Project “To prevent ourselves from drugs and violence” - Pleven
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Project “To prevent ourselves from drugs and violence” -
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.
NEWS
Training of teachers on program for prevention of the drug and alcohol abuse
In the end of the last year a training of group of teachers from High school of foreign languages -
The aim of the training was to prepare the participants to work as a future trainers on program “To prevent ourselves from the drugs and the violence”- enriching the knowledge of the teachers about the drugs subsistence, the reasons for drug and alcohol abuse among the children as well as the harms from such behavior, acquaintance with different approaches of teaching, studying of teachers’ own attitude concerning the drug misuse and also their motivation for participation as trainers in the program.
The essential part from the program repeated the themes on which the guidance for carrying out of the program with students was organized including five main themes: “Attention - drugs!”; “Why the children use / don’t use drugs - factors and premises”; “Assertive behavior - self-confidence, stress and guilt”; “Decision making and solving of problems”; “Approaches and methods of training”.
The participants shared that the problem of drug misuse in
In the end of the training a schedule for carrying out of the current supervisions aiming professional support of the trainers was negotiated and jointly prepared. The program is implemented in the frames of project “To prevent ourselves from the drugs and the violence” on National program “The school - territory of the students”, module “Development of the extracurricular activity”. Project partner of the High school of foreign languages in