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An international team made up of Mentor staff and Scientific Advisory Network members presented five projects in the NIDA International Poster Session at the Society for Prevention Research's 18th Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado on June 1st 2010.
The posters featured Mentor's work in the USA on Drugs and the Developing Brain, the Mentor International Prevention Award Winning Peer to Peer Prevention Project from Uganda, Prevention-Smart Parents, the Unplugged programme that Mentor is overseeing the adaptation of to 5 countires in Central and Eastern Europe and Mentor Colombia's Experiences to Live and Co-exist programme.
Posters and Handouts are available to download:
• Experiences to Live and Co-exist A school based drug prevention strategy based in competences development for children aged 5 to 12. Jorge Mc Douall Lombana, M.D, Psychiatrist, M.H.P, Executive Director, Mentor Colombia (handout).
• Peer to Peer Drug Abuse Prevention Program Good practices for drug/alcohol abuse prevention among young people in Kampala Uganda. Rogers Kasirye, M.A., (handout).
• Prevention-Smart ParentsOn-line learning aid for parents and caregivers from Mentor International. Jeff Lee, M.Ed., Executive Director, Mentor International (handout).
• The Developing Brain, Adolescence and
Vulnerability to Drug Abuse A school based drug prevention strategy based in competences development for children aged 5 to 12. Ken C. Winters, Ph.D., Scientific Advisor, Mentor International; Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota (handout).
• Prevention by social influence Proven effectiveness of universal prevention - Mentor's adaptation, pilot and evaluation of the previously tested Unplugged program in Croatia, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Romania and Russia. Peer van der Kreeft, Lecturer drug issues and prevention, Faculty of Social Work and Welfare Studies at the University College Ghent, Head of prevention, De Sleutel, Belgium (handout).
Update: More coverage of the session, including Mentor's contribution can be found at Prevention Action.
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