YAD Youth Against Drugs

“Value Life-Boycott Drugs” YAD is a Finnish non-profit civil association that started out in 1988 as a small civil movement of young people aiming to influence and prevent drug abuse. From the beginning young volunteers have been the base of the organisation. YAD practises peer group work by the means of drug-education and giving example of drug free lifestyle, providing reliable information and simply being around and interacting with young people in different environments.YAD is also about helping out and providing support to those who want to quit taking drugs. Our work: - Voluntery based substance abuse prevention with young people (peer to peer) - Online based youthwork called YAD Street Team - Training recovering drug addicts to do drug education based on expertise by experience - Harm reduction -providing information about drugs and addictions - drugfree activities and choices - Lessons and courses for proffessionals who are working with young people - Lessons for nurse/youth work/social work students -Raising awareness and illiminating shame and discrimination surrounding substance abuse We are looking for partners for networking, for changing good practices and learning about new innovations in substance abuse prevention, harm reduction and training people for expertise by ecperience. Organization website (in finnish): www.yad.fi