Each participating school has established a School Action Team which has undertaken an analysis of drug education and related issues within their school. Data collected has informed a process of Strategic and Action Plan development. Identified action is currently being implemented by each school throughout 2006.

Project Aims

• Increase schools capacity to support outcomes of West’s Youth Drug Forum held in 2004 and subsequent forums
• Provide further significant opportunities for young people who attended the 2004 Youth Drug Forum to apply their drug prevention skills at a school level.
• Development of group facilitation and management skills
• Identification of drug related issues and strategies by young people in their school community.
• Development of partnerships between schools
• Establishment of peer drug education networks
• Stakeholders identification in determining issues, strategies and desired outcomes, as well as identifying the extent to which the school is ready for change
• Establishment of a whole of school Advisory Group (this is optional)
• Initiation of sustainable action at the school level.
• Increase in knowledge and understanding of drug issues by young people, parents, teaching staff of youth alcohol and other drug related issues.
• Increase in skill level to deliver school based preventative drug education

Project Report
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