ZORA DEŠIĆ,
MIN ISTRY OF ED U CATION, SCIEN CE
AND TECHNOLOGICAL
DEVELOPMENT
LIONS QUEST - SKILLS FOR ADOLESCENCE
IMPLEMENTED WITH:
UNODC Drug Prevention and
Health Branch
Prevention, Treatment and
Rehabilitation Section
and
UNODC Regional Programme
for South East Europe
- Focused on teaching social and emotional
competencies, especially targeting risk
factors and drug use prevention
- Targets 6th thru 9th grade students
- Universal curriculum – 40 sessions
- Rigorously evaluated thru standard
Monitoring & Evaluation component
TRAINING
- After selection of schools and
educators, we started training:
- 5 training cycles
- Aug to Oct 2015
- 15 educators per training
- Total of 75 educators trained
- Educators were selected
among teachers and school
counsels from selected
schools
IMPLEMENTATION
 School sessions
 Implementation period
Sep 2014 to Jun 2015
40 session implementation modality
- Initially implemented in 21 schools in Belgrade
- 4 schools were dropped due to no or very low
test results (post test response rate was below 20%)
- 17 schools were retained (response rate was 92.3%)
MONITORING AND EVALUATION
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Follow up sessions
Educator weekly reports
Pre/post test
Evaluation
Cultural adaptation
material
PRE-TEST/POST-TEST RESULTS
Significant improvement in refusal skills of students
Change in perception of harm - significant improvement in perception of harm
of alcohol
Certain change in intention to use – No statistically significant changes were
found regarding the intention to use any of the three substances. However,
the majority of students were resolute not to use any of the three
substances pre-and post-test.
Minor change in normative belief – There was no significant change pre-and
post-test (but there was a tendency of positive change in this normative
belief among girls only, for all substances).
BACKGROUND
Programme implementation was facilitated by:
- Reputation developed by UNODC organization
- Good experiences with implementation of programme “Strengthening Family 10-14”,
- Programme relates to our educational needs
- Programme covers sensitive population/age
BACKGROUND
Legal basis for programme implementation exists because:
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Prevention of drug use is a part of regular elementary school curriculum in Nature
and Society, Biology, Chemistry and in extracurricular activities.
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Prevention of drug abuse is already part of school prevention programmes
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MoE also performs accreditation of programmes for drug prevention for in-service
training for teachers
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Teachers have a legal obligation to attend professional development programmes
(minimum 100 hours over 5 years) and also to apply lessons learned
FOLLOW UP
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Extend programme to other schools and cities
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Continue cooperation with local communities (they are legally
required to support professional development and ensure safety
of students)
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Ensure better promotion of programme by:
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Making programmes “SF 10-14” and Lions Quest “Skills for
Adolescence” a part of national drug prevention action plan
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Including both programmes in official database of drug
prevention programmes maintained by health department
IT IS EASIER WITH SUPPORT