‘Chillout nights’ is a new and specific method for working with youth. It turned out as a best practice. Youth street workers on a program Choose yourself which deals with negative consequences of alcohol use among young people, gather at the main square of capital city of Slovenia every friday night and work with young people who are drinking there before they go to clubs.
A peer exchange is a great way to share knowledge across organization and countries. There is a lot of great work being done in lots of different areas and creating a pool of skills, knowledge and best practice.
This guide should help you in deciding if a peer exchange is right for you and your organization, what to consider as a host or as an organization sending peer(s) and how to select a peer. We also prepare for you peer exchange form for collecting all important data from peers before exchange and short questionnaire.
Peer Exchange Form and Questionnaire
Portugal is know for being a country with innovative drug laws. Until 2000, the posession and consumption of any drug was considered ilegal and even a crime. Finally, in 2000, consumption and posession for comsumption were legally separeted from posession for traffic. Read more
See where all the organisations are from that are active with Connecting PINS Unity is one of the organisations involved in the Connecting PINS project. It was established in 1996 in Amsterdam as a drugs and alcohol harm reduction project. An important part of projects like Unity is to keep people informed about the activities it does. Carl-Cyril co-authored a piece about some of the international efforts Unity undertakes.
By meeting in exchanges like this, you can clearly see how different organizations can be, but you also immediately notice the many similarities. The biggest similarity is surely how open-minded, unprejudiced and involved in the community everyone is. After the meetings in Paris, our minds were full of new ideas and plans and we were inspired to improve our work in the Netherlands.