Toolbox

Children 0-14:

ECSA, Action Planning for Child Safety: a strategic and coordinated approach to reducing the number one cause of death for children in Europe (2010): View PDF

ECSA, Child Safety Good Practice Guide (2006): View PDF

ECSA,  Factsheets on:

Adolescents:

EuroSafe, Guide for initiating national action on adolescents and injury prevention in Europe (2007) View PDF

Youth Road Safety Action Kit. This is a guide available to all young people around the world and aims to make road safety accessible to youth everywhere. View PDF here

Split the Risk: Questionnaire for pupils, Research method to gather information on how young people perceive injury prevention and risk taking behaviour. It can serve as a starting point for national or regional campaign development and can be used with other tools in this toolbox such as the Evaluation method and Talking with adolescents – Hungary.
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Split the Risk: MTV proposal for TV items,  Presentation by MTV of the format framework for the TV items to be developed for the campaign “Split the Risk”
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Split the Risk: Evaluation method for talking with adolescents. Conclusions and recommendations of talks with adolescents carried out in five schools on the subject of risk taking behaviour,  part of the development of the Dutch Split the Risk campaign. The research method was – in an adjusted manner - also conducted in Hungary.
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Talking with adolescents : Hungary. Results from the adaptation of the Dutch research method in Hungary.  The Hungarian National Center for Health Care Audit and Inspection adjusted the research method of Talking to adolescents to the Hungarian situation and gained more information about what young people see as risk taking behaviour.
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Split the Risk: Campaign concept. Presentation of communication agency on concept developed for the campaign.
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Split the Risk: Briefing Communication Agency 2007. An example of a briefing to a communication agency with the assignment to formulate a concept that is appealing to young people.
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Art based empowerment : what is the artist's role in preventive youth work?  Health prevention method that enables young people to assess risks and make healthy choices in life, using the artistic and creative process as a way to gain empowerment, awareness, and learning to overcome obstacles.

The artistic process is a process of creating and shaping. “Art based empowerment” wants to open up various aspects of the creative process used by artists to young people. Providing this, does not make every young person want to be an artist in its narrow traditional meaning (e.g. become a painter or a sculptor). Art based empowerment wants be understood in an art context the way that everyone has got his or her own creative potential to use and shape their own lives.

Art –a process of awareness and action- can be the tool for young people to find different ways and experiment with various strategies to deal with their own self within the environment that surrounds them. Art and the creative process can therefore also be used in prevention.
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This is me, Programme aimed at the development of positive self-image of young people, providing information and support to adolescents on their way to adulthood and helping them solve problems. It is focused upon the development of positive self-image, and seen as the main source of support during the process of growing up.

"This is me" offers young people information in the field of personal growth, love, sex, growing up dilemmas and problems of teenagers. Young people can also post questions in an online forum.

This tool provides a detailed description of the programme: prevention workshops in schools, web communication and online counselling. It can be used by health professionals as an example on how to communicate and empower adolescents:
About the Health Promotion Programme
Workshop Guidance

Dos and Don'ts in communication and participation with young people. Overview of the dos and don’ts in communication with young people and how to let them participate in your project. This document was produced by the Consumer Safety Institute and is based on research done for the 'Split the Risk' campaign. It can be useful for other public health institutes developing national campaigns or projects aimed at young people.
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