A Participatory Handbook for Youth Drug Abuse Prevention Programmes - A Guide for Development and Improvement

A Participatory Handbook for Youth Drug Abuse Prevention Programmes is mainly the result of a participatory process involving more than 33 youth drug abuse prevention programmes from across the globe. Most of the information presented in this handbook draws on the real-life experiences of youth and adults involved in these programmes. This handbook has three aims, first to help a carefully selected target group; second, having identified the target group, to find out the real issues that concern them by asking them what these are and, three, to then help the target group find solutions to theses problems. The main purpose of this handbook, then, is to provide tools for both young people and adults who want to establish drug prevention programmes with the participation and active involvement of youth and the community. This handbook will also be useful to those who are already involved in existing youth drug prevention programmes and who are interested in assessing and improving their established programme.