Youth and Adolescents

ISSUP Nigeria Knowledge Update Series (29th Session): Beyond Tokenistic Roles: Harnessing The Power of Young People in Drug Use Prevention

23 September 2025

Online

ISSUP Nigeria would like to invite you to the 29th session of its bi-monthly webinar in the Knowledge Update Series. This webinar will focus on the topic 'Beyond Tokenistic Roles: Harnessing The Power of Young People in Drug Use Prevention'.

Supporting children affected by the substance use of a parent or sibling

14 November 2025

Online

Delivered by a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, this two-day course explores the effects of substance use in the family on children, and how to support them. The course covers both direct support for children and young people, and how to support non-substance using parents or other adults to support children appropriately

Safeguarding the Demographic Bonus: BNN's Prevention Strategy for Children, Youth, and Communities

ISSUP Event

18 September 2025

Indonesia is currently in a demographic bonus period, where the majority of the population is of productive age. This window expected to peak by 2030 oKers a historic opportunity for national advancement. However, realizing this potential depends heavily on the capacity of the younger generation to stay healthy, productive, and free from the threat of drug abuse.

From Courtroom to Clinic: How Legal Rulings Shape Cannabis Use Among Adolescents and Young Adults in South Africans

ISSUP Event

17 September 2025

Substance use, including cannabis (known locally as marijuana/dagga) use, remains a major global public health concern. Cannabis use among adolescents is associated with significant harms associated with physical health, neurophysiological development, mental health, traffic injuries and violence.

Empowering Communities Across Borders: Adapting School and Family Based Prevention for Global Impact

ISSUP Event

17 September 2025

This presentation will explore how culturally adaptable, evidence-based prevention programs rooted in school and family setting can be scaled across borders to address substance use and mental health challenges in diverse, low resource communities.

Trauma in families affected by substance use

19 September 2025

Online

Join our training course equip practitioners to work more effectively with families affected by substance use where there is

Risk Behavior Among Slovak and Czech Adolescents Through the Lens of Self-Regulation, Prosociality, and Antisociality

Scientific article

3 November 2024

INTRODUCTION: In the present article, we focused on the relationship between risk behaviour in adolescents, self-regulation, pro-sociality and anti-sociality. We work under the assumption that the development of the ability to self-regulate...

Webinar reflection: Exploring Multiple Pathways of Recovery

Community update

27 June 2025

ISSUP, in collaboration with Faces & Voices of Recovery, has launched a new Global Recovery Network webinar series to spotlight diverse perspectives on recovery. The first webinar featured Dr. Haner Hernández, a respected expert in the...

Title slide for PowerPoint presentation titled Exploring Pathways of Recovery by Dr Haner Hernández.

AU Youth Forum Webinar on the Commemoration of the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

26 June 2025

Online

AU Youth Forum Webinar on the Commemoration of the International Day against

NIDA Summer Seminar Series (Part 2) – Improving Treatment and Recovery Services for Adolescents & Young Adults

9 July 2025

Online

Dr. Tisha Wiley from NIDA's Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research (DESPR) will be presenting on "Improving