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How to deliver an integrated media training workshop for TV, Radio and Newspaper participants on reporting about drugs

This is a manual to help trainers to plan, conduct and evaluate a workshop to train journalists and reporters on effective drug demand reduction and HIV/AIDS prevention reporting. This manual was developed on the basis of a manual first piloted in Viet Nam (project VIEH05 Comprehensive Drug Prevention Activities In Viet Nam) and workshops based on this manual have already been successfully implemented with journalists in Malaysia and in the Central Asian Republics. UNODC is formatting the manual for easy .html access, but, in the meantime, a working draft is available on demand to interested stakeholders.

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Drugs? Ask the experts!

Have you ever wondered why cannabis is more dangerous for you than cigarettes? Whether you can become addicted to ecstasy or overdose on cocaine? Or what makes heroin such a dangerous drug? These questions and more are answered in the series Drugs? Ask the experts. UNODC has teamed up with a group of international teenagers to put their questions to the experts. In this series of interviews we put cannabis, ecstasy, cocaine and heroin under the spotlight. And talk frankly about the production, trafficking, and damaging effects of these illegal drugs.

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United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific - ESCAP

Life Skills Training Guide for Young People: HIV/AIDS and Substance Use Prevention

This is a guide to train peer educators working with youth for the prevention of HIV/AIDS and substance use.

Cover, preface, acknowledgement, table of contents and introduction to training and learning (PDF-122KB)
Module 1 - Peer education (PDF-86KB)
Module 2 - Communication (PDF-96KB)
Module 3 - Basics of growing up ? Understanding adolescence (PDF-104KB)
Module 4 - Teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS (PDF-115KB)
Module 5 - Basics of HIV/AIDS (PDF-163KB)
Module 6 - Drugs and substance use (PDF-155KB)
Module 7 - Life skills (PDF-64KB)
Module 8 - Learning and practising core life skills (PDF-244KB)
Module 9 - People living with HIV/AIDS (PDF-119KB)
Module 10 - Action planning (PDF-81KB)
Annex - Training needs assessment (PDF-59KB)
References (PDF-12KB)

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United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Family Health International (FHI)

The Training of Trainers Manual

This is a manual to prepare peer educators that are both able to train other educators and serve as informed resources for their peers. The manual is the result of a collaboraton between the UNFPA and FHI, and is therefore mostly focused on the issues of sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS prevention. However, the participatory techniques to strenghten the skills of peer educators as educators and trainers can be of relevance and inspiration in the context of other issues, such as substance abuse prevention. 

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World Health Organisation (WHO)

Young people and substance use: a manual
Create, use and evaluate educational materials and activities

This is a manual on how to develop health education activities that are appropriate to the needs, values and culture of the target population by involving young people in their design, utilization, dissemination and evaluation. The entire file is very large (6,700KB), you can download it here or you can download smaller sections that are of interest to you.

Cover, table of contents, introduction (PDF-500KB)
Chapter 1 - Introduction (PDF-300KB)
Chapter 2 - Working in a group with young people (PDF-600KB)
Chapter 3 - Creative workshop basics (PDF-600KB)
Chapter 4 - Designing materials and activities and
Chapter 5 - Producing materials and activities (Introduction) (PDF-300KB)
Chapter 5 - Producing materials and activities (Printed materials) (PDF-600KB)
Chapter 5 - Producing materials and activities (Audiovisual materials and dramatic productions) (PDF-700KB)
Chapter 5 - Producing materials and activities (Dramatic productions and drawing and painting) (PDF-700KB)
Chapter 5 - Producing materials and activities (Music, street TV, cartoons, radio, games) (PDF-600KB)
Chapter 6 - Testing materials and activities (PDF-200KB)
Chapter 7 - Monitoring and evaluating materials and activities (PDF-600KB)
Chapter 8 - Disseminating materials and activities,
Chapter 9 - Mobilizing resources, Chapter 10 - Bibliography and further reading (PDF-300KB)
Annex 1 - What did you think of this manual? and Annex 2 - Focus group method
Annex 3 - Glossary

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Office of National Drug Control Policy - ONDCP (U.S.A)

The Message Maker

The Message Maker allows users to create stickers, magnets, and more celebrating the activities that stand between them and drugs.

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UNODC Regional Office for Eastern Africa

Drug Counsellor's Handbook A Practical Guide for Everday Use

This is a Handbook to help work effectively as a drug counsellor. As a practical guide for everyday use, it combines internationally accepted standard practices with a distinctly African Perspective
English (PDF-3,370KB)

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