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	<title>Mentor United Kingdom- Protecting Children From Alcohol and Drugs</title>
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	<description>Mentor is a national charity that stops alcohol and drugs from ruining young lives. We help schools, parents and local groups to protect our children</description>
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		<title>First Mentor Youth – London Seminar: 15 February 2 – 4 pm</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hillary Box</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hosted by passionate young people who’ve looked in detail at the quality of drugs and substance misuse education in schools and now want to share their findings. The afternoon will be a stimulating and creative couple of hours highlighting the extraordinary achievements of young Londoners. It will include a film made by the young people, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Missed Opportunity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Brown our Director of Programmes blogs about Education and Prevention and what he hopes to see in the year ahead.  Why intervene early? The government’s drug strategy focuses on treating drug users.  Effective treatment is essential – but the case for intervening much earlier is unarguable. By the time a problematic drug user is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tip Top: Drugs Policy in Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Brown (Director of Programmes) sets out his practical tips for schools to improve schools approach to drugs.  The Department for Education and Association of Chief Police Officers have produced a guidance document for schools which aims to help them think through what they can and should do to manage incidents and develop school policy. The Drug Education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A quarter of us are worried about local alcohol and drug use</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hillary Box</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quarter of English citizens think people being drunk, or dealing or using drugs in their area is a very or fairly big problem, the latest  data from the Home Office shows.  Public levels of concern haven&#8217;t moved over 12 months. “Given widespread concern about local neighbourhoods, it&#8217;s amazing that only 0.04% of the £95 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>£10,000 from Ansvar</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hillary Box</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leading ethical insurers Ansvar have announced that they&#8217;ll be supporting us in 2012 &#8211; we&#8217;d like to thank them for a great start to the year.]]></description>
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		<title>Social Norms &#8211; nudges towards better health decisions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The theory of using social norms to influence behaviours, particularly in health, but also more widely, has become increasingly influential in recent years.  Ministers in the current government have spoken warmly about introducing the approach as part of their public health strategies, and the Prime Minister has set up a unit in Cabinet Office with a remit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drug use by Scotland&#8217;s teens continues to fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hillary Box</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The downward trend in drug and alcohol use amongst 13 and 15 year olds in Scotland continues according to the Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey 2010 of nearly 40,000 13 and 15-year olds. Heather McVeigh, Mentor Scotland, said: Excellent news for all of us who work in prevention. We know there&#8217;s much more to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Drug Prevention Standards</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mentor is delighted that the EMCDDA have published the first set of European Drug Prevention Standards.   The standards were developed by researchers at Liverpool John Moores University alongside colleagues from across Europe. The manual offers a comprehensive guide for programme developers and prevention practitioners. Built around the drug prevention project cycle there are chapters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Wanna Be Elected</title>
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		<comments>http://www.mentoruk.org.uk/2011/12/i-wanna-be-elected/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mentor is pleased to announce that our Director of Programmes, Andrew Brown, has been elected to the Supervisory Board of the European Society for Prevention Research (EUSPR). The elections took place at the EUSPR conference in Lisbon, where over 100 prevention scientists and practitioners gathered to reflect on the state of prevention research and debate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebound</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mentor is proud to be a partner of REBOUND, a prevention project for 14-18 year olds. REBOUND is about cooperative learning. It’s based on resilience theory and draws on different methods, based on real life experiences, for making decisions about drugs and alcohol. The project is led by Dr. Henrik Jungaberle from the Institute of [...]]]></description>
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