Drug Strategy Community Initiatives Fund (DSCIF) Funded Projects - National

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• A Drug Prevention Strategy for Canada's Youth
• Drug Buzz
• Understanding the link between cannabis use and early psychosis: An awareness strategy for youth at risk
• Youth to Youth Drug Prevention Project

A Drug Prevention Strategy for Canada's Youth

Organization: Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse

Contact Information:
Mr. Michel Perron
Chief Executive Officer
Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
500-75 Albert Street
Ottawa, ON K1P 5E7
Telephone: 613-235-4048
Email: mperron@ccsa.ca
Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse Web site

Description

"A Drug Prevention Strategy for Canada's Youth" is a five-year project that would allow for the development of a national illegal drug prevention strategy, targeted at children and youth aged 10 to 24. The funding supports the creation of three main deliverables that are designed to reach youth, their parents and community/school-based groups that leverages action from all levels of government, service providers, the not-for-profit sector, national organizations and the private sector: (1) a consortium of national media corporations and organizations to promote positive and healthy life choices for youth; (2) a set of national standards for the delivery of prevention programs for community, schools, families and special populations; and (3) the creation of sustainable partnerships to sustain the implementation of the project's deliverables.

Drug Buzz

Organization: The Students Commission of Canada

Contact Information:
Ms. Stephanie Clark
The Students Commission of Canada
23 Isabella Street
Toronto, ON M4Y 1M7
Telephone: 416-597-8297
Fax: 416-597-0661
Email: steph@tgmag.ca

Description
Partnering with the McCreary Centre Society (British Columbia), the provincial government and the public health system, British Columbia's school districts, University of Waterloo's School Health Action, Planning and Evaluation System (SHAPES), and youth councils and high schools across Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario, this national 26-month school-based Drug Buzz project will engage young people in spreading accurate knowledge about illicit drugs to their peers in informal ways in order to prevent and to reduce the use of illicit drugs among Canadian youth.

Understanding the link between cannabis use and early psychosis: An awareness strategy for youth at risk

Organization: Schizophrenia Society of Canada

Contact Information:
Ms. Catherine Willinsky
Manager of National Programs and Projects
Schizophrenia Society of Canada
50 Acadia Avenue, Suite 205
Markham, ON L3R 0B3
Telephone: 416-405-9564
Fax: 416-405-9586
Email: willinskyc@schizophrenia.ca

Description
In partnership with the Sun Life Financial Chair in Adolescent Mental Health, Canadian Association for School Health, Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse and other key youth-oriented organizations, this national 34-month project will enhance understanding of the reasons why youth at-risk of psychosis use cannabis and increase awareness among youth and the community of the impacts of illicit cannabis use and its linkages to the occurrence of psychosis.

Youth to Youth Drug Prevention Project

Organization: Leave Out Violence (L.O.V.E.)

Contact Information:
Ms. Lana Feinstein
Director of Development
L.O.V.E.
212-3130 Bathurst Street
Toronto, ON M6A 2A1
Telephone: 416-785-8411 extension 27
Fax: 416-785-1236
Email: lana@leaveoutviolence.com
Leave Out Violence Web site

Description
In partnership with the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health (CAMH), Camp White Pine, the Aids Coalition of Nova Scotia, the Riverside School Board of Saint-Lambert (Quebec), the Ontario Investors Group, the Toronto Broadway Youth Resource Centre and the Montreal Marymount Academy, this national 22-month project will facilitate strategic community education about the effects and impact of illicit drugs thereby reducing their use among Canadian youth through the influence of peers' based education.