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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 11 Hansard (6 November) . . Page.. 3809 ..

MR STEFANIAK (continuing):

Program: National initiatives in Drug Education (NIDE).

Funding Source: Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health

01 July 1995 to 30 June 1996 $5,500

01 July 1996 to 30 June 1997 $36,000

01 July 1997 - current $50,400

Total funding for this project is $91,900

Funding for this project will no longer continue.

Administration Department of Education and Training.

Workshop duration Workshops ran for one day after which action plans were devised and implemented.

Description Teachers were informed of recently developed drug

education teaching resources which were provided to each

school and are in line with the Harm Minimisation approach

now adopted nationally.

Number of participants Eighty three government schools teachers were inserviced during 1996.

Twenty three government schools teachers have been inserviced to this point in 1997.

Grants In 1997 grants were provided directly to 11 government

secondary schools and five Catholic secondary schools with

money shared co-operatively between independent schools to

develop sustainable and relevant drug education programs.

The goals of the National Initiatives in Drug Education are:

. to promote the importance of drug education in schools through an integrated information strategy targeted at principals, administrators, teachers, the school community and the wider community;

. to increase teachers' knowledge and skill level in teaching drug education;

. to increase knowledge of parents and the community about young peoples' use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs and to suggest strategies for action;

. to assist schools in the development and implementation of a drug education program which is manageable and sustainable;

. to encourage whole schools and school community support for drug education in schools.

Evaluation was carried out by the National Centre for Research into the Prevention of Drug Abuse (NCRPDA) for which a final report was completed at the end of September. The Department provided staff support toward the evaluation of the NIDE project.

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