Wholesome Living: Substance Abuse is Self Abuse Erasmus Project

Project Title

Wholesome Living: Substance Abuse is Self Abuse

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Over the last 2 years as a European Collective, we have actively been working to raise awareness of drugs and alcohol abuse across our partners both locally and nationally. We feel that we have been able to have really honest, opened and moving conversations with both young people and adults who work with young people to inspire change. We are really proud of the work that we have done over the last 24 months as a collective and have created a range of innovative outputs, all of which are a testament to our work and commitment to the project, much of which will be explained through this evaluation document.

We understand that substance misuse is still very much an issue for young people across Europe, but we feel proud to have contributed to the growing conversation and awareness work that is happening, in addition to mobilising both young people and adults who work with young people to equip themselves with both the skills, knowledge, and confidence to discuss these topics on a national and international scale.

We feel that we have been able to:

1. Raises awareness of the reasons why people use substances, the types of substances that are misused, and the factors that can influence the effects of substances.

2. Support both young people and adults who work with young people to study the harmful effects of substance misuse on individuals and society, as well as where to get support and advice on substance misuse.

3. Raise awareness of how stereotyping affects users and how media reporting affects people’s perceptions of substance misuse in addition to understanding statistics nationally and locally about substance misuse.

4. Encourage our team to consider the risk factors and protective factors for substance misuse, ways to protect individuals from the risks of substance misuse, and the barriers to making healthy choices.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 115199 Eur

Project Coordinator

Shine ALOUD UK C.I.C & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Dieythynsi Deyterobathmias Ekpaideysis N. Rodopis
• Zespol Szkol w Zychlinie
• Incirliova Genclik Kultur Sanat ve Gelisim Dernegi
• IPEOA Enrico Mattei
• HANTA ASSOCIATES LIMITED
• 8o GENIKO LYKEIO TRIKALON
• Colegiul de Servicii in Turism “Napoca”