Gliederung

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Data collection/ monitoring of prevention in
Austria Sabine Haas Gesundheit Österreich
GmbH/Geschäftsbereich ÖBIG
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Structure of prevention in Austria
National level Ministry of health ( Federal
Ministry of Health, Family and Youth) general
responsibility for prevention at federal level
funding of networking activities Ministry of
education ( Federal Ministry for Education,
Culture and Art) prevention in schools Ministry
of youth ( Federal Ministry of Health, Family
and Youth) prevention for youth outside of
schools Ministry of Defense prevention in armed
forces Fonds Healthy Austria funding of
prevention (evaluation is obligatory)
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Structure of prevention in Austria
Regional level According to allocation of
rights and duties between federal and regional
level the nine Bundesländer (provinces) have
the main responsibility in the social and health
field Therefore important role for
implementation and funding of (addiction)
prevention In order to face this responsibility
all nine provinces established regional addiction
prevention centres which fulfil a key role in the
field of prevention
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Addiction Prevention Centres
Specialised agencies in charge of initiating,
developing (implementation of pilot projects),
counselling and coaching of local and regional
programmes/activities plus provision of training
for multipliers and practitioners (teachers,
youth workers ...) Main task to raise the
professional standard and to ensure quality of
addiction prevention measures Austrian-wide
networking in the Working Group for Addiction
Prevention (ARGE Suchtvorbeugung), annual
conference, common projects
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NFP Networking

• Close co-operation with addiction prevention
  centres
• Intensive contacts during establishment of the
  NFP and co-ordination of EDPW 1998
• Regular meeting once a year with the network
• Participation in the annual conference
• On-going contacts with individual centres
• Constant co-operation with ministry of health,
  regular contacts with other ministries (e.g.
  Federal Drug Forum)

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National Report

• Official request for input to regional
  addiction/drug co-ordinations and addiction
  prevention centres every Spring ? they provide
  written information
• Consultation of annual reports of activities of
  the addiction prevention centres
• Consultation of websites of addiction
  prevention centres
• Request for more detailed information on
  specific activities (pilot project, evaluation
  etc.)

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Tables Questionnaires

• MUSTAP sent out to addiction prevention centres
  with request for provision of data/information
• Structured Questionnaires
• Draft prepared either with group of experts or by
  NFP based on available information
• Draft sent to relevant experts (addiction
  prevention centres, ministries ...) for feedback
• Revised/consolidated consensus-document
  provided to EMCDDA

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Best practice/EDDRA

• NFP contacts projects that meet criteria
  (evaluation etc.) and proposes EDDRA entry to
  them
• Preparation of EDDRA questionnaire in close
  co-operation with persons in charge of project
• Presentation of all EDDRA projects in our
  newsletter DrugNet Austria and in the National
  Report incentive for projects
• Training on filling in of EDDRA questionnaire
  and planning of evaluation for practitioners in
  order to promote evaluation and to improve
  quality of EDDRA information