Teachers Work to Prevent Youth Drug Use
During the academic year 2006-2007, the Ministry of Public Education will distribute countrywide 20,000 copies of the Drug Use Prevention Manual for Teachers of Secondary Schools, developed with support from the USAID-funded Drug Demand Reduction Program (DDRP). It is the first book of its kind in the country. The manual will be used by secondary school teachers across the country to prevent initiation of drug use among Uzbekistan’s youth.
Work on the development of the manual began in 2004, when the USAID-supported program signed a cooperative agreement with the Ministries of Public Education and Higher and Secondary Special Education of Uzbekistan and the Ibn Sino International Foundation. DDRP participated in the preparation of the text, piloted the manual in several schools, and was responsible for its publishing. The USAID-funded program will also support further teacher trainings to assist the introduction of the new manual in schools. DDRP is implemented in part by the Population Services International.
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DDRP specialists actively participated in the development of the Drug Prevention
Manual for Teachers of Secondary Schools
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