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Working together to make Europe a safer place
Initiating European action on youth, risk behaviour and injury prevention
AdRisk International Workshop on media and tool development
Vienna 7, 8 April 2008
By Ursula Löwe, Austrian Road Safety Board, Vienna
The AdRisk Project
The Community Action on Adolescents and Injury Risk (AdRisk) responds to the call from the European Commission´s Public Health Programme for an integrated approach to reduce the injury risk and risk taking behaviour among adolescents aged 15-24 years.
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Context
AdRisk shall Supplement existing activities Integrate and work closely with existing
networks Fill gaps in knowledge and expertise Translate existing expertise and
complement for effective approaches on youth, risk behaviour and injury prevention
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Focus on Risk taking behaviour
AdRisk should work on aspects that are not yet covered by other projects:
Injury prevention with a focus on the specific risk factors for youth, such as risk taking behaviour.
This is the innovative aspect.
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Results and deliverables
Reports and documents • European Situation Analysis report • Good practice guide• Strategy recommendations• Toolbox and media to reduce the injury risk among young people
Official launch of deliverables: August 2008
Available on website: www.adrisk.eu.com
National partnership Working together with Youth for a safer Europe
National partnership
AdRisk also collaborates with key national actors to initiate national action and to develop a European network on adolescents/ injury prevention/ risk competence
National activities shall be initiated in
cooperation with key stakeholders Working together to make Europe a safer place
Organization and framing
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WP 1Coordination
KfVVienna
WP 2Dissemination
ULSS 20VERONA
WP 3Evaluation
NCHCA Budapest
WP 4SituationAnalysis
KTLHelsinki
WP 5Strategy
KfVVienna
WP 6Tools
CSIAmsterdam
Frame: Eurosafe network
Philosophy
Many of the prevention programmes aimed at adolescents are repressive failing to involve the target group in a constructive way.
Young people should be viewed as a resource to solve problems.
Key issues: life skill development, resilience
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Risk taking is a challenge
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for the development of an adult personality
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Key issues: risk competence, coping with risk
Risk taking behaviour
Risk taking behaviour is normative for this age group
Risk taking is a necessary condition for personal experience, development of life competence
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Risk taking behaviour
There is evidence that risk taking behaviour is associated with injuries; the more different types of risk taking behaviour shown by a young person – the higher the risk of injuries
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Communication with Youth
Knowledge about possible consequences of risky behaviour does not necessarily diminish the risk taking behaviour
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Working with youth
Policies and measures focus generally on enforcement, legislation, restrictions and engineering
New: working with youth (and not only for them) - promoting self competence on
base of own experiences Working together to make Europe a safer place
Balancing the handling of risk
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Not minimising
Risk competence
Risk competence leads to:
Adequate estimation of situations Perception of own mental and physical state Appropriate decisions in risky situations Development of alternative behaviours Reflection of experience and integration with former
experiences (break) Prevention of injuries Working
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Transfer toimplementation
Where to start ?
Different levels Risk education Risk and Lifeskill training Campaigning Tools and media on risk taking behaviour
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Tools and Media
This workshop aims at presenting and discussing innovative tools and media to address youth and risk behaviour
Goals : to exchange, further development and transfer of experiences into further programmes and projets
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