UNODC Friends in Focus Brochure

Active youth engagement is not only beneficial for the community or society; it also benefits the participating youths themselves, through their own growth, learning, and self-realization. And this is why UNODC is preparing the Friends in Focus initiative.

With Friends in Focus, young people learn about preventive thinking for themselves and how they can disseminate it amongst their friends. Peer trainers will be trained to deliver multiple sessions to a group of peers, who will then have similar interactions with their friends. The sessions will be interactive in nature, and help youths to recognize risk and protective factors to drug use, critically reflect on information about drugs from media, think about normative beliefs, support them in helping their friends, set goals, etc.

For a printable version of the Friends in Focus brochure, click here to download.