October 19, 2020 San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca the first to join from Argentina The region of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca in the northwestern part of Argentina is the first Planet Youth partner in Argentina. Catamarca joins a growing number of municipalities in Europe, Australia and America from Canada in the north […]
September 2, 2020 Chile won‘t let the Pandemic stop their „Elige vivir sin drogas“ The newspaper El Mercurio in Chile interviewed Carlos Charme the Director of SENDA (Service for Drug and Alcohol Prevention and Rehabilitation) August 31 on the difficult situation due to the COVID pandemic in 2020 and the project „Elige vivir sin drogas“. Marijuana-use among […]
March 18, 2020 Inspirations from the world – the 6th Planet Youth Conference The sixth Planet Youth Conference took place in Reykjavik Iceland on the 4th to 6th of March. The event was set in the beautiful location of Grand Hotel Reykjavik, with a view over both sea and mountains on the cold but sunny […]
January 20, 2020 The first County to implement Planet Youth in Canada Lanark County in Ontario became the first county to launch the Planet Youth model for substance-use prevention in youth in Canada. The launch took place on January 20 in Carleton Place. The Planet Youth Lanark County (PYLC) is collaborating with the Catholic District School Board […]
May 10, 2019 Official launch of the Chilean project A delegation from ICSRA was in Chile the week from May 6-10 to launch the project Elige Vivir Sin Drogas, based on the Planet Youth method. The project is intended to reduce the substance use of Chilean youth with a similar methodology as ICSRA decreased substance […]
April 3, 2019 President of Chile announces the cooperation with Planet Youth in Chile The president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, announced the cooperation with Planet Youth on the 1st of April 2019 in a formal announcement on TV. The president spoke about the grave situation that children and adolescents in Chile are at the forefront […]
March 25, 2019 Mosaic article about Planet Youth on their fifth anniversary The journalist Emma Young from Mosaic interviewed our directors, Jon Sigfusson and Inga Dora Sigfusdottir, in the end of February 2019 to catch up with them and to check out how Planet Youth had evolved since her groundbreaking article: „Iceland knows how to […]
January 16, 2019 Planet Youth Seminar in Stockholm on February the 6th Seminar on the Icelandic model will be held in Stockholm on the 6th of February 2019. In Iceland, the use of alcohol and other drugs among young people has fallen very sharply over the past 20 years, from among the highest levels in […]
November 16, 2018 ICSRA speaks at Seimas, the Lithuanian Parliament A delegation from ICSRA spoke on a special meeting in the Lithuanian Parliament on the 16th of November about Planet Youth, the Icelandic method and what can be done to restrain substance use among young people. The meeting was organized by the the Nordic Council […]
October 5, 2018 Members from the Chilean government received PlanetYouth experts earlier this week and want to adopt the prevention model The Chilean government plans to implement the PlanetYouth drug prevention model in various cities and municipalities in Chile during the course of next years. Three experts from PlanetYouth (ICSRA) met with the Chilean minister […]
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