1. Professionals

Targeted professionals will include those involved with drug prevention, such as:
· Teachers and other educators (such as Youth Leaders, Church Leaders, Volunteers)
· Social Workers
· Doctors and other health workers
· Social Service providers
· the Police and other personnel such as janitors.
Professionals who are in contact with young people under the age of 18 will be targeted in this programme.

2. Parents and families

Research shows that parents and families play a key role in drug prevention. Yet they need support to do so. Hence it is important to increase support for parents and families; helping them to develop their skills and capacities to engage in active and successful drug prevention efforts with their children.

Whilst drug prevention in schools and other youth contexts has been developed, there is little work on the family. In the target countries, traditional family support systems and mechanisms of family self-reliance can be strong, but have seldom been used to promote drug prevention. They are under strain because of the current difficult socio-economic situation, and therefore in greater need of support to enable them to take on a drug prevention role. This programme will seek to offer such support.

3. Youth organisations

There is a potentially important role for youth organisations and youth workers in drug prevention. In particular, young people learn a lot from one another: peer groups play an important part in defining and maintaining an individual's identity. Learning from other young people (both in and out of school) can be an important form of drug prevention. But such 'peer education' needs facilitation. Thus, this programme will target those who work with young people, seeking to enable them to work more effectively with the young people with whom they are in contact, and empowering those young people to be effective agents in drug prevention.