention of Alcohol-Related Problems in the scope of developing school, family and environmental prevention are as follows:

• providing expert opinions and disseminating modern prevention programmes for children and adolescents as well as methods of shaping attitudes towards healthy and sober lifestyle
• improving knowledge of teachers and educators in modern prevention strategies and work with adolescents, in particular through holding conferences, seminars and training courses, designing and distributing educational materials
• improving knowledge and skills of parents in family prevention, particularly through the counselling and support hotline for parents whose children drink alcohol and by providing educational materials
• raising competences of professionals working with drinking adolescents as well as disseminating interventions targeted on drinking adolescents
• taking action to limit access to alcohol for children and adolescents

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THE SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES:

• preparing analyses and strategies on alcohol prevention among children and adolescents
• running Recommendation System for Prevention and Mental Health Promotion Programmes
• conducting training courses
• disseminating evidence-based prevention programmes
• developing/consulting legal acts on alcohol prevention
• conducting/commissioning research into the prevalence of alcohol and other psychoactive substances use as well as alcohol-related harm

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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)

The University’s mission is to conduct scientific research and educating the public to the benefit of society and economy at undergraduate (1st degree), graduate (2nd degree) and postgraduate (3rd degree) level. The exclusive task of the Faculty of Caring Pedagogy and Social Prevention is conducting research and educating professionals to implement substance prevention. This task is determined by scientific interests and practical competences of the staff employed at the faculty. Disseminating the results of the scientific research is also an duty.

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MAIN ROLES:

• Conducting scientific research into risky behaviour in children and adolescents, risk and protective factors
• Developing, implementing and evaluating prevention programmes, especially in the area of selective and indicated prevention
• Educating students at the 1st and 2nd degree level to implement evidence-based prevention
• Cooperating with other local and national institutions in the field of broadly understood substance prevention in the capacity of experts, trainers, scientific researchers acting upon commission.

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THE SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES:

In the operational goal 3 of the National Health Programme: Prevention of mental health problems and improvement of mental well-being of society, in the list VII of tasks to implement it is stated as follows:

3. The remaining tasks to support the implementation of the operational goal:

1) […]

2) provision of scientific support for the purposes of the implementation of the National Health Programme through financing research into the prevalence and conditions for mental disorders in selected populations and including aspects of mental health in the priorities of the National Science Centre (NCN) (considering the existing system of competitions and division into panels) and National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR) (considering the existing structure of programmes) and following the opinion by the competent authorities of NCN and NCBR;

Implementing institution: Ministry of Science and Higher Education, National Science Centre, National Centre for Research and Development, Ministry of Helath.

Public universities are mandate to conduct research into vital social problems and educate professionals for diagnosing and solving thereof.

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THE ORGANIZATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Advisory role
• Conducting prevention research e.g. evaluation of drug prevention programmes, epidemiological studies in the general and student population

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MAIN ROLES:

• Aim of the institution at preventing the use of drugs and at reducing the adverse consequences of drug abuse
• Placing the development of treatment services into broader strategic and legal frameworks for drug control and demand reduction
• Recognition of the importance of setting measurable objectives and policy planning priorities
• Creating the key elements and guiding principles of a treatment policy
• Creating the need for multisectoral partnerships for the development and the effective delivery of treatment services
• Provide for and encourage active and coordinated participation of partners at the regional level, both generally and in situations of particular risk, by virtue of, for example, their regional location, economic conditions or relatively large addict populations
• Contribute to developing and sustaining supportive environments

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THE SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES:

Activities in demand prevention programs cover all areas of prevention, from discouraging initial use to reducing the negative health and social consequences of drug abuse. They embrace information, education, public awareness, early intervention, counselling, treatment, rehabilitation, relapse prevention, aftercare and social reintegration.

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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
• Providing training on substance use prevention