Women´s session: National policy with local implementation - gender specific challenge for drug prevention  

15.00 Welcome

15.05 New Actions for women´s right of good health, Maj-Inger Klingvall, President of WOCAD/KSAN

15.15 -16.30 Meeting at crossroads, basement floors or cyber space –

- examples of how to implement early drug preventive methods among young girls to prolongue set on age, and how to build international network and cooperation for this –and how to build awarness and training for interactive methods to  resist aggressive targeted  marketing of alcohol and other drugs to girls and women –and

- experiences of local development works in drug prevention through co-operation with international network for women in order to form the national policies to serve girls and women´s health and well being

- BellaNet international -from basement floor to EU:S Top Ten Story, Britt Fredenman, Project leader, WOCAD/KSAN Sweden

- Stewards of children, Sigriour Björnsdottir, NGO Blatt afram, Iceland

– How to implement prevention programs for local and national needs, Helena Palojärvi, Director, NGO Women together Against Addictions, Finland

- Why to support a new project focusing on girls, Frida Nylund, NGO Martha förbundet, Finland

- When the national policies fail – Help your self – Rita Nielsen, Retretten, Norge
 

 

 

NordAN´s womens section was formed in 2006 by Sweden’s KSAN  (Women’s Organisations Committee on Alcohol and Drugs Issues) and Finland’s Naistenkartano R.y (Women Together Against Addictions) to encourage voluntary organisations to commit themselves more deeply towards issues pertaining to girls’ and women’s misuse and abuse of alcohol, addictive pharmaceuticals and drugs.

Goals of women´s section are:

• influence attitudes and values regarding girl’s and women’s abuse and potential for treatment;

• influence decision-makers in the Nordic Countries, the Baltic States and the rest of Europe such that resources are made available for research and preventive initiatives in this field;

• stimulate interest in women’s abuse issues among groups that have not previously been involved in work of this nature;

• increase exchanges and cooperation between various players in the Nordic countries and the Baltic States to stimulate increased gender-specific, gender-sensitive initiatives for girls and women in the combat against alcohol and drugs;

• create a joint strategy for NordAN’s work in alcohol and drug issues from a women’s perspective.