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Planet Youth Workshop

6 March 2019

Reykjavik

Iceland

The Icelandic Centre for Social Research and Analysis (ICSRA) is running a three-day workshop from the 6th until the 8th of March 2019 to give an overview of the Icelandic Prevention Model. ICSRA, an organisation renowned for its innovative research expertise within the field of prevention, developed the programme Planet Youth in order to prevent children and adolescents from the initiation of drug use.

A Step‑Wise Community Engagement and Capacity Building Model Prior to Implementation of mhGAP‑IG in a Low and Middle‑Income Country

Scientific article

15 October 2018

Abstract Background The World Health Organization developed the Mental Health Gap Action Programme Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG) as guidelines for innovative utilization of available resources in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in...

PROSPER Community-University Partnership Delivery System Effects on Substance Misuse

Scientific article

10 January 2013

Evaluated prevention programmes are typically implemented by research teams, raising questions over real-world applicability, but a groundbreaking US trial is said to have produced a ‘robust’ demonstration of the potential of a system in...

Equipping Community Pharmacy Workers as Agents for Health Behaviour Change

Scientific article

1 August 2017

Abstract Objective: To develop a complex intervention for community pharmacy staff to promote uptake of smoking cessation services and to increase quit rates. Design: Following the Medical Research Council framework, we used a mixed-methods...

Community Convening Guide: Substance Use Prevention, Screening, and Early Intervention

Book

13 June 2017

A key objective of Facing Addiction’s Action Agenda is to spread the awareness and adoption of youth prevention activities in your communities, examples of which include evidence-based prevention programming highlighted in the 2016 U.S...

Returning from Rehab: What Are The Challenges of Re-Integration?

Scientific article

4 January 2017

Residential ‘in-patient’ treatment for substance abuse – more commonly known as ‘rehab’ - is the favoured option among those wanting to recover from addiction. The rate of relapse within the first year following being discharged, however...

Recovery in the Community Conference

9 November 2016

Sheffield

United Kingdom

The Recovery in the Community Conference is looking at what happens beyond