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| The A.D.V. Project : Preventing the Use of Alcohol, Drugs and Violence among Teens |
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The ADV Project is an experimental project designed to prevent the use of alcohol, drugs and violence among children and adolescents. The project leader is the Ministry of Education’s Youth and Social Affairs Administration in partnership with the Ministry’s Psychological Counseling Service, the Israel Police’s Youth Department, The Anti-Drugs Authority, the Local Government Center and Metzilah (the Ministry of Public Security’s Community & Crime Prevention Division).
The ‘pilot’ project began in the 2002-03 school year in ten LGA’s around the country (Hatzor Haglilit, Kiryat Ha’im, Kfar Kara, Yehud, Rehovot, Ariel, Tel Aviv, Ma’aleh Adumim, Be’er Sheva and Eilat). In each town the first two steps were to compile a ‘map’ of the town’s current efforts to prevent the use of alcohol, drugs and violence and to measure the PCS Index for the schools participating in the project. The PCS Index is the Psychological Counseling Service’s index for the extent of alcohol, drugs and violence use in a given population of adolescents. A third preliminary step was to ask the project target population in each community to fill out a questionnaire surveying their own use of alcohol, drugs and violence after school hours, and their attitudes towards this use, by themselves and others. From then on, at 12-month intervals, the same questionnaire was used to again survey the target population and so measure the extent to which the project’s goals were being achieved. These three steps set the base line for measuring project success.
The main target populations for the project are children and adolescents, with special attention paid to high-risk population groups. The LGA programs to prevent the use of alcohol, drugs and violence take a broad social perspective: their target is children and adolescents ‘from morning to evening’, in both formal and informal settings. Representative public figures and local business interests are also recruited to the projects in order to give them a higher public profile.
The key features of the national project design are:
- To support social-communal activities and initiatives whose planning and implementation are both interdisciplinary and inter-agency;
- The recruitment, training and deployment, at both planning and implementation stages, of a wide range of volunteers, activists and community figures, e.g. school staff and school activists (principals, subject coordinators, form teachers, counselors, psychologists, parent activists, leadership figures among the students themselves, etc.).
Each LGA project outline is submitted to the national ADV Committee together with the LGA’s commitment to maintain the project for at least three years and to invest in it at least NIS 50,000 annually to match the Ministry of Education’s investment of NIS 100,000.
How the A.D.V. Project Operates
- National ADV Committee: The National Committee comprises representatives of the national agencies participating in the project. Its job is to lay down the operational guidelines for LGAs to follow in designing their local project, to monitor the implementation of the local projects, and to approve their budget.
- Local ADV Steering Committees: Each LGA sets up a Steering Committee headed by the head of the LGA or his appointee. Inspectors from the Ministry of Education’s Youth and Social Affairs Administration act as committee conveners, as well as assisting the LGA head and the Steering Committee chairman with ongoing support and advice.
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