Seminar on Adaptation of the Icelandic Model for the Prevention of Drug Use: progress three years after its implementation

Since 2018, the University of Chile has been accompanying the adaptation and implementation of the Icelandic Prevention Model in 6 communes of the Metropolitan Region of Chile, through collaborative work with the municipalities of Colina, Lo Barnechea, Las Condes, Melipilla , Peñalolén and Renca, and the FONIS Project N ° SA19I0152 “Acceptability, feasibility and effectiveness of a model for the prevention of substance use in adolescents”, of the National Research and Development Agency - ANID.

This seminar has been organized by the prevention team of the Addiction Unit of the University Psychiatric Clinic belonging to the Clinical Hospital of the University of Chile and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile and is being sponsored by ISSUP-Chile.

This seminar, aimed at technicians and professionals who work in the field of substance use, seeks to share the results and the experience of adaptation and implementation of the Icelandic prevention model in 6 Chilean communes, in addition to addressing the challenges of considering this model as a public policy.

Presenters:

• Representatives of the prevention teams of the municipalities of Colina, Lo Barnechea, Las Condes, Melipilla, Peñalolén and Renca.
• Nicolás Libuy, psychiatrist and researcher of the FONIS project
• Patricia Ross, Regional Representative for Spain and Latin America of Planet Youth, of the Icelandic Center for Research and Social Analysis (ICSRA)
• Rodrigo Torres, Chief Choose to Live without Drugs, National Service for the Prevention and Rehabilitation of Drug and Alcohol Consumption (SENDA)
• Matías Irarrázaval, Consultant Pan American Health Organization, former Head of Mental Health, Ministry of Health
• Guillermo Paraje, Associate Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
• Viviana Guajardo, psychiatrist and researcher of the FONIS project

Organisers:             Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile

                               University Psychiatric Clinic, Clinical Hospital of the University of Chile

Sponsors:            National Research and Development Agency, FONIS

                                ISSUP - Chile

PROGRAMME

Tuesday, August 31, 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

08:30 - 08:45 Welcome

08:45 - 09:15 Advances of the FONIS study: Acceptability, feasibility and effectiveness of a model for the prevention of substance use in adolescents. Mr. Nicolás Libuy, researcher of the FONIS project

09:15 - 10:15 Innovative community practices: Municipality of Renca, Peñalolén and Las Condes

10:15 - 10:30 Pause

10:30 - 11:30 Innovative community practices: Municipality of Colina, Melipilla and Lo Barnechea

11:30 - 12:00 Round of questions to community representatives

12:00 - 12:45 Round table: Challenges for public policies. Ms. Patricia Ross, Regional Representative for Spain and Latin America of Planet Youth, of the Icelandic Center for Research and Social Analysis (ICSRA) Mr. Rodrigo Torres, Chief Choose to Live without Drugs, National Service for the Prevention and Rehabilitation of Drug and Alcohol Consumption (SENDA) Mr. Guillermo Paraje, Associate Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Mr. Matías Irarrázaval, Consultant, Pan American Health Organization, former Head of Mental Health, Ministry of Health Moderator: Viviana Guajardo, researcher of the FONIS project