TRIP - Testing in Recreational-settings prevention-Interventions addressed to Polydrug-users

TRIP aims to develop at transnational level a prevention and harm reduction approach targeted to the combined use of licit and illicit substances (poly-drug use) by young people in recreational settings, including the finalization of theoretically and empirically validated guidelines for harm reduction and prevention project building and tools for monitoring the project effectiveness and assessing the short-term impact of the interventions delivered. TRIP also aims to further develop the experience and knowledge collected during the project “Prevention of poly-drugs addiction and reduction of drug-related harms programs for young people in recreational settings” - JLS/ DPIP/2007-2/001 where the same TRIP partnership studied 20 EU good practices in prevention and harm reduction projects in recreational settings by empirically operationalize and test the knowledge, the methodologies and the tools previously just theoretically developed.

The TRIP partnership will work at transnational level on the definition of a common baseline transnational prevention and harm reduction project framework and then the Scottish and Italian partners will work on a local level for the contextualisation and final definition of the LOCAL-TRIP prevention and harm reduction projects involving all the relevant local stakedholders. To support the LOCAL-TRIP projects in Italy and Scotland the relevant monitoring and assessing tools and methodologies will be finalized in order to permit the on-going monitoring of the effectiveness and the short-term impact assessment. The effectiveness monitoring tool to be used is the set of indicators developed by the partnership in the previous project, that is going to be now empirically tested and validated. The short-term impact assessment methodology will be defined by the Danish partner after a scientific literature review, empirically tested in the LOCAL-TRIP projects and then scientifically validated by experts in 3 focus groups. The LOCAL-TRIP projects will be developed in selected recreational settings in Lombardy and Fife by Coop. Alchimia and NHS Fife. After the empirical testing of the project building guidelines, of the tools and methodologies for effectiveness monitoring and short-term impact assessment there will be a process of validation through focus groups with international experts. The main deliverable to be produced is a multilanguage manual translated in English, Italian, French, German and Spanish that will include theoretically and empirically validated guidelines on how to build, manage, monitor and assess a prevention and harm reduction project addressed to polydrug users in recreational settings.

Multilanguage manual of guidelines in drug prevention and harm reduction project building. The manual will be finalized to be clear, simple to use and very practical as it is mainly thought to support the work of professionals that work in the field of prevention and harm reduction interventions for young people in recreational settings. The manual will be published in 800 copies and a CD-ROM with all the tools for effectiveness monitoring and short-term impact assessment will be finalised and attached to the manual. The main dissemination outputs are going to be the final conference in Italy and the final seminar in Brussels where the final results will be reported to the EC. Beneficiaries of the activities and outputs foreseen are European public managers, researchers, psychologists, social operators involved in the field of prevention and harm reduction interventions addressed to polydrug users in recreational settings.

A TRIP into Bolgia video
Final conference Dentro e fuori la notte video