About Unplugged

The programme curriculum named "Unplugged" which was evaluated in phase I was created by a team of European public health practitioners and researchers known as the EU-Dap Intervention Planning Group. The programme is based on the Comprehensive Social Influence Model and aims for universal prevention. Comprehensive Social Influence programmes combine life skills education with normative education and knowledge acquisition on substances

Universal prevention refers to activities aiming to avoid or delay the use of substances by all youths, irrespective of their background risk profile. The assumption of universal prevention is that it is important to reduce the whole bulk of new users.
The "Unplugged" curriculum consists in 12 one-hour lessons, administered by school teachers, trained in a specific training session.

According to the new structure, the 12 lessons are:

1. Opening Unplugged
2. To be or not to be in a group
3. Choices – Alcohol, Risk and Protection
4. Your beliefs, norms and information – do they reflect reality?
5. Smoking the cigarette drug – Inform yourself
6. Express yourself
7. Get up, stand up
8. Party tiger
9. Drugs - Get informed
10. Coping competences
11. Problem solving and decision making
12. Goal setting

The student’s workbook, newly developed, is intended as a personal workbook of the student, and contains activities that students are to work through during the Unplugged units.

Apart from the revision of the Unplugged materials, a new appealing graphic version was developed, and the new program, together with the student workbook and the cards, is freely available.