Drug & Alcohol Prevention

Hey all you people interested in what the City's doing about preventing harm from drug / alcohol / substance use!

The Youth Outreach Team and the Drug Policy Program are collaborating once again to work on the youth component of the Prevention Strategy for Vancouver. Our efforts are focused on getting youth input on the draft plan called "Preventing Harm from Psychoactive Substance Use". To simplify that process, we condensed the plan into the Short & Sweet Version, created to be youth-friendly, and really, people-friendly. In addition, we are working on developing a youth prevention strategy for the Vancouver community, highlighting effective ways of involving youth in policy development while creating change on a community level.

To download the colour version of the Short and Sweet report, click here (2.2MB).

To download the B&W version of the report, click here. (1.8MB).

Note: In order to download these documents you will require Adobe Reader which can be downloaded for free from www.adobe.com.

Both these documents are also available on the City of Vancouver's Four Pillars Drug Strategy section, in Media Room under June 2005. There's also a black & white version on there to print out.

To give feedback to the Drug Policy team on the Prevention report, fill out the Draft Report Questionnaire in the Four Pillars section of City of Vancouver's website.