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UNIVERSAL PREVENTIONUNIVERSAL PREVENTION

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Universal Prevention• Program description: A universal

program for school students, taught in a classroom. It has been designed to address a broad range of risk and protection factors and to teach general, personal, and social skills, together with normative education and the teaching of drug-resistance skills.

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Description of the Program's Logical

Model

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ACTIVITIES• Define the profile of the teacher• Train teacher to use the program's

materials• Awareness-building in the administrative,

community, and political spheres• Program implementation• Adaptation of the program to the

school’s curriculum

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ACTIVITIES• Develop and support a positive learning environment• Teach thinking and social skills• Promote community participation• Foster learning through service to others• Promote a drug-free approach to life• Develop and support positive peer groups• Celebrate and respect cultural diversity• Offer support to parents, teachers, and members of the

community

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Products Products

• Materials delivered and produced • Working sessions• Sponsorship for the institutes of education and schools

from organized civil society • Training for teachers• Awareness campaigns• Service campaigns • Videos • Services provided to students at school• Technical assistance• Evaluation and monitoring forms

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Target population • Children and teenagers

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Immediate Results

• Lower school drop-out rate • Less violent behavior• Disciplines • Integration into the school • Developed capacity• Awareness of their own skills

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Medium-term results• Strengthened values• Increased healthy decision-making

when faced by risk situations • Increased resilience• Increased healthy life-style practices

and decisions regarding drug use and abuse

• Delayed starting ages for the commencement of drug use

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Final results• Strengthening full citizenship• Reduced consumption levels• Prevention of drug abuse• Later commencement age

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Final Considerations • Products by Results • Limitations of the strategy, chiefly as regards

population coverage • Identifying key activities• Political intent translated into practical means • Paradigm shift • Learning social management • Guaranteed sustainability by incorporating the Program

into the schools' educational plans

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Thank you very much

Together, it’s possible.

Blue Team