Project “To prevent ourselves from drugs and violence” - Pleven

Leading organization: Foreign languages school - Pleven
Period of implementation: 15.09 – 25.12.2007
Source of funding:
Ministry of education and science, National program “The school - territory of the students”, module “Development of the extracurricular activity”
Partners: Association “Training and Services Center”
Main aim: Forming in the juvenile students skills and habits to identify and overcome the pressure and the declension to use drugs, the negative factors and the acts of violence in the school area.
Concrete outputs:
- Participants improved their knowledge about the drug substances and the harms from them, the reasons for the abuse and identifying the drug using people;
- The participants must exam their own attitudes regarding the drug using, regarding their school mates using alcohol, psychoactive and drug substances;
- The children and the juveniles increasing their self-evaluation and gaining different models of self-approval and health responsible behavior, skills to say “no” and also to solve problems;
- The children and the juveniles forming of positive behavior towards their future and skills to structure their own worldly aims.
Results:
- 2 multi-discipline teams , 5-members each in support of the pedagogic practice were formed;
- 10 groups consisting 100 children passed the program;
- According to the indicators the program had full success.